I've privately asked Aric if he would be willing to help organize a call for presentations and so on, and he agreed. We have Arek willing to take care of the very hard logistics of coordinating this, so I feel like we should try it. It might be fair for us, as a community, to give Aric and Arek some guidelines. Things like how many days, what time of day, what time of year, and so on. I'm going to seed this with a suggestion, but I have no strong feelings about it. That is, rather than doing this over a weekend, as we usually do, how about if do this on a Friday/Saturday, and run from 15:00 GMT until 21:00 GMT each day [1] []2. For timing, how about the middle of January? The 15th/16th? Again, I'm just seeding the discussion. Thoughts? Cheers, Jeremy [1] This might be a bit long; we were running quite light on proposals for the last Wineconf, and I fear we may hit the same. I'd tend to say we just shorten the windows to respond to that. [2] My rationale is that I hope that Pacific time folks can wake up early (7:00 am) to participate, and Asian folks can stay up late (22:00 in Japan) to do the same. I was also sort of hoping that would be easier for Europeans to get off work on the Friday, but maybe that's a pointless issue these days.