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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/5/2018 1:06 PM, Julia Kreger
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<div>*removes all of the hats*</div>
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<div>*removes years of dust from unrelated event planning hat,
and puts it on for a moment*<br>
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<div>In my experience, events of any nature where convention
venue space is involved, are essentially set in stone before
being publicly advertised as contracts are put in place for
hotel room booking blocks as well as the convention venue
space. These spaces are also typically in a relatively high
demand limiting the access and available times to schedule.
Often venues also give preference (and sometimes even better
group discounts) to repeat events as they are typically a
known entity and will have somewhat known needs so the venue
and hotel(s) can staff appropriately. <br>
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<div>tl;dr, I personally wouldn't expect any changes to be
possible at this point.<br>
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<div>*removes event planning hat of past life, puts personal
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<div>I imagine that as a community, it is near impossible to
schedule something avoiding holidays for everyone in the
community.<br>
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<div>I personally have lost count of the number of holidays and
special days that I've spent on business trips over the past
four years. While I may be an out-lier in my feelings on this
subject, I'm not upset, annoyed, or even bitter about lost
times. This community is part of my family.<br>
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Agreed.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:19 AM Dmitry Tantsur
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Not sure how official the information about the next summit
is, but it's on the <br>
web site [1], so I guess worth asking..<br>
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Are we planning for the summit to overlap with the May
holidays? The 1st of May <br>
is a holiday in big part of the world. We ask people to skip
it in addition to <br>
3+ weekend days they'll have to spend working and traveling.<br>
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To make it worse, 1-3 May are holidays in Russia this time. To
make it even <br>
worse than worse, the week of 29th is the Golden Week in Japan
[2]. Was it <br>
considered? Is it possible to move the days to less
conflicting time (mid-May <br>
maybe)?<br>
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Someone else had raised the fact that this also appears to overlap
with Pycon and wondered if the date could be changed. I told them
the same thing. Once these things are announced they are, more or
less, an immovable object.<br>
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[1] <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/</a><br>
[2] <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_%28Japan%29"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)</a><br>
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