Travis Willard wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007 6:04 PM, Tom K <tom@archlinux.org> wrote:
Well, if there's a general feeling that we should go for '08, that's fine with me too.
I'd personally prefer '09 - already have vacation planned for '08, and not sure if I'll be able to justify two extravagent trips.
I'm less for '09 than '08. I don't know where I'm going to be in '08 and saving money plus then keeping it is a great hassle. Berlin is a great city to live it but not to make a living. Thus, I may be outta here by then or simply wouldn't know where I'd be. Just a feeling about not liking to plan that much ahead.
Re the current trend of this conversation: I can of course see the practical benefits of organising our shindig around an existing, established event. I have to say, though, that my original thought was for ArchCon to stand on its own. Whether that's practical or not is open to discussion, of course.
I thought stand-alone too, but that involves a ton of planning if we wanna do some kind of 'real' convention. If it's just a bunch of dev's in someone's mother's basement, then it'd be easier to do, heh.
Hypothetically, if we would decide to do it in Germany I'd be able to get a huge room in the middle of town in the Tacheles art house for almost free. A week is about 400 bucks but since it's only 3 days, well. Internet redundancy is 4x and lots of people backing it. Well, I don't think doing this at someone's house is a very good idea.
I don't mind organizing this around another con, or whatever - but I'd greatly prefer 2009. Any day/time combo is good for me in '09, and pretty well nothing will be good in '08.
I'd rather not. Linuxtag wasn't all so bad cos it was a Linux fair and we hung around the booth most of the time anyways. But on froscon I would imagine, with that intensity of topics we'd easily be distracted by non-arch related stuff. Cheers, -G