Etiquette

The original ASSEMBLY feeling is made of the interaction of thousands of different persons and the only way to make that feeling a great one is that everybody contributes positively to it.

Back in the day all the participants of the event had the same hobbies and they also shared to a large extent same values. Today ASSEMBLY is open to everybody. The event gathers passionate members of the demo scene, online games, beginner programmers, information technology pros and others who just happen to interested about computers.

In this kind mixed and diverse environment the value which I would like everyone to share is the respect for others and their contributions to the event.

Every single ASSEMBLY visitor can either build or demolish the common party spirit. A good party spirit is built from open and friendly party attitude towards other visitors, which helps you from getting too stressed out from small and large unexpected problems. Those problems can happen to you, to your friends, to total visitors or to the organizing team. It also helps you to appreciate compos and the contributions in those that often require months of very hard work. This attitude is built from small things like shutting down your monitor during those compos, when there are contributions on the big screen. It is also requires that you need to appreciate the fact that some like online gaming more than demo programming. If they do, why get all upset about it? Remember that respect is a two way road: Don't go expecting respect if you can't give it yourself.

This short etiquette applies to each and every ASSEMBLY visitor: old demo scene farts, net addicts, online games, IRC-a-holics, IT pros as well as the top hax0r in the neighborhood.

Don't be the dude who ruins the party for others.

Distilled version:

Treat others like you'd like them to treat you.

-- Jussi Laakkonen a.k.a Abyss // ASMORG & Future Crew
ASSEMBLY main organizer - On the demo scene since '92, computer gamer since the early '80s.