Dan, I was under the impression that we agreed on Sunday in the last TSC call. The following was posted in the meeting minutes:
AGREED: ODL DDF will be on Sunday March 25, 2018 (abhijitkumbhare, 19:04:10) And later summarized as follows by Abhijit in his email about the meeting minutes: The Fluorine DDF will be on March 25, 2018 - which is unfortunately on a Sunday but that is the best choice in the current circumstances. It will be at the same venue as the ONS. There will be possibilities to have smaller breakout sessions on Monday and Tuesday during the LFN developer event. I agree that the ONS event is *ridiculously* expensive, and consequently I wont be attending it. Im making the trip just to attend the DDF, which I feel is worth it. I was able to reserve at the event hotel for the nights of Saturday and Sunday (March 24, 25) for the same rate of $259/night. I hope we can also have breakout sessions on Monday without having to pay to get into the ONS for the day. I hope Phil and Casey will work this out for us. If ONS insists on being so expensive and charging for ridiculous things like an ODL breakout session, then they should be worried about facing the same fate as the SDN world congress, who tried to do the same thing and nobody attends that anymore. Regards, *Brady Johnson* [email protected] <https://twitter.com/inocybetech> <http://www.inocybe.com/> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/2661537?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A2661537%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1441300264767%2Ctas%3Ainocybe> [image: Screenshot 2017-02-14 at 10.43.55 AM.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9uUWABdPR0Je9Du_15FCkw> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Daniel Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Bumping this thread to summarize where we're at and what we need to know. > > Mentally running a raked-preference algorithm on the votes we saw, it > looks like the community prefers 3 (Thurs/Fri), then 1 (Mon/Tues), then a > distant 2 (Sunday). However, Casey's follow-up makes it seem like we don't > have much of an option, must do 2/Sunday. > > Regarding costs, there seems to be ongoing confusion. Casey mentioned > above and on the TSC that the Monday/Tuesday cross-community event would be > free for DDF participants, but told a few of us on yesterday's TWS that > he's now hearing it will not be free. I've also heard quite a bit of > off-list concern that the DDF is at risk of not being well-attended since > it's a single weekend day and ONS is so expensive ($1195 early bird). A > number of us also sent talks to ONS that now seem like they should be part > of the cross-community event (track details sent after CFP closed), so > we're not sure if we will get speaker passes. > > We've also asked for the hotel discount to start on Saturday since the DDF > will be Sunday but haven't heard back. > > We really need to get some clarity here ASAP as folks are trying to figure > out budgets and flights will start going up in price soon. > > Thanks, > Daniel > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM Anil Belur <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:05 AM, Daniel Farrell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Bumping this thread because we really need to get to a resolution ASAP, >>> folks need to book travel. >>> >>> The options I've seen: >>> >>> 1. DDF on Thursday/Friday before ONS. Very long trip, but no conflicts. >>> 2. DDF on Sunday before ONS. Conflicts with XCI event, working on the >>> weekend sucks. >>> 3. DDF during Mon/Tue of ONS. Conflicts with cross-community >>> collaboration event. Unclear if cross-community event has two full days of >>> relevant content. Maybe possible to time-slice in a way that minimizes >>> conflict (DDF in the morning, cross-community events involving ODL in the >>> afternoon). >>> 4. Have a virtual DDF. Likely not as productive, little support voiced >>> so far. >>> >>> I prefer 1 or 3, since the XCI event is critical for me. >>> >>> >> +1 for 1 or 3 >> >
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