Yeah, I've had the same problem with trying to justify one-day inter-continental conference trips, so being longer would help — though note that this proposal would likely only be a two-day conference for the majority of potential non-US participants (i.e. they're not likely to care about Day 0).
Being adjacent to other events makes sense as well — much like happens for a bunch of events before and after FOSDEM. On 20/10/15 13:34, Robert Sandell wrote: > I had a somewhat different problem, that it was hard to motivate the > travel expense across the pond for a mere one day conference. > A three day conference would be easier to motivate in my experience; > previously working for a larger corporation with large investment in > Jenkins at least. > The first Jenkins user conference in 2011 was easy to motivate since it > was adjacent to Java One. The others were harder. > > Having one bigger one could perhaps also give some breathing room to > other more local/smaller conferences <http://www.code-conf.com/jues15/> > on the subject :) > > /B > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Manuel Jesús Recena Soto > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hello James, > > (reply in line) > > 2015-10-20 12:03 GMT+02:00 James Nord <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Taking off my cloudbees hat and putting on my old hat being based in > Europe. > > > > Getting approval to attend conferences abroad (outside Europe) for me > was > > not always easy - as it involves large travel and time lost due to > this. As > > such it was easier to go to a european conference. I also feel that > yes > > you get more people in USA-CA but that this could just a critical mass > and a > > direct result of its much easier to go to something local than it is to > > travel 9 hours around the globe. Do you have stats of where people came > > from in the last even - where they predominantly from the bay area? > > In the London event I met people that where very basic users of Jenkins > > (just starting) and it was easy for them to go to a local conference. > Would > > these same users make the same investment to go somewhere accross the > globe > > - I personally don't think so - which would be a big shame. > > > > The JAMs fill a gap - but I'm not sure that this gap is filled yet - or > that > > it will be filled by next year - certainly there is nothing in the UK > that > > I know of - and even then we would need something based in the north > west as > > well as somewhere around London. > > I had the opportunity to attend JUG London and was a great experience. > It would be a pity don't have this event in Europe. > > As you pointed, JAM events can fill this gap. > > In Spain, there are two JAM starting (Seville and Barcelona). Maybe > someday, we can organize a bigger event. Another open source > communities do something similar. > > Regards, > > > On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 4:51:39 AM UTC+2, Kohsuke Kawaguchi > wrote: > >> > >> Putting my CloudBees hat on, I'd like to discuss the following proposed > >> changes to the events in 2016, where we are moving away from JUC into > a new > >> model. > >> > >> > >> > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Proposal+-+Revisiting+JUC+in+2016 > >> > >> I put this up for the project meeting agenda in 1.5 week, but I hope to > >> get discussions going well before that. > >> > >> -- > >> Kohsuke Kawaguchi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/56265384.20600%40orr.me.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
