Flock 2014 Dates?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:43:03AM +0800, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 01/08/2014 09:14 AM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
> > Here's good. The biggest things we've been considering: 
> > 
> > - date proximity to other conferences (in a good way: GUADEC, in a bad
> > way, things not nearby)
> > 
> > - Flock was always meant to be more tied to the release cycle, which has
> > been proving challenging
> 
> Conflicts:
> 
> OSCON is July 20 - July 24
> GUADEC is July 26 - Aug 1 (Strasbourg, France)
> Kernel Summit is August 18 - 20 (Chicago, IL)
> LinuxCon NA is August 20 - 22 (Chicago, IL)
> 
> These facts alone, combined with the limitations of our venue in Prague
> (we need to leverage their summer vacation) mean that these are the best
> available weekend dates:
> 
> July 11-14
> August 1-4
> August 8-11
> 
> Of those three, I think the latter two are better options. I lean
> towards the August 8-11 option, but I'd like to know how the GNOME
> people feel about that, since I think Flock would greatly benefit from
> increased participation from that group. It also gives us a bit more
> time to put it all together.

Steve Gallagher forwarded this on to the Workstation group to gather
some input there.  Since GUADEC ends August 1, though, it seems to me
August 8-11 makes for rather a long and expensive trip for those
coming from the USA.

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