[LFG] LFG20: call for volunteers for remote organization

[John Lowe]

Dear members of the LFG community,

the LFG20 conference, the 25th International LFG Conference, was due to take place in Oslo from the 23-25 June 2020. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation, we have had to take the decision that the conference now cannot go ahead as planned.

Nevertheless, many of us in the community would still like to hold a conference remotely, in some form or other. In order to do so, we would need one or more people willing and able to organize and coordinate an online LFG20.

We are therefore making this call to the LFG community:

Would you be interested in taking on full or partial responsibility for organizing an online LFG20 conference?

If so, please let me know as soon as possible!

We had many high quality submissions to this year's conference, and the Programme Committee have accepted 18 papers for oral presentation, and 13 papers for poster presentation. Almost all authors have indicated interest in presenting remotely, if LFG20 can go ahead online.

For many of us the annual LFG conference is an important element of our academic and academic-social lives. While an online conference could not replicate that in full, it could go some way to mitigating the loss of the physical conference. Without someone to organize an online conference, we will be forced to simply cancel this year's meeting entirely, which would be an enormous pity both for the community, and for the authors of accepted papers.

So please do think carefully whether you might be willing to take this on, before you delete this email!

Finally, I want to express our great thanks to Dag and Helge, local organizers of the Oslo conference, for all the work they had already put into this year's conference, and also to express our great regret, as a community, that we will not be able to meet in Oslo this June. Many of us were greatly looking forward to it. We hope that it will be possible to host the conference in Oslo in a future year, not too long hence.

John Lowe
on behalf of the Executive Committee of the ILFGA





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