Proposed: start DConf days one hour later (page 2)

On 28 Apr 2016 6:30 AM, "Mithun Hunsur via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@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.

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@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.

April 28, 2016

Re: Proposed: start DConf days one hour later

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On 28 April 2016 at 07:10, Mithun Hunsur via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 04:47:38 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
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>> On 28 Apr 2016 6:30 AM, "Mithun Hunsur via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
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>>> Hmm; my talk's at 3:30pm on Friday (4:30pm after this change), which
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>> 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.)
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>> Check Google maps. Google maps can even guess how long it will take at the time you specify.
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> Aha - if Google Maps is accurate, I have nothing to worry about :) For reference, the number it gives me is 37 minutes.
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Yep, by rule of thumb, you should set off at least 1 hour before the gate closes, maybe an 1h30m just to be safe.  For all the times I've departed from Tegel, it's always taken about 5-10 minutes to walk from the bus stop outside to *any* departure gate.  The airport really is that small.

http://www.berlin-airport.de/de/_dokumente/reisende/2015-09-28-txl-terminal-de-en.pdf

To give you a small idea, the length of Terminal C (left to right) is
about 100 metres. :-)

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 05:10:25 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote: > On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 04:47:38 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: >> [...] > > 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. +1 from me. I wouldn't make it to the 17:45 train home anyway.

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 I'll take off early on Friday and will miss the last talk, with this one hour shift I'll probably miss the last two talks ... But hey they'll be recorded right?

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 Yay, more sleep time! Also, you can always not shift the schedule for Friday only, or shift it only half an hour. On Friday people will probably start to be better acclimated to the timezone anyway.

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 That would be great, at least on the first day. My flight lands at 8:00 AM. Two other guys are in the same situation. Dragos

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 Now I have to wait another whole hour for the start of the live streaming? Just kidding:) I'm so thankful you guys work so hard on my favorite language.

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