[mch2021-orga] Call for Participation open & ready to share!

[Walter van Holst]

On 2020-08-26 15:27, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:

> (i saw from the comments that this was taken seriously during the
> "field trip", but just by reading the CFP, i got the impression that
> this event is planned to be on a planet different then this one...)

The CfP is mostly on content. And yes, you are right, business is deeply 
unlikely to be like usual. Even if vaccins come online early next year, 
not everyone will have access to them in time. So yes, there will be 
additional communication on that, the CfP may not be the best place to 
iron that out this far ahead in time though.

I would recommend everyone to keep an eye on future communicatons on 
these, which will mostly come from other teams than Content (I presume 
Security, First-aid and Projectleiding will play a role here)

> 
> 2. please clarify if "remote participation" will be available & how: -
> can people submit a video-talk?

Video-talks will be on the agenda of the Content Team in the near 
future. We simply haven't discussed it yet, but my personal take is that 
it is unrealistic not to have those.

> - will the audience be able to watch the straming? use chat to ask
> questions? - etc

In all likelihood, yes. This was the case at SHA2017 and OHM2013 as 
well. This of coure is not the full experience of being there, but it 
would be good to able to participate remotely.

> 3. please add some relevant & contemporary & critical topics, such as:
> sustainable & green technologies ; analysing open data to achieve
> social justice ; using technical skills against opresive regimes /
> corporations..

These topics are most welcome as far as we are concerned. Especially in 
light of the events in Hongkong, Belarus, the United States and 
elsewhere. We wanted to keep the CfP short and to the point. And even 
now people seem to find it overly long. We may have a bunch of follow-up 
blogs on specific topics we like to see. We sort of mentioned them 
already in the CfP, but it's probably worth to flesh a bunch of topics 
further out in future blog posts.

> 4. provide info on how is the ORGA going to cut down our own event's
> carbon footprint (or are we just going to keep on using disel-powered
> generators like there's no tomorrow?) ...

See Niels' response. We hope to be generator-free...

Regards,

  Walter