Does anyone know if WD42 ever started up again after COVID? Or, what happened?
From memory they tried. I got an email from them at one point about starting up again, but I haven’t heard anything for quite some time now.
Yeah their web presence was never strong, but that seems to have dried up now too. But you have reminded me they had a mailing list, I should see if I can find when the last email I received was. 
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The last I heard from David, the previous organiser, was that they were looking for someone new to run it who had the spare time to do so. And probably a new venue as well.
Aha! That’s probably it then.
Last mailing list email seems to be April 26 2020 for an online event, and that was it. 
Shame, the presentations were good, and a good turn out too.
You’re all correct!
After we shut down for COVID we tried a few online events and then some in-person nights without talks. It was not enough to get momentum going so I never managed to muster the energy to start things up again properly.
We’ve lost the venue we were using and the food and drink sponsorship so those are things that I feel would need to be handled before we could start up again. I did have an interesting conversation a few months ago which gave me some hope of reviving the event. I’ll be following up on that again soon.
their web presence was never strong
Love the irony 
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Thanks for the concrete information. Good luck with the revival, it was definitely a good value event for Hobart. Was great to get insight to what some of the other development activity around the place was - and what direction.