[consulting] SF DrupalCon Proposal is During Passover Seders

Wed May 13 04:41:26 UTC 2009

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.

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.

Good Luck and God bless!

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From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Matt Cheney
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [consulting] SF DrupalCon Proposal is During Passover Seders

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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