[Oldskool] ASSEMBLY SUMMER postponed to October

[Olli Parviainen]

Kyllä just näin on! Se on niin epistä miten näillä nykyshadereilla 
jokaisella pikselillä on 10x enemmän laskentatehoa kuin koko amigassa. 
Yritä siinä sitten jonneille kertoa miten commodore rulettaa.

Ihan toista se oli 90-luvulla, silloin assemblyille hiihdettiin kesät ja 
talvet, suksina oli kuuslankut ja molempiin suuntiin oli vastatuuli ja 
ylämäki. Muistan kun kerran keravalla meni sprite jumiin kesken 
democompon, mutta ei auttanut jäädä siihen makaamaan.


On 2020-05-10 08:25, Ilpo Jii wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
> 
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