As much as I would like to have Barcamp now and hope that the violence and danger is resolved very soon (cause the alternative is very painful to consider), it is irresponsible to assume this will happen. We must announce the cancellation right away so people considering buying plane tickets or making other travel arrangements will refrain. Due to the travel restriction and warning announcements I would expect that most airlines would offer refunds or credits for any flights inbound to Bangkok this week.
I for one don't want to be responsible for encouraging anyone to come to Bangkok at this time. Therefore I am formally withdrawing my support for this event, encourage my friends to do the same, and will not participate in it. Not what I want but that's where it stands nonetheless. -- Ben On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM, 31o5 Oh <[email protected]> wrote: > bus trip sounds nice, but to get 400 ppl head to bus station or somewhere > is risky enough same as getting people around spu....... > I'd be in and it'll work if it's only few people know each other enough > tho.. > > this is real crazy... shall we have online barcamp then? ustream is banned, > maybe something else. > > Stay safe everybody!!! > > satoko > > http://31o5.com > http://MOZO.in.th/MOZO-SHI > > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:30, Andreas Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> Like I said before. Please stop BarCamp before it is getting worse and >> even the kill zone reaches it. It is not worth to risk any lives in this >> real stupid shooting arounds in Bangkok. >> >> At least the Thailand Open Source and BarCamp Communitry will need more >> bad advertisement in the Press as already caused by Bangkoks Chaos. >> >> I would still offer you to get your people of the Barcamp into a Bus - and >> I mean it like this - and get down here. Make it a real BarCamp. A night >> travel with BarCamps isn't worth and can be big fun to. You start at the >> Southern Busterminal which is far out of the warzone. Than travel down here, >> we will look for a place where you can stay over night, i.e. I could talk to >> our pastor to offer his church for this - it is big enough and I will also >> talk to the people from University. >> >> Make it like this >> Travel the night down to Phuket. Than open the first 24 Hours BarCamp >> NonStop from Saturday 12am to Sunday 12 am the next day and travel up to >> Bangkok again the next night and you will be home about 6/7am in the morning >> ready to start your usual Business. This will give us 24 hours of very >> intensive talks and meetings in a real nonviolent and very friendly >> surrounding. The price would not be much higher I guess as if you would need >> to do BarCamp in Sripatum ;-) Traveling by Bus can be really cheap and big >> fun, especially if you have Bar Campers. Take some CDMA Modems with you and >> you could even have your BarCamp already started inside the Bus. Start >> presenting your talks on the bus screen. This would make it even a 72 Hours >> Nonstop Event! Starting Friday 19PM at the southern Bus Terminal and ending >> on Monday Morning 7am exactly at the same place. >> >> If you are interested to get this running please let us know as soon as >> possible, so we can get you out of this proprietary warzone to a free open >> Source Island. >> >> Andi >> >> >> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Angelo Embuldeniya < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just a heads up that according to local news this morning there's a >>> possibility that curfew may be imposed. >>> >>> And as of last night there now seems to be two protest staging sites, one >>> fixed at ratchaprasong and the other mobile on long trucks..wherever that >>> mobile stage goes, areas surrounding may get marked as live ammunition >>> zones.. >>> >>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:23 AM, proteus guy <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> In light of the escalation and apparent spread and potential growth of >>>> the violence in Bangkok, are we still moving forward with Barcamp? Has >>>> anyone talked to people at Sripatum to determine if they're concerned or >>>> not? I'm concerned that, as the government decides to crack down harder and >>>> clearly has turned the protest site into a kill zone, the reds will go into >>>> insurgent mode and the violence will no longer be contained. Only got a few >>>> days to go and I think this situation is going to get hotter before it is >>>> resolved. >>>> >>>> Opinions? >>>> >>>> -- Ben >>>> >>>> PS: BTW John I'm still waiting for the Sripatum contact info regarding >>>> drink arrangements. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<barcamp-thailand%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Angelo Embuldeniya >>> >>> T1: +973 39940430 >>> T2: +973 33987680 >>> E: [email protected] >>> W: www.linkedin.com/in/angelo >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Barcamp Thailand" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<barcamp-thailand%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Barcamp Thailand" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<barcamp-thailand%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Barcamp Thailand" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<barcamp-thailand%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. 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