Proposed: start DConf days one hour later
Mithun Hunsur via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 27 22:10:25 PDT 2016
On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 04:47:38 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2016 6:30 AM, "Mithun Hunsur via
> Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 03:44:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 18:36:54 UTC, Andrei
>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The folks at Sociomantic suggested to start at 10:00 AM
>>>> instead of 9:00
> AM, therefore shifting the end time by one as well. Please
> reply with thoughts on this! We're particularly concerned about
> folks who need to take off early on Friday. -- Andrei
>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>>
>> Hmm; my talk's at 3:30pm on Friday (4:30pm after this change),
>> which
> means I'd leave at 5:30pm. My flight out of Berlin is at
> 9:30pm; how long does it take to get from the venue to the
> airport? (I'll probably have to skip the last talk of Friday,
> which is a shame.)
>
> Check Google maps. Google maps can even guess how long it will
> take at the time you specify.
Aha - if Google Maps is accurate, I have nothing to worry about
:) For reference, the number it gives me is 37 minutes.
In that case, +1 to starting late; that being said, I feel like
announcing a sweeping change like this days before the conference
seems fraught to end poorly.
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