> On Nov 10, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was one of the first to schedule a side-meeting on Friday, and I immediately got a few people saying "but I already scheduled to leave Thursday night because I assumed nothing would be happening on Friday". I scheduled a second side-meeting on the same topic on Wednesday. The Wednesday meeting had 35ish people, the Friday had below 20. > > But I also note that very few side meetings were on the schedule for Friday, which to me says that maybe optimizing for side-meetings was overkill. A different idea is to have three rooms for side-meetings during the week because there was contention for the two in some slots. I ended up shortening my stay by ~22 hours and arrived home ~24h earlier as a result due to the flight schedules. I didn’t have as many overlapping items as usual this time, but I think that’s due to some of the WGs being more aggressive about holding interims. It also felt like attendance was down (but I haven’t done the obvious and check the registration numbers). I did like the venue, it worked well. Plenty of food choices nearby and once I realized the shortcut to the train station via the park life was good. I think the fact that there are 11pm/1am flights leaving BKK for where I live made things much better even if it was a full day Friday. I wish there were later flights to the US from Europe. I often end up leaving Prague 6am on Friday to get a connection home. I think this speaks more to BKK as a location we should revisit regardless of what happens with Fridays. - Jared
