Re: Cancelling GHM 2020 (Hamburg) !?

[Tim Rühsen]

On 19.03.20 17:28, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 04:55:40PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>          
>          due to Covid-19 pandemic we should cancel (physical) GHM 2020.
>          
>          Of course we could wait some more weeks to see how everything works 
> out,
>          but I personally don't see any evidence for a calm down until then.
>          
>          Vaccines are on their way, but it's long way to get an approval for
>          human application, at least here in Germany (like in whole Europe, I 
> guess).
>          
>          We could set up some sort of virtual meeting, like video 
> conferencing,
>          but we lose the part of meeting personally - one of the main reasons 
> for
>          GHM.
>          
>          Are there any ideas / thoughts about this ?
>          Should we wait some time before cancelling (e.g. beginning of May) ?
>          
>      I think that makes sense, if it is possible at your side.
>      Who knows, things may have improved much by then (lets hope that.)
> 
> 
> Whilst I feaer that GHM will probably have to end up being cancelled,
> does it make any sense to do so now?   Are there any penalties for late
> cancellation?
> 
> Perhaps we should wait on the (slim) hope that things will improve in a
> few months.

There is no cancellation penalties for the event itself. The booked
rooms at the same location (Dock Europe) can be cancelled without
penalty up to 30 days in advance.

The advantage of an early cancellation of (physical) GHM is giving
certainty to people who didn't book so far.

But then let's wait until end of April and decide again.

Stay safe !

Regards, Tim

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