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On 11/5/2018 1:06 PM, Julia Kreger wrote:
> *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.
>
Agreed.
> -Julia
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:19 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com 
> <mailto: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)?
>
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.
>
>     Dmitry
>
>     [1] https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/
>     [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_%28Japan%29>
>
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