John grumbles, Alison parties, and Liz can’t stay awake.

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• The BSFA have a Discord server
• First Thursday London pub meetings (“the Tun”)
• CoNZealand announces they’re going online
• Alison is still running for GUFF
• Concentric 2020 is hosting a virtual Eastercon bid session on Easter Sunday
• WiFi SciFi
  • Panel 1: Fear, Hope and Speculative Fiction
  • Panel 2: The Plague-Writer’s Tale
• Zoom has had some problems with respect to privacy concerns:
  • Every Zoom Security and Privacy Flaw So Far, and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
  • The Washington Post was able to view private, archived Zoom videos
  • Bruce Schneier goes in-depth on Zoom’s relationship with marketing
  • Zoom’s response to the technical issues that have been highlighted
• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license