Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
If we are going to have wineconf here, I need to know a date and a more or less precise number of participants, possibly within a few days.
I think this works exactly the other way around.
You set the date according to what is best accepted at the local place. You also give a rough estimate of how many will participate, according to past years exeprience and a rough survey here.
Bear in mind that many people will only be able to know whether they participate after they know the date, and possibly only much later than that.
That said - will someone who attended the previous wineconf tell us how many people participated then? How many days of conference can we make it?
Shachar