Steve Dower suggested that I start this conversation here.
Based on core dev requirements and feedback after September’s sprint, I have been working with two organizations that are interested in hosting the 2019 core dev sprints. Below is a summary of what each org is offering:
Pinterest in San Francisco has offered a venue with catering
Bloomberg in London has offered a venue with catering and PyLondinium has offered to donate their profit to the PSF towards the use of core dev travel and hotel costs. Their profits are estimated to be $20,000 in 2019, which is enough to cover the majority of reimbursements.
Based on what is being offered, I recommend that we take Bloomberg & PyLondinium up on their offers. Additionally, having it in London should make it easier for some core devs to join.
With regards to the date, does the week of September 9, 2019 work?
A side discussion point: we don’t have a formal selection process for the core dev sprint venue and date, but let’s work on something after a new governance model is selected.
If anyone has any questions or comments, feel free to respond here or contact me directly: ewa@python.org.
I’m less likely to make it if it’s in London than if it’s in SF, but I assume there are other people with the reverse situation, and it’s only fair that they get a turn :-).
Looks like there will be a post-Brexit transition period until 31 December 2020 where many of the current rules will be upheld. But I suspect UK will be able to have its own immigration policy indeed (it already had, at least partly: for example it wasn’t in the “Schengen zone”).
(and of course travelling to the US is its own mess)
With regards to the date, does the week of September 9, 2019 work?
That’s the worst month for me. My children are going back to school, it’s the month to organize a lot of stuff. Basically, my family denied me to travel in September anymore
I’m guessing it will be difficult to find a date that will work for everyone
For myself, I’m open to travel in any week of Sep 2019 and Nov 2019.
August 5th is definite no for me.
Oct 7 is not great, it will conflict with PyCon DE (Oct 9-11), and I’m planning to be there. The week before or after might work better, especially if the sprint is in London.
If you are open to change the date, maybe the Python 3.8 schedule might help to find another date? For example, there is “3.8.0 beta 1: Sunday, 2019-05-26 (No new features beyond this point.)” Would it make sense to organize a sprint before this beta1? Sometime between now and 2019-05-26. I’m proposing this because I recall that in 2016, the sprint was one week just before Python 3.6 feature freeze (beta1), and it was really productive: we pushed a lot of new features just before the freeze. The drawback is that it’s more work for the release manager to stabilize everything for the beta1
London and the second week of September work for me. The week of August 5th may also work, but it may be a big close to EuroPython. EP is usually in the 3rd or 4th week of July.
