Re: Cancelling GHM 2020 (Hamburg) !?

[Tim Rühsen]

Thanks for the pointer, Tobias.

Let's come back to this solution when we decide against a physical meeting.

Regards, Tim

On 19.03.20 18:54, Tobias Platen wrote:
> 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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