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<p>Hi all, <br>
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<p>as discussed in mails, chats, phone calls and so on there is
obviously a lots of discussion around the covid-19 situation in
Europe and thus our beloved hackfest in den bosch. <br>
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<p>Resuming the current discussions:<br>
- Including earlier trip cancellations, we are down to 32
participants now (coming from 50)<br>
- the local organisers just had a call and told following:<br>
-- We just had a skype meeting with the organizers and mostly feel
like postponing the hackfest for 1 year. postponing for weeks or
months does not make sense as we have no idea how the virus
situation will evolve<br>
-- We also considered having an online hackfest, and a small venue
in The Netherlands (or even my house) for the people already here.
Or the online Dutch team or something<br>
-- And we struggle getting the onboarding day program fixed as the
teachers won't be around</p>
<p>__PERSONAL opinion__<br>
in my personal opinion we should officially focus on multiple
online parallel hack-fests or postpone this as Ray suggests by 1
year so all the work the LOC already did is not wasted.<font
size="+1">By going to the hackfest, aren't we behaving socially
badly? Are we not helping the virus instead of trying to slow it
down [2] like everybody is trying?<br>
</font>__End PERSONAL opinion__</p>
<p> If the official physical hackfest it might help people with
cancellations.<font size="+1"> </font></p>
<p>Ray what do you and the LOC think?</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Marco</p>
<p>[1]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rivm.nl/node/152921">https://www.rivm.nl/node/152921</a><br>
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<p>[2]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v2.gif">https://thespinoff.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v2.gif</a><br>
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Marco Bernasocchi
QGIS.org Co-chair
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://berna.io">http://berna.io</a></pre>
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