[Standards] Utrecht -- cancellation of the meeting

[Odijk, J.E.J.M. (Jan)]

Dear Piotr,
Thanks for your message. Canceling the meeting  is a difficult but I fear unavoidable decision. 
Jan

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> On 12 Mar 2020, at 22:48, Piotr Banski <banski at ids-mannheim.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Given the overall wave of reactions to the coronavirus pandemia, and given the warnings from some of the participants who have registered for the meeting that they are either considering cancellation, or may be forced by their institutions to cancel, and given also the news that the Utrecht University actively discourages all kinds of meetings on its venues, I am absolutely unhappy to announce that the upcoming CSC hands-on meeting in Utrecht has been cancelled.
> 
> At this moment, I do not suggest holding a virtual meeting in its place on the same date(s), (a) because the whole point was about locking ourselves up in one area and not leaving until we deliver and (b) because given the pace at which the institutional and political reactions to the pandemia proceed, I believe that not everyone will be in either the mood or the state to talk about parameters for standards description and the like.
> 
> This is not to say that, as a committee, we should switch to idle gear. There are enough tasks that we can perform in the meantime, at least partially in preparation for a better date of the hands-on. But I will postpone these suggestions to a later message -- this one is already a big enough information pill.
> 
> With best regards and a heavy heart,
> 
>    Piotr
> 
> 
> -- 
> Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
> Senior Researcher,
> Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
> R5 6-13
> 68-161 Mannheim, Germany
> 
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