21th/24th -> celebrating with family the winter solstice 25th -> visiting the extended family 26th -> visiting friends
27-30th -> congress \o/
31th -> celebrating a new year either close to the congress or with family again
Works very well for very long time. Plenty of families with kids on the congress too and you always have holidays at that time.
Im not single and i'm not 20...
That's already hectic and stressfull without the congress part, especially if any of the preparatinon for those meetups falls to you.
I do enjoy this tbh.
Driving to my family -> i know the route very well, its not much stress;
The travel to the congress is through ICE and i always kinda looking forward to these hours in the ICE too.
And weirdly enough, not that many people are on the road at that time. Its like everyone else is traveling before, then doing nothing after silvester.
I know people who are vacationing who have more stressful schedules.
Oh yeah? And I know people who do extreme sports with an extreme schedule whilst simultaneously breastfeeding. None of this invalidates the people who find any of the above to be too stressful.
I’ve been to congress, will probably attend more too. Some people find the schedule to suck, some don’t. I do not believe it will ever change. I think it is reasonable to find the schedule hectic. My pet theory that this one soft way of keeping the congress more about the chaos communications club rather than it becoming a tech/hacker conference with a strictly international audience. And that is fine.
A lot of people spend more than 1 or 2 days visiting family during Christmas time, and travel long distances to do so.
Perhaps and thats wonderful for these people but stating that only 20 and single can go to the congress is as generic as my response.
The congress was always booked out, its not that the congress has any attendance issues and its not that OP never had the chance to visit and never will have the chance to visit when his/her kids get older.
Btw. i travel too to my family
Yeah, works if you're 2h away from the venue.
Im away 6h from the venue and 3h from my family.
Come on...