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I feel like it may have been a better idea to move the congress to some time in the summer, because public health restrictions in the winter don't seem to go away.

We've had vaccines since early 2021, and the 2021 winter still had restrictions, now we're two years down the road and looking at another wave and another restricted winter.

I don't see how it's going to be substantially different for the 2023 winter unless there's some new revolutionary thing (e.g. vaccine that prevents infection and spread) or COVID kills itself through evolution.

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If you're interested in a summer congress, visit the GPN[1].

[1]: https://entropia.de/GPN (German)

You mean past summer? Because next summer there's already the camp :)

Summer is not a good time for a Congress, for large event venues like congress centers tend to be fully booked by then. Which leaves camps - but not everyone loves the idea of camping, and then you got the weather gods to sacrifice to (I vividly remember the thunderstorm evacuation...).

Given that virtually every other country in the world seems to have accepted that Covid will be here to stay, Germans will eventually have to take the plunge as well.

Depends on how you want to look at it. Deciding that you, as the current organizing team of a large-scale event, won't be responsible for possibly 10k people catching it on your event is also a valid choice until someone steps up who can live with that. The congress taking place is a not some sort of god-given right.

> large event venues like congress centers tend to be fully booked by then

Isn't that offset by university summer holidays, providing lots of idle lecture halls and student accommodation?

You would be surprised how hard it is to convince a university to offer up buildings for something that large that will come with creative use of the space. There's a reason these kind of events, and at that size, are hosted at specialised venues or trade fair halls.

Is it though? Company events and fairs are typically in Spring and Fall, when people are back from vacation.

> COVID kills itself through evolution

Doesn‘t evolution work the other way around?

Presumably he means "the dominant strains become more virulent but less lethal, leaving them like colds and flu"

The Chaos Communication Camp happens in the summer.

Different type of event, though. Tickets are much more available for that than for Congress; it seems more people don't prefer having to camp out somewhere.

Or, you know, just do it online

The last years have seen an online congress (rc3).

To be honest, its been pretty shit. The meatspace part is what actually makes congress good.

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