martin f krafft dijo [Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:19:00PM +0200]: > also sprach Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> [2015-04-29 10:19 +0200]: > > The job fair is currently scheduled for the main DebConf arrival day. > > Actually, we would like Saturday to be the first day of DebConf and > the main arrival day be Friday, but we probably failed to make this > clear.
I know I'm late to this, but having the arrival day on Friday is usually problematic from people travelling from far away: It requires taking basically an extra half week from work (Thursday+Friday) to arrive on time (and the equivalent on teardown+flyback day). IIRC, we have usually (read usually as in: "where I've been more closely involved in scheduling") had Saturday as arrival day, and then start activities on Sunday. Likewise for departure, finish activities on Saturday and cover sponsored accomodation until Sunday, having most people depart on Sunday. > The big question is: can we somehow tweak things in the > communication and still convince people that *all* should arrive on > Friday already? Well, DebConf is announced as starting on Saturday 15th and finishing on Saturday 22th, so... it *could* be understood that the first activities will be held Saturday morning. Dunno... I'd start gentle and have the first activities on Saturday afternoon, in consideration for people who cannot travel on Friday (i.e. within Europe) or have to do a long distance flight (i.e. rest of the world) > This could be done *in addition* of moving the job fair to Sunday, > if those responsible for the job fair and scheduling deem it > appropriate. It would be sensible, I'm for moving it. And yes, as it has been pointed out, one extra day does not completely dillute jetlag... But the effect on those who suffer it is much less shattering. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
