[LCA2019 Chat] Schedule for social events?

[Michael Still]

Yes, it seems to me that evening BOFs are going to be a bit fraught. I will
find a lunchtime instead.

Thanks all,
Michael

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 5:49 PM Hugh Blemings <hugh at blemings.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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