I would like to come to a decision for the date and venue soon.
According to the poll, the best options so far are:
- TUECHTIG (Berlin), June 17th to 19th (11 yes/ok votes)
- TIB (Hannover), May 8th to 10th with (10 yes/ok votes)
I would be tempted to go for the first one, since it has more votes and is a bit later (giving us more time to organize). Having the event in a capital might be easier for people flying in, helping people opt for direct flights.
I would have loved to do the event at TIB, I think it would have made much more sense than going for a commercial venue, and would have reinforced our ties with Open Science Lab. I also grateful for the invitation that @lozanaross extended. Hopefully we can do another meeting there at some other point.
I also had a meeting with WMDE about organizing the event there: sadly, they are already quite full for this year and have planned some remodeling work in their event space (starting in the last week of June), so it looks like it wouldn't work there.
Last call for concerns / resistance before we go for TUECHTIG (Berlin), June 17th to 19th?