Re: Cancelling GHM 2020 (Hamburg) !?

[Tobias Platen]

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>