Re: Minutes of the board meeting of June 24, 2019

2019-07-09 Thread mcatanzaro

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:42 AM, meg ford  wrote:
Yeah, I’m wondering why LAS is going to be in Europe. Is it being 
co-hosted with a KDE event? Will it be held with GINA? I’m happy it 
won’t be in the US because travel here, etc, is not good right now. 
But it’s also too bad that we’ll lose our remaining North 
American GNOME event.


Oh, I misread and thought GUADEC. Don't mind me! Those dates seem 
reasonable for LAS.


I agree with Meg that it would be a bit sad to lose our only North 
America event indeed (especially since it only occurs every second 
year), but I guess events happen where people are willing to host 
them


Michael


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Re: Minutes of the board meeting of June 24, 2019

2019-07-09 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi,

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Florian Müllner  wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, 16:43 ,  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM, Philip Chimento via foundation-list
>>  wrote:
>> > Suggested dates are November 19–21
>>
>> Any later than Aug 14-19 will lose US university students, for the
>> second year in a row (most schools here will start on the 26th next
>> year). It's also very very late for GSoC students. Well, late GUADEC is
>> better than no GUADEC
>>
>
> My first reaction was "now those are weird GUADEC" dates as well, so
> probably with pointing out that the bid is for LAS, not GUADEC.
>

Yeah, I’m wondering why LAS is going to be in Europe. Is it being co-hosted
with a KDE event? Will it be held with GINA? I’m happy it won’t be in the
US because travel here, etc, is not good right now. But it’s also too bad
that we’ll lose our remaining North American GNOME event.

Meg

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Re: Minutes of the board meeting of June 24, 2019

2019-07-09 Thread Florian Müllner
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, 16:43 ,  wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM, Philip Chimento via foundation-list
>  wrote:
> > Suggested dates are November 19–21
>
> Any later than Aug 14-19 will lose US university students, for the
> second year in a row (most schools here will start on the 26th next
> year). It's also very very late for GSoC students. Well, late GUADEC is
> better than no GUADEC
>

My first reaction was "now those are weird GUADEC" dates as well, so
probably with pointing out that the bid is for LAS, not GUADEC.

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Re: Minutes of the board meeting of June 24, 2019

2019-07-09 Thread mcatanzaro
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM, Philip Chimento via foundation-list 
 wrote:

Suggested dates are November 19–21


Any later than Aug 14-19 will lose US university students, for the 
second year in a row (most schools here will start on the 26th next 
year). It's also very very late for GSoC students. Well, late GUADEC is 
better than no GUADEC, and avoiding summer travel rush is very nice for 
those of us who can travel any time of year, but I'm curious to know 
how many people won't be able to make it.


I'm also curious to know how many people won't be able to make it 
*this* year (Aug 23-28, when university here starts on the 19th). These 
dates would have been a blocker for me when I was in university, since 
missing a week of classes would be a very tough setback. The late July 
or early August dates seem safer. Then again, I know no dates will work 
for everyone, but two years in a row seems unfortunate.


Michael


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