I just discussed this more on IRC with h01ger/marga/cek_. After some discussion we reached a consensus that with what we know now we could improve the schedule (before we send out the announcements).
There are really two issues that have been raised recently: -- What day is best for the conference Open Day (formerly Debian Day). ana had previously suggested a weekday might in fact be better. On IRC, cek_ agreed with this, saying that people from companies wouldn't come on the weekend, but no one was likely to *not* come on a weekday. Thus the local team's current preferred day for the Open Day is Friday 24th. -- What day should we start the talks/official DebConf? After the timeline was originally drafted, we agreed to make Debian Day this year an 'Open Day' of talks that are interesting to both regular DebConf attendees and outsiders. This means that the draft schedule now has one more day of DebConf talks than was originally intended/than in the previous years. (As I said in my last message, this would also increase costs, and since the 'extra' day is the first Thursday many attendees may be absent then anyway due to holiday/travel constraints.) Holger suggested extending Debian Camp rather than the number of days of talks, and so labelling Thursday 23rd as the arrival day. That would give: up to 23rd: DebCamp continuing for participants Thursday 23rd: Arrival day for DebConf, and last day of DebCamp Friday 24th: DebConf day 1, also Open Day Saturday 25th: DebConf day 2 Sunday 26th: DebConf day 3: Day Trip Monday 27th: DebConf day 4 Tuesday 28th: DebConf day 5 Wednesday 29th: DebConf day 6 Thursday 30th: DebConf day 7, last night for sponsored accommodation Friday 31st: Cleanup, leave -- Moray _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
