A side consideration—assuming a UK-based EAGx is being planned for next year, perhaps that could be planned to co-incide with holidays from UK univerisites, and perhaps be more favourable from applications from students who wanted to attend/​apply to EAG London 2024 but didn’t for the reason Oliver states?
[ aside: I know organising events isn’t an easy thing, just want to make it clear this is more of a consideration rather than a demand :) ]
A side consideration—assuming a UK-based EAGx is being planned for next year, perhaps that could be planned to co-incide with holidays from UK univerisites, and perhaps be more favourable from applications from students who wanted to attend/​apply to EAG London 2024 but didn’t for the reason Oliver states?
[ aside: I know organising events isn’t an easy thing, just want to make it clear this is more of a consideration rather than a demand :) ]
Yes, this is the plan for any potential UK EAGx (though it’s not yet confirmed). Other considerations include:
Running it late enough in the academic year such that students new to EA in the autumn terms can benefit.
Avoiding summer because many students travel/​take internships/​go on holiday.
Ensuring the organisers have capacity to run it (i.e. if they’re students, organising doesn’t heavily affect their studies)
The availability of (cheap) venues.
This means that the spring break is currently our best guess, and as early as possible in that window so as to be further from exams.
The event is already designed to be maximally favourable to UK students so they wouldn’t need to flag this.
[I help run EAGx]