[LGM] Cancel LGM please

[Michael Natterer]

Sorry, but...

no, just no. Stop that nonsense! People are dying and will keep
dying for a while. This won't be "the local organizers' decision".

LGM can't happen in 2020, period.

Annoyed,
Mitch

On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 15:40 -0500, Frank Trampe wrote:
> There are clearly a lot of trade-offs and uncertainties here, and
> there are
> a lot of differing predictions. One thing that is certain is that we
> will
> all be a lot smarter and better informed in a month, and the cost of
> buying
> airfare does not increase considerably so long as we make the 28-day
> cut-off. It is indeed important to discuss and to develop
> rescheduling
> options and remote meeting options for those who are interested. But
> it is
> also important keep our options open for as long as it is practical
> to do
> so, which I think is the week of April 20th. At that point, if the
> local
> organizers still want to host, we can figure out who wants to attend
> and
> who wishes not to attend and turn to the alternatives we have hashed
> out
> (canceling, rescheduling, or meeting over the Internet) if projected
> turn-out looks too low.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 3:21 PM Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 19:29 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 21:04 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:20 PM Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > But i also suggested that the organizers post to the LGM
> > > > > mailing
> > > > > list
> > > > > to propose postponing the event by a year. We need to remain
> > > > > consensus-
> > > > > driven. So, thanks for posting about it, Mitch :D
> > > > 
> > > > As other people already said, an online-only event would make a
> > > > perfect sense.
> > > 
> > > I disagree,
> > > 
> > > LGM is all about meeting people, watching some streams is lame.
> > 
> > As i said in #lgm,  <ankh> the whole point of LGM is to have a
> > physical
> > meeting
> > 
> > For my part the conference is secondary. If it was a peer-reviewed
> > academic conference it'd be another matter, as it would affect
> > careers
> > and funding (and probably also not be interesting :D :D)
> > 
> > Would a good compromise be to have a shared hangout as a
> > possibility,
> > where people in various projects keep cameras going, and try to
> > make an
> > extended hacking session with cross-group stuff?? I'm not sure.
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/
> > 
> > Full-time slave in voluntary servitude.
> > 
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