[PD] the next PdCon in...

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2013-01-15 08:57, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
>> Hello all,
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> i guess it's time for me to step in.
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>> To add my point: in France, students usually start courses between
>> the 15th of september and the 1st october. So I guess, the
>> beginning of september is better for us.
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> first of all: cool, great, thank you.
> it's great that somebody picked it up again.
> also, i quite like the idea of PdCon bouncing between continents.
> 
> as for the date: in Austria, courses start at the beginning of october
> as well :-(
> so i wouldn't mind if the date could be shifted.
> i would go as far (even on the danger of being boohed) as to say that
> i personally would not mind to see the next PdCon early in 2014
> (but that's mainly because my schedule is tight; i would love to see
> all of you again asap!)

The dates are fixed with the VIA festival, and CMU could only host PdCon in 2013 in conjunction with the VIA festival.  So the question is, whether we should go ahead with first week of October 2013 in Pittsburgh even though it will conflict for a lot of European universities.

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