Dear fellow developers,

given the rather unfortunate development of the pandemic both globally
with Omicron, as well as particularly locally in Berlin, I decided to
further postpone an on-site OsmoDevCon.  At least the late April / early May
time frame seemed unrealistic.

Shifting the event further towards or into summer seems more realistic from
a pandemic point of view, as experience over the past years has shown much
lower infection rates then.  However, there are of course holiday plans, etc.
that might more likely conflict with OsmoDevCon at such a time.

I have started a poll at https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TrmQAhYOWA/
in order to understand whether there's a preference for a specific month,
and I'd like to invite everyone to state their preference in this poll
(can also be done anonymously).

The venue and format can of course also still be discussed.  I would think
that having everyone in the same hotel would reduce the amount of contacts,
as not every participant meets different hotel staff, has to commute through
a city spending time with hundreds of other different people every day in
public transport or the like.  This might of course increase cost, but I'm sure
we can find a solution for that.

One of the random thoughts I had was to use https://www.linuxhotel.de/ -
a hotel + conference venue specifically dedicated to FOSS with plenty of
outdoor space.  However, it's at least a 35min cab ride from the closest
airports (DUS, DTM) and about an hour from CGN.  For people arriving
long distance by car or train there's probably little difference
compared to Berlin.

Regards,
        Harald

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- Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org>            http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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