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...
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.
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.
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
Come on...