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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Given that the onboarding day is already messed up due to missing speakers/mentors, I would suggest to postpone the meeting for one year, as Raymond suggested.</p>
<p>Raymond also seems to prefer this option to keep the sponsor contributions for a real next meeting in a year from now.</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2020-03-10 14:10, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:</p>
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<p>Hi all, </p>
<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. </p>
<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.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">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 /></span>__End PERSONAL opinion__</p>
<p>If the official physical hackfest it might help people with cancellations.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></p>
<p>Ray what do you and the LOC think?</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Marco</p>
<p>[1]<a class="v1moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rivm.nl/node/152921" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.rivm.nl/node/152921</a></p>
<p>[2] <a class="v1moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v2.gif" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://thespinoff.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v2.gif</a></p>
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