[Battlemesh] WBMv13 and COVID-19

[Filipe Borges Teixeira]

Hi,

We are writing to you to give some update on the WBMv13 organization. On
Feb 1st the public poll for voting on the best WBMv13 (Calafou, Barcelona)
dates was published. The poll ended on Feb. 7th, and we immediately started
to work with the local team, Calafou and our sponsors for the most voted
date: May 25-31, 2020.

The recon mission was initially planned for late February, then it was
moved to March 7-8. However, due to the quick developments of COVID-19, we
decided to postpone the recon mission. Weekly meetings with the mentor
team, the local team, and Calafou were made in order to keep monitoring the
situation.

COVID-19 has recently been characterized as a pandemic by the World Health
Organization and in Spain the scenario is getting worse daily (Catalonia
has been confined today). The same is happening in most of the European
countries and all across the globe, with many people performing remote
work, schools and flights canceled and many services disrupted. At this
point, we believe it is not reasonable to keep trying to organize WBMv13 in
May and we are working on other alternative dates to organize WBMv13, for
instance in September. Let's hope that this will be over within some weeks
or months.

We are actively monitoring the situation and will send further updates in
the upcoming weeks. At some point, we will make another poll for selecting
the best date.

Thanks for everyone that has voted and keep safe.

Best Regards,
WBMv13 mentor team
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