If you walked through the corridors of our EORC offices this week, you might have had the same thought as many confused colleagues:

“Where is everybody?”

Yes, we know the meme.

But before you assume a mysterious disappearance, spontaneous field campaign, or a secret expedition to map glaciers with drones — don’t worry. Everyone is safe. They are just… in meetings.

Lots of meetings.

The EO4CAM Phenomenon

Over the past weeks, the EO4CAM project has entered an important phase with important visitors coming to our EORC (for more details stay tuned and visit remote-sensing.org again). With major technical discussions, planning sessions, and coordination meetings taking place almost daily, it has become the gravitational center of office life.

At times, 10+ of our roughly 40 team members can be found simultaneously deep in discussion — not in their offices, but in meeting rooms, hybrid calls, or clustered around screens debating important project details.

From outside the meeting rooms, it can look a bit like a scientific version of the famous meme:

Office corridor: quiet
Open doors: empty
Meeting rooms: full of people pointing at slides

Of course, these meetings are not just coffee-and-slides sessions. Progress requires discussion, coordination, and sometimes a lot of whiteboard sketches.

So if you walk down the hallway and think:

“Where is everybody?”

The answer is simple:

They’re probably in another EO4CAM meeting.

And judging by the animated discussions coming from the conference rooms, something interesting is definitely happening in there.

Stay tuned — once everyone returns from the meeting rooms, we might even see them again in their offices.