Monika and I hope, all of you have well returned back home, such as we did yesterday evening.

Let me refer to some topics related to sustainability and improving cooperation, discussed in Tbilisi in smaller groups.

1. One consideration is to set up an easy online content tool (Anniversary Blog) to collect the photos, videos, congratulations, etc. made by the participants and the presentation slides of the International Conference as well. Anna Nikolaeva spontaneously  confirmed being ready to support the  uploads, what she is doing in her Instagran account anyway. And this might be the case for many participants, aside Vigen, etc.

I will setup a basic install within the next days, invite you for an easy sign-up and draft a shortguide.

Of course it is a pity we did´nt make recordings of the excellent presentations. But maybe some would be ready to redo it now. I would be happy to give technical assistance as far as needed and coordinate it.

2. This leads to another consideration to overcome the actual threshold for local cooperation. We could call the situation a “Pandemia 2” and we could apply some lessons learned in Pandemia1:

My proposal and offer to George is to organize a state-of-the art “hybrid conference section” of maybe 2h on the occasion of his planned Suzdal conference mid of September. “Hybrid”  means fully integrated online and local presentations and discussion. So technically going beyond the “local or online” setting such as in Tbilisi.

Maybe 2 or three of the Tbilisi presentations might fit into this “hybrid slot” in Suzdal and so would cover idea 1 and 2.

Within the Anniversary Blog there will be a section to discuss the “hybrid slot” idea.

Please expect my further information and let me know your basic approach and ideas.

Greetings, from Monika as well,
kind regards,
Michael