Dear
OS Community worldwide!
Whatever
happens is the only thing that could have… We hereby inform you – with regret, let’s say
it ones before we look forward – that we decided to stop the
preparation of the WOSonOS 2020 planned to be held October 29 through 31,
2020.
After a
careful review of the current circumstances and the possible
developments of the COVID-19 pandemia we came to the
conclusion that we can not held the event as planned. At the
moment it would be unrealistic to conduct the event in a
face-to-face format in fall 2020 here in Berlin. We as the
sponsor and all those who want to participate and would have
to book their trip in advance would be left with the
cancellation costs.
The
alternative option to hold the WOSonOS as an online event
instead is clearly not our choice. For us this would be a
different meeting than the one we are entrusted with, and we
have no passion to do it online.
The
ones who already registered, 43 participants from Iceland,
France,
Canada, Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Sweden, US, Italy, Spain,
Malaysia,
Switzerland and Germany, are already informed personally and
their
participation fees will be fully refunded.
Next
steps: We are currently checking the option to
postpone the WOSonOS to 2021. Therefore it would be helpful
to know whether a designated team for 2021 already exists?
If so, please contact us and we will figure out where the
next WOSonOS
will take place. Our preparations are on a hold – and whenever the time is right we (and the venue manager) are ready to invite
you to Berlin. It is still a wonderful place to get in touch
in Open Space on Open Space and we appreciate the
opportunity to host it whenever it starts.
Take good
care and stay well,
Dietmar, Jo, Julia, Juliane - WOSonOS sponsor team
boscop and reinblau cooperatives, berlin
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