[Oldskool] ASSEMBLY SUMMER postponed to October

[Pekka Aakko]

Aapo Saaristo wrote on 06.05.2020 9.17:
> Good to see there are plans for keeping demoscene stuff going despite 
> the difficulties piled on the organisation of the event altogether 
> right now.
> Now that the demoscene is officially on Finland's list of UNESCO 
> intangible cultural heritage of humanity, it'd be a tragedy to see the 
> pandemic and the changes it's forced on the organising of the event 
> used as a means to excise demoscene from Assembly completely or to 
> fully relegate it to a semi-official "side-show" (not to downplay or 
> belittle Scene Lounge and the awesome people making it happen, but I 
> think we can agree it's a pretty far cry from the scene presence we 
> used to have at Summer events even a few years back) or something only 
> happening in the virtual context (that being said, an online event at 
> the original dates could be good fun, too).
> All the best to the orgs and hope to see everyone, sceners and gamers 
> alike, in the fall ��
>
> Br,
> /AS
Thanks for the nice words.

These are truly difficult times. For us, the decision was made so that 
we can have better chances of making the event happen. Nobody knows what 
october brings, but our hopes are high. We didn't have many (read: no 
other) options for the fall period than this and it does overlap TRSAC 
unfortunately, which I see that we should not overrun. Many from our 
compocrew are travelling there since its the last time they are having 
this event. Or it might be that summer vacations cannot be held at the 
time. Its the question of what kind of space we get for the event, the 
budget will be heavily slashed due to less participants due to space 
being available.

I am positive we can keep demoscene activities up and we want to do 
that. But the constraints are what they are. I am hoping that we turn 
this more into an opportunity, work together with TRSAC for example to 
produce a combined scene effort. Let's see how this develops. The online 
event at the original dates is a real possibility that we want to 
explore and therefore getting feedback from the sceners is important to 
us to decide our action plan. Doing something is better than just pure 
cancellation.

Assembly is committed to be a scene event as well as general computer 
festival. I feel that this is our strength as well, since I personally 
see computer culture being much broader that just demos. And we have a 
nice opportunity to present demos to everyone. Yes, it also means we 
have to cater programme to much broader audience too, but I don't see 
that being a bad thing at all. This is how Assembly has operated for the 
last two decades.

Next year we hope things are more back to normal with wide screen 
compos, bigger creative area and scene lounge. The plans we have for 
2021 are still in motion :)


-- 
Best Regards,

*Pekka 'Pehu' Aakko*

Event director
Assembly Organizing

Skype: pekka.aakko Email: pehu at assembly.org
www.assembly.org / Office: Sturenkatu 16, 00550 Helsinki

Snail mail address: P.O. Box 106, 00051 Telia, Finland

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