Re: When to hold Pg East - disregard

Nevermind..

Melanie wrote:
> Don't you guys think the location(s) of said event is relevant to
> determining someones ability to go? There is a big difference in
> making plans to go to Boston if you're in Jacksonville vs say Charlotte.
>
> The linuxfest that Andrew did in October had us talking to a lot of
> guys who have lost their jobs or are concerned about it, they wanted a
> t-shirt but the money for a t-shirt would pay for gas, paying to be in
> a city like Boston or NYC is different also than even Philly or
> College park. It just seems a relevant feature in making plans.
>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Robert Treat wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 20:02:16 Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You also might want to throw a disclaimer into the date area that
>>>>> voting
>>>>> for "Late May" would still respect the PGCon schedule. As the second
>>>>> mover here, I think your only viable options here are snuggling up
>>>>> next
>>>>> to it (East on May {15/}16/17 would open an interesting combo trip
>>>>> possibility for long distance travellers, PHL->YYZ is a quick
>>>>> flight),
>>>>> or staying clear of that period altogether.
>>>>>
>>> PHL->YYZ might be a quick flight, but pgcon is in ottowa (aka yow),
>>> not toronto. (In fairness I think PHL->YOW isnt too bad, though it
>>> will make it harder to get a direct flight)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Making it back-to-back with pgCon would make things easier on
>>>> speakers.
>>>>
>>> really? for most people, first you have to work out how to get to
>>> Philly, and then work out how to get from there to Ottowa, and then
>>> get back to some place other than Philly, which makes getting
>>> arragements that much more difficult. Unless east was actually in
>>> Ottowa, I think this makes things harder.
>>
>> In a lot of cases it would. It would also mean you're away from the
>> office two weeks in a row, instead of two weeks with work in between.
>> Which may be a whole lot harder to manage.
>>
>> It would help a bit with the travel time for long distance, yes, but
>> it's not a huge difference. And I guess it helps a little bit with the
>> travel cost, but again not all that much. But those are in my experience
>> often not the problem - the problem is being away from the office.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> However, it would likely decrease both attendence and
>>>> sponsorships for
>>>> each conference.
>>>>
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Amazing how that problem keeps coming up... I can't wait till jdcon
>>> gives up its stubborness and moves itself to the other side of the
>>> calendar...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Finding some sort of "even spread" of the dates for larger PostgreSQL
>> conferences would certainly be much better. Having -west right before
>> pgday.eu was a bad move, IMHO. Having -east right next to pgcon would be
>> another one.
>>
>> We have an events page on the wiki
>> (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Events). How about we add an indicator
>> (column or color) for "postgresql major" events or something (right now,
>> I'd list FOSDEM and pgcon on the list - but I don't know the details
>> about the others). That would give a good overview of how well spread
>> out these are...
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>>
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