[Oldskool] Brief update on Summer event

[Pekka Aakko]

Hey all,

We have been discussing internally a lot how we can do the Assembly 
event in these extraordinary times. We asked you about your wishes in 
our questionnaire, we got a lot of answers and good feedback. I really 
appreciated it, our team appreciated it. Thank you! The normal "you guys 
are killing the scene and it's all doom and gloom in the future" 
messages were also there. Thanks also for keeping up the 20+ year 
tradition on that - never lose the negativeness and pessimism, that's 
the key keeping the scene alive :-)

The main question for us was the online event vs physical one. The 
responses were quite equal, but not entirely when we compare different 
channels where we asked about this. The majority of votes were for 
physical event. So we will be doing most of the demoscene related 
activities on a physical event in October. There will be main screen & 
stage and hopefully scenelounge as well (this is more dependent on our 
staff being able to run the lounge). Naturally, when your budget and 
event size is cut for over 50%, things are not the same as earlier. But 
I am sure we all understand that, we'll get back to the normal next 
year, I hope.

However, since the online option got many votes and our own staff wants 
to do it, so we are looking to create online summer experience in the 
original dates in August and then physical event in October. More info 
on the details once we iron them out, hopefully in 2-3 weeks time we 
should have enough information to publish it to all.

What about TRSAC? I am happy to tell you that we have had good initial 
talks with Puryx and his team and these discussions will continue. I 
feel positive that we can overcome those issues we both have identified 
running the "joint competitions", but they are more on technical side 
and I am confident we can sort them out. At the end of the day I would 
love to offer both TRSAC and Assembly visitors the experience of a good 
party in our own ways, and combined good compos. TRSAC will provide the 
classic rubber ducks to all winners I heard :) We will be posting about 
the progress once we get the work done in our workgroup.

So summa summarum:

- We will have physical event with compos and all (fingers crossed 
because of COVID-19)
- Most probably we will organize also online event to see how it works 
and have some original dates fun
- There will be bigscreen and stage and people get there to celebrate 
their trophies
- TRSAC x ASSEMBLY is on the planning table and it's progressing

Pehu

-- 
Best Regards,

*Pekka 'Pehu' Aakko*

Event director and Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Assembly Organizing

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