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*removes all of the hats*

*removes years of dust from unrelated event planning hat, and puts it on
for a moment*

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.

tl;dr, I personally wouldn't expect any changes to be possible at this
point.

*removes event planning hat of past life, puts personal scheduling hat on*

I imagine that as a community, it is near impossible to schedule something
avoiding holidays for everyone in the community.

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.

-Julia

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:19 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Not sure how official the information about the next summit is, but it's
> on the
> web site [1], so I guess worth asking..
>
> Are we planning for the summit to overlap with the May holidays? The 1st
> of May
> is a holiday in big part of the world. We ask people to skip it in
> addition to
> 3+ weekend days they'll have to spend working and traveling.
>
> To make it worse, 1-3 May are holidays in Russia this time. To make it
> even
> worse than worse, the week of 29th is the Golden Week in Japan [2]. Was it
> considered? Is it possible to move the days to less conflicting time
> (mid-May
> maybe)?
>
> Dmitry
>
> [1] https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)
>
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