2015Planning
Rules
- don't schedule on Yom Kippur
- avoid dates that conflict with other FOSS events. Also check SC and USENIX
- OSU home games, especially home opener, UMich, and PSU cause problems with hotel pricing and availablity
- Columbus Marathon causes road closures (10/18/2015)
- shoot for a weekend in September or October
- never on Labor Day weekend. but Columbus Day weekend is fine.
- Early scheduling in August to mid September causes lack of college student attendance
- Be aware of HighBall
NO
- August 14-16 Usenix Security Summit
- August 17-19 - Linuxcon NA
- September 5-7 - Laborday
- Sepbember 23 - Yom Kippur on a Wednesday
- October 16-18 - Marathon & OSU vs PSU
Problematic
- September 12 - OSU home opener vs Hawaii
- September 19 - OSU exhibition
- September 26 - OSU exhibition
- Oct 10 - OSU vs Maryland
- Oct 30-Nov 1 - Late and maybe Highball
YES
- October 2-4
- October 16-18
- October 23-25 (confirm when Highball is)