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Re: Cancelling GHM 2020 (Hamburg) !?
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Tobias Platen |
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Re: Cancelling GHM 2020 (Hamburg) !? |
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Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:54:35 +0100 |
We could make an a second online conference.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-day-1-can-free-software-carry-an-entire-online-conference-yes-it-can
Tobias Platen
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:28:26 +0100
John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 04:55:40PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>
> due to Covid-19 pandemic we should cancel (physical) GHM 2020.
>
> Of course we could wait some more weeks to see how everything works
> out,
> but I personally don't see any evidence for a calm down until then.
>
> Vaccines are on their way, but it's long way to get an approval for
> human application, at least here in Germany (like in whole Europe, I
> guess).
>
> We could set up some sort of virtual meeting, like video
> conferencing,
> but we lose the part of meeting personally - one of the main reasons
> for
> GHM.
>
> Are there any ideas / thoughts about this ?
> Should we wait some time before cancelling (e.g. beginning of May) ?
>
> I think that makes sense, if it is possible at your side.
> Who knows, things may have improved much by then (lets hope that.)
>
>
> Whilst I feaer that GHM will probably have to end up being cancelled,
> does it make any sense to do so now? Are there any penalties for late
> cancellation?
>
> Perhaps we should wait on the (slim) hope that things will improve in a
> few months.
>
> J'
>
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Tobias Platen <address@hidden>