<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>I wouldn't have been able to make it personally but I'm sorry it won't happen this year - but thanks to everyone who put in so much effort! </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 12:02 +0100, Charlie Harvey wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Hi all,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Aww. That's a shame.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>However, I just wanted to thank everyone involved in what seems to have</pre><pre>been a quite fraught process.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Organizing an event at such short notice for the first time was always</pre><pre>going to be a challenge and getting close enough that it nearly happened</pre><pre>was no mean feat.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Hats off to you all :-)</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Cheers,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On 12/06/2019 09:31, BarnCamp wrote:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>To all those who were hoping to come to BarnCamp this year, we're sorry</pre><pre>to have to announce that we've been forced to take the very difficult</pre><pre>decision to cancel BarnCamp this year.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>We've been beset by a number of difficulties, some human and some</pre><pre>technical. For the last few weeks it's felt as if no sooner had we found</pre><pre>a solution to one problem than another one would appear. In the end,</pre><pre>despite a huge amount of work being put in, we've had to admit that</pre><pre>there was just no way to make it work this time.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Of course those who were expecting to come will be disappointed -</pre><pre>including ourselves. You will no doubt want to know what went wrong and</pre><pre>why it couldn't be fixed. In order to maximise what we can learn from</pre><pre>what happened, there will be a post-mortem announced soon on the</pre><pre>hacktionlab mailing list, after which we will report more fully. If you</pre><pre>aren't already a member, please join so that you hear about further</pre><pre>developments by visiting this web page:</pre><pre><a href="https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab">https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>We will refund all payments that we've received back to the bank account</pre><pre>they originated from. This will take a few days to process as each</pre><pre>payment has to be processed manually. If you haven't received your</pre><pre>refund within a week of this email, please contact</pre><pre><a href="mailto:barncamp2019@hacktionlab.org">barncamp2019@hacktionlab.org</a> with your account details, what payment you</pre><pre>were expecting, and the six-digit code you were issued when you registered.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The good news is that Highbury Farm and our caterer Becky are still</pre><pre>happy to work with us next year, and we have the benefit of the learning</pre><pre>from efforts this time and previous BarnCamps.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>All the best,</pre><pre>Members of the BarnCamp2019 collective</pre><pre></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>HacktionLab mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:HacktionLab@lists.aktivix.org">HacktionLab@lists.aktivix.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab">https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>