[Qgis-psc] The Hackfest and the bug (AKA COVID-19 reaction for the hackfest)

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi Marco, Thanks for sharing here.

The LOC still has the same thoughts, but we'd like to know other's 
opinions so we can decide on our next move.

So all of you, please report!

By the way, we are down to 30 now of which 16 live in NL.

Raymond



On 10-03-2020 14:10, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Resuming the current discussions:
> - Including earlier trip cancellations, we are down to 32 participants 
> now (coming from 50)
> - the local organisers just had a call and told following:
> -- 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
> -- 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
> -- And we struggle getting the onboarding day program fixed as the 
> teachers won't be around
> 
> __PERSONAL opinion__
> 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.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?
> __End PERSONAL opinion__
> 
> If the official physical hackfest it might help people with cancellations.
> 
> Ray what do you and the LOC think?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Marco
> 
> [1]https://www.rivm.nl/node/152921
> 
> [2] 
> https://thespinoff.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v2.gif
> 
> -- 
> Marco Bernasocchi
> 
> QGIS.org Co-chair
> http://berna.io
>