On 10/22/21 3:49 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
On 10/15/21 17:01, ddemaio wrote:
HI all,
Please find the notes from Meeting 2 below or at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014 https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014 [1]
## Participants: ddemaio, simon, gertjan
### topics
* openSUSE Confernece
June 2 to 4
Dates work for most people at this point
There are a few holidys that week for different countries, so people would need to take less days off
I wonder if this would actually work against us, for the last few conferences the day of highest attendance by a significant factor has always been the Friday. Most people attending the conference including non SUSE employees are doing so on there companies time and feedback we got from some of them was that trying to make this work for a weekend conference was a significant issue for them. So I fear that while the long weekend might make it easier for a few people traveling who would probably travel anyway we may loose a much larger group of people who may choose to spend the long weekend away with there families.
One of the things we discussed prior to Covid was running Thurs to Sat to help better target and attract a developer Audience which I still think is a good step in the right direction, but with that in mind I wonder if putting the conference on a long weekend isn't a step in the other direction from that goal especially if many people choose to go away with there family on that Friday to Monday. So for that reason I'd lean towards a different week maybe a couple of weeks earlier. If we were trying on the other hand to focus more on hobbyist then a Friday to Sunday over a long weekend would be perfect.
All good points Simon. We did discuss these exact topics and looked at the calendars. Bumping it up a couple weeks earlier would contend with the release of Leap from what I can tell. We haven't signed a contract or anything and will likely discuss this further; we can revisit the topic in our next community meeting. It would be good to read more opinions on the topic here that we can bring into our next discussion. v/r Doug Links: ------ [1] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014