FWIW CFAR workshops were not AIUI funded by Sam Bankman-Fried and are not officially discontinued—though CFAR hasn’t done mainline workshops for a while it’s done various other less-public workshops and projects, and I think there’s a good chance that there will be at least something similar to the old mainline CFAR workshops in the future...
I was refering specifically to the CFAR workshop in Prague. The remote event location was bought with SBF funds and without any income, doing further renovations / paying staff etc. was impossible. I think its still in limbo, since I haven’t heard any news in the past few months.
CFAR has run European workshops in Czechia for many years, I think starting in… 2017 maybe, though with a break for the pandemic.
The venue used for workshops in 2022 was bought/is run by separate organizations from CFAR and holds a bunch of stuff besides CFAR workshops; I’m not totally up on what’s going on over there or the financial situation with the venue but I believe at least some events are still being held there.
Before that venue was acquired CFAR ran a bunch of European CFAR workshops in other venues; insofar as that venue does end up having to close down or whatever it would not in principle prevent CFAR from doing workshops elsewhere, potentially going back to some of the sites it used in the past, etc.
FWIW CFAR workshops were not AIUI funded by Sam Bankman-Fried and are not officially discontinued—though CFAR hasn’t done mainline workshops for a while it’s done various other less-public workshops and projects, and I think there’s a good chance that there will be at least something similar to the old mainline CFAR workshops in the future...
(source: work for CFAR sometimes)
I was refering specifically to the CFAR workshop in Prague. The remote event location was bought with SBF funds and without any income, doing further renovations / paying staff etc. was impossible. I think its still in limbo, since I haven’t heard any news in the past few months.
CFAR has run European workshops in Czechia for many years, I think starting in… 2017 maybe, though with a break for the pandemic.
The venue used for workshops in 2022 was bought/is run by separate organizations from CFAR and holds a bunch of stuff besides CFAR workshops; I’m not totally up on what’s going on over there or the financial situation with the venue but I believe at least some events are still being held there.
Before that venue was acquired CFAR ran a bunch of European CFAR workshops in other venues; insofar as that venue does end up having to close down or whatever it would not in principle prevent CFAR from doing workshops elsewhere, potentially going back to some of the sites it used in the past, etc.