[Oldskool] Brief update on Summer event

[Jonas Klar]

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From: Pekka Aakko<mailto:pehu at assembly.org>
Sent: Friday, 15 May 2020 12.19
To: Assembly Oldskool mailinglist<mailto:oldskool-list at assembly.org>
Subject: [Oldskool] Brief update on Summer event

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
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Best Regards,

Pekka 'Pehu' Aakko
Event director and Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Assembly Organizing

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