[LGM] Schedule

[Pat David]

I can second this from experience traveling around the US for meetings.  I
should also be local well in advance of the meeting, but Nates points are
(uhm...) on point.

We were also hoping to host a photowalk again this year, but I don't recall
if I submitted it as an actual event or not - can we possibly get that into
the agenda consideration?  It's been quite fun in the past to get out and
stroll around with people and their cameras. :)

pat

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:58 AM Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com>
wrote:

> Well, I haven't seen a lot of discussion about the format question, but
> now that acceptances have evidently started going out to presenters, I do
> want to chip in my two cents' worth.
>
> From my POV, one thing that really did *not* work about the 2018 schedule
> was having the two 'half days' at the beginning and end -- the starting in
> the evening on day one, and ending with a partial day at the end.
>
> The primary trouble with this is that if anyone is coming from further
> away than a commuter train -- which is a lot of people -- the two half days
> mean that the attendee still actually loses both full days. You can't get
> from North America, South America, Asia, or even the remoter corners of
> Europe between morning and the start of a late-afternoon/evening program.
> Especially when you factor in checking in at hotels/accommodations. And,
> likewise, you can't get home leaving in the afternoon. So you are forced to
> come a day earlier and leave a day later, losing those days to travel
> entirely.
>
> That said, I know people do generally arrive the evening before the
> program begins, and it's great to have something for everyone to do. But I
> submit that it would be better to organize a social / get-together /
> cooperative-meal hunt for that arrival evening than to have program
> material start then. Many levels of possibility there, from something that
> is actually organized to leaving a wiki-space open for attendees themselves
> to suggest and plan possible meet-ups.
>
> So that's my main take away. For the record, this year I will actually be
> in Europe already when the event starts, so I hope everyone understands
> that this comment is not of the "be convenient for me personally" nature.
> It really is harder on people who travel greater distances to lose that
> extra time, and I think we want to make LGM easy to attend whenever we have
> an opportunity to do so.
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:41 PM Soenke Zehle <soenke at kein.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we would start working from the 2018 model:
>>
>> https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2018/program/
>>
>> Before we (program committee plus local K8 team) do that - what
>> worked, what didn't work 2018 as far as the number of talks /
>> workshops was concerned?
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Soenke
>> Am Di., 11. Dez. 2018 um 17:32 Uhr schrieb Nathan Willis
>> <nwillis at glyphography.com>:
>> >
>> > Hiyo. So I just saw the official dates on the 2019 web site.
>> >
>> > It says "May 29 to June 2" which is five days. Can we get some more
>> specificity about what the program breakdown is? Namely, how many (and
>> which) days we are planning to schedule talks and which we are planning to
>> use for other types of content?
>> >
>> > That can be an important detail for anyone who can't take off five
>> contiguous days for an event, and it's never too early to get the
>> information out there.
>> >
>> > It would also probably be useful for any teams who are wanting to
>> arrange hackathon / meetup / sprint time for multiple folks coming in....
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Nate
>> >
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