DConf 2020 Canceled

[SashaGreat]

On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 08:28:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 21:58:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Let's do a little online thing instead! We could do a chat 
>> room, livestream, blog, you know stuff like that.
>
> As has already been echoed in prior messages, I too am sad but 
> not surprised by this announcement, particularly as every other 
> tech conference or meeting has been met by the similar fates 
> over the last few weeks.
>
> If running Dconf as an online operation is of interest to any 
> of the organizers, take a look at how LibrePlanet2020 is 
> running their shop.
>
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-day-1-can-free-software-carry-an-entire-online-conference-yes-it-can

First I totally agree with Online Conference, but on the other 
hand I don't think this will fly in this community, because for 
what I see unfortunately Walter is trapped in the past and for 
him it's: in-person meeting or NOTHING.

I came to this conclusion after seeing his responses in this 
thread, like:

> I'm pretty upset about it, I was really looking forward to it. 
> But we really had no choice.

Well we have a choice, online meeting.

> Next year, we're going to have it even if a meteor strike is 
> imminent :-)

I know it's a sarcasm, but by this response he prefer to put 
people's life in risk instead of trying an online version and see 
how it goes.

> There's just nothing like an in-person meeting, and hefting a 
> pint with friends and colleagues that makes our differences 
> melt away.

Of course, but in this case an online version would be better 
than nothing.

In the end Walter could have said let's try something online and 
see how it works, but there were no incentive, and this is 
strange in the period of time where meeting online is pretty 
standard and cheaper for many of us.

Sasha.