On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:01 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > > Another option that could be considered is back-to-back co-location. > You > > get a lot of the same advantages in terms of cheaper financials, yet > > since they will be run sequentially at the same location you don't > get > > the collisions and 'noise' of sharing one venue at the same time. > And > > interested GNOME hackers could that way easy attend aKademy by > extending > > their stay a little and the same for KDE hackers the other way > around. > > I'm not poo-pooing the idea completely, but let me ask the question: > do > you think many people will be able to take 2 consecutive weeks to go > to > two conferences? I know I wouldn't (the boss would probably think I > was > nuts, and the wife would kill me). I'm wondering if there are a lot of > volunteers in the same situation as me.
FWIW, that's what people attending GUADEC-es has been doing for the last years: attending GUADEC-es during week n, and then GUADEC during the week n+1. And that includes people traveling from South America. I'd say that people who have organized GUADEC-es in the past can give more feedback on how good results have they got with this approach of organizing the conference in a very close date to GUADEC. Oh, and by the way, the only time the two conferences were in the same location was during last year (Vilanova i la Geltrú). Nevertheless, I'd still say they've got good results. Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
