There is a benefit to having an "annual" convention at more-or-less the same time every year. In fact, I don't think it's really a good idea to have it on Memorial Day weekend, but that's not as bad as the beginning of April which is a completely different season, and is really not equidistant to the adjacent conventions.
I'd much rather have a convention at a smaller, suburban hotel, (Santa Clara, for instance) than screw around with the dates.
I'd also like to see reasonable hotel rates, but I don't think that is on the cards right now.
Oh, it's not so much making others clone the US holiday schedule, it's a matter of scheduling your event when the vast majority of the people attending it have time off. Vancouver seems to have no difficulty scheduling their primary fly-in on the weekend of American Thanksgiving, every year.
Maybe DC should have just been a random weekend in June, but Easter is too early and too sensitive for too many people. I'm not saying people should boycott 2009, but I am advocating for not having convention that early ever again. (And, I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.)
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Date: 2007-05-27 06:08 am (UTC)I'd much rather have a convention at a smaller, suburban hotel, (Santa Clara, for instance) than screw around with the dates.
I'd also like to see reasonable hotel rates, but I don't think that is on the cards right now.
Oh, it's not so much making others clone the US holiday schedule, it's a matter of scheduling your event when the vast majority of the people attending it have time off. Vancouver seems to have no difficulty scheduling their primary fly-in on the weekend of American Thanksgiving, every year.
Maybe DC should have just been a random weekend in June, but Easter is too early and too sensitive for too many people. I'm not saying people should boycott 2009, but I am advocating for not having convention that early ever again. (And, I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.)