Nathan Willis

Next year

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Can we _please_ try to avoid this situation:

https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/2015-08/

wherein *every* free-software conference in the world takes place in August? I mean really people. I'm missing out on at least three events -- meaning I would like to provide news coverage of them -- because they're all piled on top of one another.

I know how hard it is from a planning perspective; I work on TXLF. But I can also see the wikis of most of these events' planning teams, where people kick things off with "how about sometime in August?" For example:

- http://emacsconf.github.io/emacsconf2015/

Just don't. There are dozens of other months to choose from.