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 to do so.
Best, -Michael
On 16 Jan 2022, at 14:48, Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote:
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 won’t lose any money in case we are unable to proceed with the entire event. That’s why I am going to move everything forward as quickly as possible so that we don’t pay any excess for short notice planning.
To organise all the logistics, I have set up a new mailing list and sent out invitations to all people who took part in the poll. Please look out for that and subscribe to the list as soon as possible. I will use that to communicate anything that does not need to be done in public like logistics and so on. For all the rest, let’s keep the conversation going on here.
All the best, -Michael
On 4 Jan 2022, at 22:04, Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote:
Hello everybody,
I would like to invite everyone to join as at this years' IPFire Community 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’t 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 schedule.
In general, I just wanted to have a structure that allows us to be productive and have a good time at working on things together and having lots of conversations. Three days should be a good balance between not stealing too much of everyone’s 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 government guidelines and on the assumption that they won’t change before the time of our event and/or plan with a little bit of contingency space. I believe this is the best we can do because anything better than that would require us having a crystal ball. That means that - unless guidelines change - we will 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 not enough according to the rules of Berlin. Hopefully this shouldn’t be a big problem for us at all.
For everyone who wants to attend, please head over to the page linked above and add a row to the poll with your name and let us know when you are available. Please be generous and try to be as accommodating as possible (otherwise 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. Maybe 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’t seen each other in such a long time - some of you, I have never seen in person. It will be great to finally be back in the same room with everyone of you.
All the best, -Michael