[consulting] SF DrupalCon Proposal is During Passover Seders

[Shai Gluskin]

Matt,

Thanks for reporting back... and I'm really pleased with the content of the
report. Excellent work. I really hope SF gets it. I'll be there.

Shai

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Matt Cheney <matt at chapterthreellc.com>wrote:

> As a followup here in case people missed the announcement, another
> conference scheduled for third week of April pulled out and we got
> #recessionlucky were able to pick up a new set of dates at the Moscone
> Center in downtown San Francisco from April 17th through April 19th.
>
> Full schedule details (including related events) are available on the
> website (http://drupalconsf2010.org/) and if you are interested in
> more details about the SF Community I wrote up a blog post about it
> all here: http://tr.im/sfdrupalexplosion.
>
> No word yet from the Drupal Association on a timetable for moving
> forward, but I think they are pretty busy with Drupalcon Paris and
> they will let everyone know as soon as they can.
>
> Matt Cheney
> helping people build beautiful bicycles and websites in san francisco,
> california
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Matt Cheney <matt at chapterthreellc.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Matt Cheney
> > Drupalcon SF 2010
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <bill at funnymonkey.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Has anyone contacted the organizers directly?
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Shai Gluskin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Folks,
> >>>
> >>> A great group of Drupal folks from San Francisco are putting together
> what looks like a fantastic proposal for DrupalCon 2010.
> >>>
> >>> They've got a web site launched at: http://drupalconsf2010.org/
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, it would be great if folks advocated against these dates in
> support of Jewish Drupal developers.
> >>>
> >>> I think the best way to voice this right now is on Twitter, though I
> think I'll start a thread on drupal.org <http://drupal.org> and post back
> here. The relevant Twitter accounts are @DrupalConSF and maybe @dries as
> well.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance for those who are supportive of this objection.
> >>>
> >>> Shai
> >>>
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