On 2016-02-18 7:18 PM, Risker wrote:
June-July-August is the most expensive period
for just about everywhere in the world; March, April, September and October
tend to be much less expensive in lodging, travel and direct conference
costs. Maybe we need to rethink*when* we are holding Wikimania as much as
anything else.
That is true, and availability of venues etc would be greatly increased.
The flipside, however, is that those months are not ones where
*availability* for travel are high. Most schools/universities are in
session, and employed participants (those most likely to have disposable
income to travel) are generally less able to take time off they those
months fall outside the general "summer vacation" period [at least in
the Northern Hemisphere].
It's not clear to me that a cheaper event fewer people are able to
attend is preferable.
-- Marc
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