More votes and a fantastic alternative strategy suggested!
I liked the idea of appealing to more of us by doing two separate autumn events. If one is in the autumn of each of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres we end up with a Spring and an Autumn event for you wherever you might live. Great idea essxjay!! I would ideally like one place to fit with enough people to do it once a year, but that is fairly restricting based on the general response. There seems to so much enthusiastic interest that we ought to take a short time and figure out if we are going to do the twice in the same year style. If so it will need to be coordinated very soon. Could those who have serious scheduling conflicts with either Oz in its own autumn or Europe during its Autumn give a show of hands so we can pursue that avenue or not depending on general opinion.
Shareholder--Excellent and thank you in advance for letting us all know the upshot of those discussions.
If you DUS destined folk can let us know what a group of ten or so comes up with when batting the idea about face to face it would be of great help in gauging the direction we might want to pursue here. Looking forward to that post.
Currently the opinions are distributed as follows:
Oz 11
US 2
Euro 5
Flex 3*
*(note this number consists only of those who have stated a preference otherwise
but would go with another option if need be)
Opinions voiced so far are:
Possibilities suggested:
July or August
July 8-15
Anytime but June (if Europe)
August (if in Oz)
Early July or mid-late August
Autumn for each hemisphere (Nth, Sth).
Most conflicting dates are:
March 23-25
First week of July
Last ten days of July
17 August-27 August
Current head count looks like:
dhammer53
svpii (depending on the location)
ozstamps
smooth
Gaucho100K (depending on the timing)
violist (depending on the timing)
essxjay (Brewfest dates considered)
bbinchi
geo1004
mizu
Punki (timing dependent)
airoli (timing dependent)
eMailman (interested)
Vulcan
Law Lord (if Euro, not June)
Doc (place and timing dependent)
RK7 (if Oz in Aug.)
Shareholder
indogulf
Stimpy (Autumn in either place)
MRKEY (March, April)
ElizabethP (hoping)
auh2o
mjm
[This message has been edited by mjm (edited 11-05-2000).]