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Coder conference shifts to accommodate One Direction fans
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 12 January 2015
Web developer conference DjangoCon Europe has been forced to reschedule its upcoming Cardiff dates after One Direction fans snapped up all the hotel rooms in the city before its attendees could get any.
The event’s organisers explained: “After we made our plans and our announcements, One Direction announced their own mega-event in Cardiff – right in the middle of DjangoCon Europe. One Direction are a hugely popular boyband, and they’ve decided to hold the only two UK dates of their European tour at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium – right in the middle of our conference, on the 5th and 6th of June”.
They continued: “This means that an extra 140,000 people (Cardiff’s population is only 340,000 to begin with) will be in town over those two nights. The result is that the hotels we have been discussing attendee accommodation with have informed us that their rooms are now fully booked. In fact, nearly no hotel accommodation is now available, either in the city or around it on those dates”.
Initially unsure of how to proceed, it was suggested that the event could be cancelled altogether. However, late last week it was announced that “DjangoCon has been safely rescheduled, to start and end two days earlier. All is well”.
