[Oldskool] ASSEMBLY SUMMER postponed to October

[Ilpo Jii]

Palauttakaa AMIGA pelkästään sinne vitun keskiöön. SItten saatte demoja.
Nepalla mennään?

PC IS DEAD!!!

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:15 AM Pekka Aakko <pehu at assembly.org> wrote:

> DAMN IT, too quick send by touching my touchbar ... a bit more explanation
> here.
>
> 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. So
> having the "normal" Assembly Summer is just not possible.
>
> I am positive we can keep demoscene activities up and we want to do that.
> But the many 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 :)
>
> We hope we can publish our plans and how we pull this together in early
> June. There are multiple options still, which is a good thing, but choosing
> from them and seeing how we have staff to do those is the question. But
> there are no plans making this "as a new normal", Asm Summer 2021 will
> happen in August once again and Winter 2021 scene lounge is on the plans.
> So a lot of demoscene activities from us for the next year!
>
> Hope everyone stays safe - and can participate to Assembly, be it then
> virtual and/or physical event <3
>
> Pehu
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> *Pekka 'Pehu' Aakko*
> Event director
> Assembly Organizing
>
> Skype: pekka.aakko Email: pehu at assembly.org
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>
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