I agree.
The work behind the organization is more than organizing a wiki-meeting to
drink a beer.
People have to consider the costs for travel, the booking of tickets and
the accommodation plus visas.
Yes, six months is a convenient timeline to start working on.
regards
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Cristian Consonni
<kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2013/9/18 Balázs Viczián
<balazs.viczian(a)wikimedia.hu>hu>:
> The thing is that you should start building from the bottom, not from
the
> top. A venue can be secured as late as 3
months before the event to
give
everyone
enough time to plan and get cheap tickets (and I mean first
minute, not last minute). Most airline and international train tickets
are
the cheapest if you buy them ~3 months in
advance. Not much later, nor
earlier, because both are being "penalized" by higher fees. We can find
out
where to have the event as late as early January
May I point out that if you want to be able to book tickets 3 months
before <event:date> you should start working on <event> at the very
least six month in advance. How can you tell the destination of your
booking if you don't know where the event is going to be held?
From WM-IT's experience with WMConf 2013 (which we are discussing to
replicate) you have to start organizing it in November, no later.
Cristian
Plus, you're forgetting visas.
Aubrey
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