Re: When to hold Pg East - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Don't you guys think the location(s) of said event is relevant to
determining someones ability to go?  There is a big difference in making
plans to go to Boston if you're in Jacksonville vs say Charlotte.

The linuxfest that Andrew did in October had us talking to a lot of guys
who have lost their jobs or are concerned about it, they wanted a
t-shirt but the money for a t-shirt would pay for gas, paying to be in a
city like Boston or NYC is different also than even Philly or College
park.   It just seems a relevant feature in making plans.

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 20:02:16 Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>>> You also might want to throw a disclaimer into the date area that voting
>>>> for "Late May" would still respect the PGCon schedule.  As the second
>>>> mover here, I think your only viable options here are snuggling up next
>>>> to it (East on May {15/}16/17 would open an interesting combo trip
>>>> possibility for long distance travellers, PHL->YYZ is a quick flight),
>>>> or staying clear of that period altogether.
>>>>
>> PHL->YYZ might be a quick flight, but pgcon is in ottowa (aka yow), not
>> toronto. (In fairness I think PHL->YOW isnt too bad, though it will make it
>> harder to get a direct flight)
>>
>>
>>> Making it back-to-back with pgCon would make things easier on speakers.
>>>
>> really? for most people, first you have to work out how to get to Philly, and
>> then work out how to get from there to Ottowa, and then get back to some
>> place other than Philly, which makes getting arragements that much more
>> difficult.  Unless east was actually in Ottowa, I think this makes things
>> harder.
>>
>
> In a lot of cases it would. It would also mean you're away from the
> office two weeks in a row, instead of two weeks with work in between.
> Which may be a whole lot harder to manage.
>
> It would help a bit with the travel time for long distance, yes, but
> it's not a huge difference. And I guess it helps a little bit with the
> travel cost, but again not all that much. But those are in my experience
> often not the problem - the problem is being away from the office.
>
>
>
>>>   However, it would likely decrease both attendence and sponsorships for
>>> each conference.
>>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>
>> Amazing how that problem keeps coming up... I can't wait till jdcon gives up
>> its stubborness and moves itself to the other side of the calendar...
>>
>>
>
> Finding some sort of "even spread" of the dates for larger PostgreSQL
> conferences would certainly be much better. Having -west right before
> pgday.eu was a bad move, IMHO. Having -east right next to pgcon would be
> another one.
>
> We have an events page on the wiki
> (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Events). How about we add an indicator
> (column or color) for "postgresql major" events or something (right now,
> I'd list FOSDEM and pgcon on the list - but I don't know the details
> about the others). That would give a good overview of how well spread
> out these are...
>
> //Magnus
>
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