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color:#1F497D'>I although am not Jewish do agree that we do everything in our
power to work these dates in non-interference with a major holiday. The best
example I can use is asking a Muslim to go to an all you can eat food
conference during the time of Ramadan (although they might welcome the challenge
and the learning experience of hungering and being unable to satisfy that hunger
- it still wouldn’t be considerate or thoughtful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>So I really do hope that the team working on this is able to
gain an alternate date, planning events of this scale I can’t imagine
that being very easy - I myself having seen the work 2nd hand for a large scale
venue and myself working on a 1000 person 5 day event myself - it’s not
an easy task just to undertake for a fixed time, so we all thank you for everything
you’re doing for this community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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consulting-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Matt Cheney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [consulting] SF DrupalCon Proposal is During Passover
Seders<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Greetings,<br>
<br>
It is a tall order to find an available venue that can hold the 2000+ people
for a week long conference and our proposed dates are the only available dates
at the Moscone Center until Summer 2010. Realistically, given the expanding
size of Drupalcon, the conference scheduling decisions should be made more than
a year in advance. <br>
<br>
The Drupalcon SF team is in weekly contact with the Moscone Center and the city
of San Francisco to see if other event dates become available and will do
everything in our power to make sure our proposal is as inclusive and wonderful
as possible. <br>
<br>
Matt Cheney<br>
Drupalcon SF 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <<a
href="mailto:bill@funnymonkey.com">bill@funnymonkey.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone contacted the organizers directly?<br>
<br>
Once the oversight was pointed out to them, it should be pretty easy (I'm
hoping, anyways) to persuade them that these dates need to be changed.<br>
<br>
Shai Gluskin wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
A great group of Drupal folks from San Francisco are putting together what
looks like a fantastic proposal for DrupalCon 2010.<br>
<br>
They've got a web site launched at: <a href="http://drupalconsf2010.org/"
target="_blank">http://drupalconsf2010.org/</a><br>
<br>
Unfortunately, the proposed conference dates, March 29 - 31, are during the
first two nights of Passover when Jews gather with their families and friends
to conduct the Passover "seder," a reenactment of the leaving of
Egypt. This is probably the most compelling Jewish ritual there is and even
very assimilated Jews take part in this ceremony. There has been a lot of
creativity around this ritual in recent years which makes it even more
compelling for even marginally religious Jews.<br>
<br>
I'm Jewish and I personally know a lot of Jewish Drupal developers. I just
think it would be a shame to force us to have to make this choice.<br>
<br>
Anyway, it would be great if folks advocated against these dates in support of
Jewish Drupal developers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I think the best way to voice this right now is on Twitter,
though I think I'll start a thread on <a href="http://drupal.org"
target="_blank">drupal.org</a> <<a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">http://drupal.org</a>>
and post back here. The relevant Twitter accounts are @DrupalConSF and maybe
@dries as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
Thanks in advance for those who are supportive of this objection.<br>
<br>
Shai<o:p></o:p></p>
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