Hi everyone, in Kiel, we're planning for an online event (combined with Kielux). Some of our speakers will join us in person, the rest will meet up via BigBlueButton, and we're also planning for a YouTube stream. The largest Linux conferences that we have in Germany have been dropped without replacement this year, so we hope to fill in the gap a bit, as good as we can. We'll try to start SFD as usual, too, by meeting up for breakfast. (If you want to be a speaker, you're invited to join us :) ) Maren (Kielux-Co-Coordinator) https://kielux.de Am 10.08.20 um 00:39 schrieb Rik Tindall:
Hi Fred and all,
Please enable the SFD framework for those that can, as usual, hold events.
i.e. in New Zealand and some Australian states. Ready to ramp up activity.
Thanks and regards
Rik Tindall
pp SFD Team Christchurch http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd20.html https://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD/
On 2020-08-10 06:57, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
If we're going to the "the usual thing", then we could also make it official, update the website, open the registration pages and so on, and possibly be explicit that these events can either be offline or online.
Some (many?) countries it's illegal &/or too dangerous to do the Usual, eg Munich Germany cancelled many events including: http://oktoberfest.de/en & http://vcfe.org/E/ Even the voracious Olympics were forced to skip.
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ lists 2019 with 59 events. The only global SFD "usual" could be a usual common date, with I guess many or mostly virtuals, & a few physicals with lower attendance.
In Britain & Germany (& I assume most of North hemisphere), people are exploding out of Corona lock down & work from home buildings, & lack of fly away holidays, to local fresh air at beaches, lakes, mountains, parks, to cram a summer's outings (& traffic jams & people congestion) in to just 2 remaining months of August & September.
Trying to tempt people inside buildungs to computer lectures, stands, mains supplied equipment, projectors & slide shows etc, would be futile IMO, unless a month before there was guaranteed rain with a month to advertise & recruit exhibitors & attenders. Maybe next century super computers might predict a month ahead ;-)
Till then, though I was one of the main organisers of SFD for Munich in 2010 & 2011 http://www.berklix.org/sfd/ & have wondered if I should again some time, I definately won't in 2020, it's off to the park, till it rains.
Cheers
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