[LCA2019 Chat] Schedule for social events?

[Hugh Blemings]

Hiya,

Thanks Ewen and Lisa, I think that gives us just what we need :)

Cheers,
Hugh


On 14/1/19 17:41, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> On 2019-01-14 19:17, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
>> Specifically, does anyone know what times the various events start in 
>> the evening, and what time people need to leave site to make it to 
>> those events?
> 
> In practice those evening events (Tue/Wed/Thu, depending on ticket type; 
> Monday for AGM) generally start around 18:00 (6pm), or involve transport 
> (eg, buses) that people need to be on around then.  So there's often not 
> much time from the close of the last "day" session (17:30) until (some) 
> people need to be on their way to an event.
> 
> The AGM (Monday) I suspect is relatively short (an hour or so?) so it 
> might be possible to have something after that, at least if it were 
> hosted at a dorm venue rather than the main University campus (I don't 
> know when we'll be encouraged out of the main campus, but some years 
> it's been fairly early).
> 
> Tuesday is the (main conference programme only) Speaker's dinner, so 
> will have the fewest people with conflicts of Tue/Wed/Thu.  Wednesday 
> (PDNS) may well have a "Unprofessional DNS" community organised along 
> side it, but the schedule tends to be a bit more flexible for those. 
> Thursday is the main conference dinner, which I suspect will have the 
> most conference attendees of the Tue/Wed/Thu days; and it's also later 
> in the week when people are less likely to want to add more "BoFs" into 
> their day.
> 
> The other common BoF approach if you are trying not to conflict with any 
> other sessions is to go for a lunchtime option (either at a lunch venue, 
> or somewhere for half of lunchtime), or a morning/afternoon tea.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Ewen