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- The Assembly 1996 is canceled!
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- This is the official announcement of the Assembly Situation.
-
- There has been a lot of speculation what will happen and what the
- situation is. I hope this news posting will clear most of it, and
- I hope people will spread it across the networks.
-
- 1) The money
-
- Assembly '95 still owes people prizes in money. A very annoying
- situation that we still work on. Romware has _finally_ made
- the asm '95 cd out and we are waiting for the sales data (but
- don't bee too optimistic, we are not. We had the rom ready
- at the beginning of October but its out just now...).
- From this money, all will be spent on prizes. We will have a
- website to serve people on the internet - it will come up
- soonish, we only need some gfx for it.
-
- From all this we will give all money to the prizes. Also,
- at some point, there will be a list of people whom have been
- paid so you can check the situation if need be.
-
- Some people have made 'threats' of sueing: it is ok. They are
- allowed to do that but at that point we don't see any reason
- to continue our work so it is solely up to people to do what
- they want. The situation isn't easy for us either, as we made
- the best party ever and now the glory has been stained with
- this incident. Years of nonpaying work for nothing.
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- 2) Assembly '96
-
- The party will not be held. Mainly the reason is that we don't
- want to start organizing anything with prizes still unpaid.
- I hope someone can organize a good summer event here in Finland
- and we shall see what happens at 97 :)
-
- The people whom have been promised CDs will get them as soon as we get
- them from Romware. We have received 10 promotional CDs, thats all.
-
- In general, people have been very supportive. I thank you all whom
- have called or mailed us and whom have had the patience. Those kinds of
- spirits are rare nowadays and I thank you for giving us some extra
- strength to continue the work that is still in process. Lots of things
- have happened, there has been lots of hopes, and now we have decided
- the way we take. I am sorry if I have missed some emails, I have tried
- to reply every one but I have had a lot of work here, so I apologize
- if some of you haven't received a reply.
-
- Assembly '96 would have rocked, with 2M ethernets and links abroad,
- lotsa new features and stuff for people to enjoy. But again, I hope
- people understand why we don't want to have it, and I feel we have made
- the right choise althou it feels quite sad.
-
- SO, why this all happened? There has been quite wild rumours about it,
- but in short: the damages to the fair centre were a bit too big and
- the insurance company did not pay one sigle penny. Also, we got few
- extra bills that were quite unremarkable but still justified. So, you
- can thank all those people who painted the walls, broke windows and
- demolished the toilets. We should have had the rule that all the
- damages would be taken from the prizes... that way, the damages would
- have been quite much smaller too.
-
- Be it then a success or not, we are working to get the prizes paid.
- And I think they will be eventually, I don't want to give up if people
- still have faith that they will get their shares.
-
- Well, I think this has been short. If someone else wants to know about
- the situation they are free to mail us at assembly@assembly.org, but
- please give us some time to reply, we are quite busy with other work.
-
- I can be reached by email at pehu@assembly.org
-
- Yours sincerely
-
-
- Pehu
- Assembly Organizing
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