Re: [Debconf-team] Job fair timing and sponsorship criteria
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> wrote:
> I know I'm late to this, but having the arrival day on Friday is
> usually problematic from people travelling from far away: It requires
> taking basically an extra half week from work (Thursday+Friday) to
> arrive on time (and the equivalent on teardown+flyback day). IIRC, we
> have usually (read usually as in: "where I've been more closely
> involved in scheduling") had Saturday as arrival day, and then start
> activities on Sunday. Likewise for departure, finish activities on
> Saturday and cover sponsored accomodation until Sunday, having most
> people depart on Sunday.
I understand where these concerns are coming from. I used to live in
Argentina, so I totally understand the problem. However, I also know
that the further away you are, the less significant the exact day of
the week on which the conference starts, as cheap flights are normally
on weekdays, not weekends, and if possible most people don't cross the
Atlantic for just one week...
Whatever the case, I'd like to note that we've been discussing the
schedule since September or so last year, there was a lot of feedback
that was taken into account and accommodated. But nobody had brought
this up until now. And we had just called it final last week... I'm
very reluctant to now go revisiting the schedule, not because it's not
possible, but because we want to move on to other stuff. The constant
revisiting of decisions already taken is very frustrating, energy
consuming and de-motivating.
> Well, DebConf is announced as starting on Saturday 15th and finishing
> on Saturday 22th, so... it *could* be understood that the first
> activities will be held Saturday morning.
Yes, this is the schedule that we had agreed (as I said, after a lot
of discussion and feedback from lots of teams). Arrival day on Friday,
start on Saturday. The information page has been updated to include
Friday as arrival day.
> Dunno... I'd start gentle
> and have the first activities on Saturday afternoon, in consideration
> for people who cannot travel on Friday (i.e. within Europe) or have to
> do a long distance flight (i.e. rest of the world)
I would rather we didn't do this, but whoever does the talk scheduling
could maybe take this into account.
>> This could be done *in addition* of moving the job fair to Sunday,
>> if those responsible for the job fair and scheduling deem it
>> appropriate.
>
> It would be sensible, I'm for moving it. And yes, as it has been
> pointed out, one extra day does not completely dillute jetlag... But
> the effect on those who suffer it is much less shattering.
We've already told quite a bunch of sponsors that the Job Fair is on
Saturday, so I would rather we didn't change it now.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, doing it on Sunday has disadvantages as well.
--
Besos,
Marga
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