> i was thinking i might be able to arrange a w/e down > in london if this was going to happen... but i couldn't > if it was that weekend. A suggestion: why don't people tell me when they _can_ attend lon9con, rather than when they _can't_? If we arbitrarily say sometime between say, start of March, (to allow time for people to get organised), and end of June, to get a cutoff date. May I suggest that we also forget any of the following dates: 8th May, because of Usenix VM, 27th March because of PyCon 5th June because of EuroPython. If anyone has any other dates that _generally_ seem a Bad Idea, please email me! I've attached a list of dates of possible Saturdays with the above constraints. If everyone who wants to come emails me back the attachment after deleting the Saturdays that they _can't_ attend (i.e. I want lists of when you _can_ come) preserving the format so I can count them easily. Send it to _me_ (davel@anvil.com) with a subject of "lon9con possible dates". I will then chose randomly among the most popular date(s). Cheers, Dave.