I'd also be totally fine with a runoff date vote for the top 2 for each region, as Aimee had suggested. Thoughts?
Works for me, especially as my dates flex a bit depending on what city it is for anyway.
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I'd also be totally fine with a runoff date vote for the top 2 for each region, as Aimee had suggested. Thoughts?
Works for me, especially as my dates flex a bit depending on what city it is for anyway.
Plus, for the March/April dates, one or more of them may coincide with spring break for some of the college/teaching folks. Opens up more possibilities of seeing new faces.
Sail, yep. There are two weekends in the March/April span that would fall in my break, and I'm sure several other people have the same thing.
I can manage March or April, fwiw. (I didn't get around to voting in the poll, alas.)
Last weekend in March(FilkOntario) and the first weekend in April(beginning of Passover) are out for me, but other weekends in that time frame may well work.
My take on the dates tends to be city/temperature variable. Any time at all works for me in Boston, but the later weekends don't look so good if we end up choosing North Carolina.
But then the question becomes which takes priority, place or date?
By voting on date first, it kinda implies that that's the priority.
I also don't really see how we would proceed to a final decision if this vote does not end in a decision? Is the location then also treated as tentative, and we have a final run-off between date/place pairs? That seems rather unwieldy to me.
No, the final location would determine the date. Basically we make a final decision on the dates for the two regions before city pimpage. That means when we go to vote for the final location, we're actually also voting for the final date since date/location would be linked. I'm just trying to give a little more flexibilty in the early process.
It seems like treating the date as tentative is trying to re-fight a decision that was already made in deciding what to vote on first, and, honestly, we're not that early in the process. We need to be getting things decided and reservations made.
But the vote only included one weekend in May and no weekends in March or April. I hardly consider it a decision that has already been made if the earlier dates weren 't even options.