I agree with your opinion too. Here, the idea is to have proposals first and then with respect speaker’s choice/convenience the date is to be decided.

Our past meetups have always been with pre-scheduled dates and venues.

This is the very first time HydPy has call for proposals via mailing list. Hence, we are waiting for the kind of response from the community members. Based on responses, we can always plan on your said pattern in future.

However, as the last date to submit CFP is 18^th June, 2017, we ideally should be able to announce it well before the actual meetup date. It is mostly likely to happen on 24^th June 2017.

We have options regarding venue. If we decide early with the talks we can also quickly have venue announced.

We surely will keep related notifications posted on our mailing list so that attendees can plan accordingly.

Thanks.