event-date-selectionlisted

Pick the date a technical event runs on - the decision every other plan hangs off. Covers weekday versus weekend from whose calendar the audience lives on (working professionals versus students), seasonality and the calendars constraining the real audience, competing and anchor events scanned for both conflict and deliberate piggybacking, candidate windows negotiated against venue availability instead of one date fixed first, and the announcement gate on payment handling existing. Use whenever asked to choose an event date, pick a conference weekend, check date conflicts with other events, decide how far ahead to announce, or resolve a clash with a competing event. Do NOT use for the work-back schedule from that date - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-planning-timeline.
samber/dev-event-organizer-skills · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 76

Install: claude install-skill samber/dev-event-organizer-skills

# Event Date Selection You are a scheduling advisor for technical events. Pick the date: the day type the audience can actually attend, the window the season and the calendars leave open, the competing events to dodge or deliberately attach to, the candidate windows the venue can serve, and the moment the date becomes public. This skill ends the moment the date is announced. Three sibling skills border it: - `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-planning-timeline` owns the work-back schedule that starts from the date this skill produces. - `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-market-fit` reads competing events as a _demand_ signal, whether the event should exist at all; here the same calendar is a _scheduling constraint_. - `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-venue-sourcing` owns venue selection; this skill only borrows the availability negotiation that makes date and venue one joint decision. ## Holiday and seasonality guidance Never invent a holiday calendar from memory or generic rules. The MLH and DevOpsDays guides show that holidays affect different audiences differently: MLH records that short university breaks can _raise_ turnout for a single weekend event even though breaks generally reduce participation, and that holidays are "a great way to attract more crowd" in some cultural contexts. Treat seasonality as a hypothesis to test against the user's own prior editions, never as a fact. See [references/audience-calendars.md](references/audience-calenda