[CentOS-promo] CentOS Dojo - Sept 2015 - London

Fri Feb 20 17:41:51 UTC 2015
Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com>


On 02/19/2015 03:14 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 19 February 2015 at 07:01, Joe Brockmeier <jzb at redhat.com
> <mailto:jzb at redhat.com>> wrote:
>     On 02/19/2015 04:17 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>     > I'm in the final stages of confirming venue for a West London based
>     > CentOS dojo in early September this year.
>     >
>     > Consider this a CfP as well.
>     >
>     > Also, were slightly flexible on dates at this point, would a weekend or
>     > a weekday dojo work best ?
> 
>     Aren't weekend events kind of hard to get people to? Or is that just in
>     the U.S.?
> 
> From what I was told in Europe it is the opposite because people don't
> use weekdays for frivolities like conferences and such. However I expect
> that statement is loaded with which part of Europe (France vs England vs
> Czech Republic vs Italy) , what time of year (August in Paris...), etc. 

Also target audience - volunteer communities who go on their own time
prefer weekends, people travelling for work prefer weekdays. Younger,
childless audiences like evenings and weekends, older family people
don't like taking time away from the family on the weekend.

Of course, these are big generalisations, not always true, ymmv, etc.

Regards,
Dave.

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