From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adolf Belka To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Call For Partitcipation: IPFire Community Summit 2022 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:14:16 +0100 Message-ID: <74269042-e2fe-93d8-e67d-76491532e7ba@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <2015F4A1-1835-4920-A991-556989E67D40@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6770751008043936873==" List-Id: --===============6770751008043936873== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Yes, it's a shame that it won't be occurring but with the numbers signed=20 up I can understand that. Looks like people are not yet willing to get involved in things like=20 this with Covid19. Hopefully it should be better in 2023. Regards, Adolf. On 25/01/2022 18:39, Michael Tremer wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am sad to announce that I have taken the decision to cancel the event. > > Unfortunately there were not enough people participating to make the event = economically viable as a community event. It would have been great to see the= few people who have signed up, so I hope we will find some alternative way t= o do so. > > Best, > -Michael > >> On 16 Jan 2022, at 14:48, Michael Tremer wro= te: >> >> Hello, >> >> Thank you to everyone who took part in the date poll. >> >> Since activity has calmed here, I have remove two dates from the poll that= have been a no from a number of people which only leaves us with two dates. = I will try to narrow this down with the relevant people hopefully by the end = of the week. >> >> I have also done more research into accommodation and other organisational= things and realised that booking something as early as possible it the best = strategy for us. Hotels have very generous cancellation policies so that we w= on=E2=80=99t lose any money in case we are unable to proceed with the entire = event. That=E2=80=99s why I am going to move everything forward as quickly as= possible so that we don=E2=80=99t pay any excess for short notice planning. >> >> To organise all the logistics, I have set up a new mailing list and sent o= ut invitations to all people who took part in the poll. Please look out for t= hat and subscribe to the list as soon as possible. I will use that to communi= cate anything that does not need to be done in public like logistics and so o= n. For all the rest, let=E2=80=99s keep the conversation going on here. >> >> All the best, >> -Michael >> >>> On 4 Jan 2022, at 22:04, Michael Tremer wro= te: >>> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> I would like to invite everyone to join as at this years' IPFire Communit= y Summit 2022. >>> >>> As you might expect, the Corona virus pandemic is not making things easy = for us. However, we have decided to at least try since things probably won=E2= =80=99t improve too much soon. >>> >>> So here is my proposed itinerary: >>> >>> https://wiki.ipfire.org/ids/2022 >>> >>> As we get closer to the event, we will add more and more details to the s= chedule. >>> >>> In general, I just wanted to have a structure that allows us to be produc= tive and have a good time at working on things together and having lots of co= nversations. Three days should be a good balance between not stealing too muc= h of everyone=E2=80=99s time and still have plenty of time to work on bigger = things. >>> >>> The plan is to organise a nice event space where we can spread out and do= our thing. >>> >>> As mentioned before, nothing is booked yet since we do not know what the = situation will be in April/May. We will work on the basis of current governme= nt guidelines and on the assumption that they won=E2=80=99t change before the= time of our event and/or plan with a little bit of contingency space. I beli= eve this is the best we can do because anything better than that would requir= e us having a crystal ball. That means that - unless guidelines change - we w= ill only be able to admit people to the event who have either been vaccinated= or have proof of recovery from corona virus. A negative test is currently no= t enough according to the rules of Berlin. Hopefully this shouldn=E2=80=99t b= e a big problem for us at all. >>> >>> For everyone who wants to attend, please head over to the page linked abo= ve and add a row to the poll with your name and let us know when you are avai= lable. Please be generous and try to be as accommodating as possible (otherwi= se we will end up with at least one person being always unavailable). This is= not binding yet, but we would like to get a close number of how many people = will actually join in order to plan the event at a right size. >>> >>> Please also start thinking about what you can contribute to the event. Ma= ybe a little talk about something that the others need to be aware of? >>> >>> I am very excited to write you this email because we haven=E2=80=99t seen= each other in such a long time - some of you, I have never seen in person. I= t will be great to finally be back in the same room with everyone of you. >>> >>> All the best, >>> -Michael --=20 Sent from my laptop --===============6770751008043936873==--