[OSGeo-Conf] R: FOSS4G-Halifax 2020 Answers: Steven

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi María,

I think this depends on the country or even on the university. We choosed
also the second week of September for our Sevilla proposal because on that
date there were exams, but no classes yet, so we could use the labs easily.

In any case, at least it is good to balance between August and September
and don't do it always on August, because August also has a lot of issues
with family conciliation (and travel costs).

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:08 AM Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:

> Dear Jeff,
> Congratulations for your amazing proposal! Unfortunately the dates you
> chose are at the beginning of academic semester. Therefore you can involve
> local students but it will be difficult to have professors and  researchers
> of other universities around the world. Best regards and thanks for your
> consideration.
> Maria
>
>
>
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>
>
> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Da: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Data: 08/10/18 01:10 (GMT+01:00)
> A: conference <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: chair at foss4g.ca
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G-Halifax 2020 Answers: Steven
>
> Dear Steven,
>
> First, Karine and I would like to both say that we are honoured to be
> with such a high class of local committee teams such as Calgary and
> Niagara.
>
> Thank you for mentioning that Jewish festivals for Rosh Hashana begin on
> the evening of the 18th.  We have a backup date reserved with the Nova
> Centre venue for 31 August to 5 September, so it is possible to change
> our dates.  When we were looking at possible venues about 6 months ago,
> our vision was to leverage a mid-September date to additionally allow
> for university students and pre-university students to be involved, but
> also because the local weather is best in mid-September (a lot less
> rain, bringing beautiful fall/autumn colours and sunshine to the
> Atlantic Canada region).  We the FOSS4G-HFX team will continue to
> analyze our dates closely.  For the record, using our initially proposed
> dates, the 19th (Saturday) would be the community sprint.  We will try
> to be accommodating as possible.
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Karine Jean & Jeff McKenna
> co-chairs, FOSS4G-HFX 2020
>
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