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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Van:</b> Oldskool-list <oldskool-list-bounces@assembly.org> namens Olli Parviainen <oparviai@iki.fi><br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> zondag 10 mei 2020 16:01<br>
<b>Aan:</b> oldskool-list@assembly.org <oldskool-list@assembly.org><br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [Oldskool] ASSEMBLY SUMMER postponed to October</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Kyllä just näin on! Se on niin epistä miten näillä nykyshadereilla
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jokaisella pikselillä on 10x enemmän laskentatehoa kuin koko amigassa. <br>
Yritä siinä sitten jonneille kertoa miten commodore rulettaa.<br>
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Ihan toista se oli 90-luvulla, silloin assemblyille hiihdettiin kesät ja <br>
talvet, suksina oli kuuslankut ja molempiin suuntiin oli vastatuuli ja <br>
ylämäki. Muistan kun kerran keravalla meni sprite jumiin kesken <br>
democompon, mutta ei auttanut jäädä siihen makaamaan.<br>
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On 2020-05-10 08:25, Ilpo Jii wrote:<br>
> Palauttakaa AMIGA pelkästään sinne vitun keskiöön. SItten saatte demoja. <br>
> Nepalla mennään?<br>
> <br>
> PC IS DEAD!!!<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:15 AM Pekka Aakko <pehu@assembly.org <br>
> <<a href="mailto:pehu@assembly.org">mailto:pehu@assembly.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> DAMN IT, too quick send by touching my touchbar ... a bit more<br>
> explanation here.<br>
> <br>
> Aapo Saaristo wrote on 06.05.2020 9.17:<br>
>> Good to see there are plans for keeping demoscene stuff going<br>
>> despite the difficulties piled on the organisation of the event<br>
>> altogether right now.<br>
>> Now that the demoscene is officially on Finland's list of UNESCO<br>
>> intangible cultural heritage of humanity, it'd be a tragedy to see<br>
>> the pandemic and the changes it's forced on the organising of the<br>
>> event used as a means to excise demoscene from Assembly completely<br>
>> or to fully relegate it to a semi-official "side-show" (not to<br>
>> downplay or belittle Scene Lounge and the awesome people making it<br>
>> happen, but I think we can agree it's a pretty far cry from the<br>
>> scene presence we used to have at Summer events even a few years<br>
>> back) or something only happening in the virtual context (that<br>
>> being said, an online event at the original dates could be good<br>
>> fun, too).<br>
>> All the best to the orgs and hope to see everyone, sceners and<br>
>> gamers alike, in the fall 💜<br>
>><br>
>> Br,<br>
>> /AS<br>
> Thanks for the nice words.<br>
> <br>
> These are truly difficult times. For us, the decision was made so<br>
> that we can have better chances of making the event happen. Nobody<br>
> knows what october brings, but our hopes are high. We didn't have<br>
> many (read: no other) options for the fall period than this and it<br>
> does overlap TRSAC unfortunately, which I see that we should not<br>
> overrun. Many from our compocrew are travelling there since its the<br>
> last time they are having this event. Or it might be that summer<br>
> vacations cannot be held at the time. Its the question of what kind<br>
> of space we get for the event, the budget will be heavily slashed<br>
> due to less participants due to space being available. So having the<br>
> "normal" Assembly Summer is just not possible.<br>
> <br>
> I am positive we can keep demoscene activities up and we want to do<br>
> that. But the many constraints are what they are. I am hoping that<br>
> we turn this more into an opportunity, work together with TRSAC for<br>
> example to produce a combined scene effort. Let's see how this<br>
> develops. The online event at the original dates is a real<br>
> possibility that we want to explore and therefore getting feedback<br>
> from the sceners is important to us to decide our action plan. Doing<br>
> something is better than just pure cancellation.<br>
> <br>
> Assembly is committed to be a scene event as well as general<br>
> computer festival. I feel that this is our strength as well, since I<br>
> personally see computer culture being much broader that just demos.<br>
> And we have a nice opportunity to present demos to everyone. Yes, it<br>
> also means we have to cater programme to much broader audience too,<br>
> but I don't see that being a bad thing at all. This is how Assembly<br>
> has operated for the last two decades.<br>
> <br>
> Next year we hope things are more back to normal with wide screen<br>
> compos, bigger creative area and scene lounge. The plans we have for<br>
> 2021 are still in motion :)<br>
> <br>
> We hope we can publish our plans and how we pull this together in<br>
> early June. There are multiple options still, which is a good thing,<br>
> but choosing from them and seeing how we have staff to do those is<br>
> the question. But there are no plans making this "as a new normal",<br>
> Asm Summer 2021 will happen in August once again and Winter 2021<br>
> scene lounge is on the plans. So a lot of demoscene activities from<br>
> us for the next year!<br>
> <br>
> Hope everyone stays safe - and can participate to Assembly, be it<br>
> then virtual and/or physical event <3<br>
> <br>
> Pehu<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Best Regards,<br>
> <br>
> *Pekka 'Pehu' Aakko*<br>
> <br>
> Event director<br>
> Assembly Organizing<br>
> <br>
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