[Oldskool] ASSEMBLY SUMMER postponed to October

[Joona-Matias Heikkila]

Kiviä pestiin.

On 10.5.2020 17.01, Olli Parviainen wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     Skype: pekka.aakko Email: pehu at assembly.org 
>> <mailto:pehu at assembly.org>
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