Dear Osmocom community,
during recent weeks, several of you have requested that OsmoDevCon 2020
be postponed to a later point in the year. Some, like Vadim and Rafael,
have already cancelled their physical attendance meanwhile.
I still have hope that the travel restrictions might be lifted again
until OsmoDevCon happens in more than a month of time now, but that's
of course a gamble and I realize people need to have some kind of
reliable planning for travel, rather than waiting until the last day
and then see if they can make it or not.
With some reluctance, I therefore announce that we will postpone the
event to a yet-to-be-determined later point in the year. We could
try to fix a date now, but I think that doesn't make all that much sense
until the situation has cleared up to some extent.
I personally would suggest / prefer to move it to early October.
Rationale; This is clearly after the usual holiday period (no idea if
people will go on holidays in European summer 2020, but just in case).
Please let me know what you think. Also, if you think we should
converge tentative October dates already now, fine with me.
It's really sad to not have our usual meeting. We won't have a chance
to celebrate the 10th birthday of OsmocomBB.
Meanwhile, all the best to all of you. Stay safe and sane, and by all
means do continue to contribute to Osmocom - we're luckily working in
a field where working/contributing remotely is the norm, and not the
exception.
Regards,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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Dear Osmocom community,
it hurts me to make this statement, but unfortunately I have to cancel
my OsmoDevCon 2020 participation in April. The borders are closing due
to COVID-19, even between my home country and Russian Federation. I
have been looking forward to see you all, but this time I won't make
it.
I've seen some ideas in the IRC about making it online, but it would
not make much sense (at least to me) since we all work online anyway.
Meeting face-to-face is what makes the event so nice.
I know that most participants are EU/Berlin based, and the event can
still be held. But would it be possible to reschedule it at a later
date? Maybe in summer or autumn the situation would get better? I will
keep my flight reservation until the end of March, so it would be
possible to change the dates.
Gesundheit!
With best regards,
Vadim Yanitskiy.
Dear fellow Osmocom developers,
for OsmoDevCon2020, we're still missing your contribution. If you're
attending, Please go to https://pretalx.sysmocom.de/osmodevcon2020/cfp
and submit your idea for topics you'd like to talk about.
You can also request talks by others about topics you'd like to hear about.
Simply mention that fact in the abstract and I will remove your name as
speaker and try to find somebody among the team two would talk about that
topic.
Let's try to make sure we have most of the topics together long before the
event, so they can be grouped into tracks, etc.
Thanks for your colalboration!
And special thanks to Vadim and Rafael for submitting proposals long before
everyone else :)
Regards,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
