A couple of practical suggestions:
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The poster sessions were weird and there was not a real surrogates of the coffee break where you just walk up to somebody and bother them when they munch on their doughnut, and that’s no good. It can be a good idea to try Mozilla Hubs or Yorb
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Time-zone: if we need to have another remote conference, its should probably not be tailored on one specific time zone. There is just no rationale for that, except that the organising team and student volunteers in this occasions were all based in the UK. For the next conference we might diversity the geographical location of the technical team to democratise the access. Please don’t take this as a criticism to the amazing team behind NIME 2020 - you guys did an incredible job considering everything that was going on and that we didn’t have a protocol to follow. There it is - we probably need to work on a protocol that we would revert to if the conference needs to be moved fully online again.