[LGM] Proposal to postpone LGM to next year

[Pathum Egodawatta]

Thanks for the message Timothée.

I suppose with this decision LGM in Sri Lanka will be postponed to 2022 as
discussed earlier.

Pathum, for the Sri Lanka local team.

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On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 19:39, Timothée Giet <animtim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks to everyone who gave their opinion on the topic.
> As it appears there is a wide consensus, I confirm we are postponing the
> LGM in Rennes to 2021.
>
> About an online event this year, as several people suggested they would
> like something in this idea,
> we will send a survey to all registered participants, people who
> submitted a proposal, and this list and the create list to evaluate the
> possibility.
>
> We will also update the website very soon to update the information
> about the postponed event and the possibility of an online event.
>
> Cheers,
> Timothée, for the Rennes local team.
>
>
> Le 28/03/2020 à 23:52, Timothée Giet a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thank you Mitch for raising the topic, and to those who already replied.
> > It is very useful input.
> >
> > Indeed, the next day after the last meeting, we (the local team) were
> > discussing if it would be better to cancel LGM for this year... But we
> > decided to go on with the decision taken at the end of the meeting to
> > wait one more month before taking a final decision...
> >
> > Now that we have more feedback from the community, it looks more clear
> > to me that it would be wiser to postpone to next year.
> >
> > About the waste of effort mentioned by Frank, I feel it would be less
> > waste to postpone the event to next year than to wait-and-see longer.
> >
> > And about the idea to make it an online-only event, we are not really
> > interested, as a big part of the value of LGM is the physical meeting.
> > We don't think that making it virtually would be really interesting.
> >
> > I didn't get answer from the others of the local team today, but I feel
> > it's better to answer already, at least with my personal point of view.
> >
> > So, I propose to officially cancel the LGM in Rennes for this year, and
> > to postpone it to next year. Please let us know what you think about it,
> > and if the majority agrees I'm sure we will proceed in this direction.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Timothée
> >
> >
>
>
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