Virtual ASTRON office with virtual LOFAR room

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Instead of the LOFAR room and ASTRON building we are trying a virtual office called Sococo. In this virtual office we work, have social chats, and run our daily Station team standup meetings. To some extend it is similar to using Slack. The difference is that during the day we keep our virtual headset icon in Sococo open, so that we can hear it if somebody speaks in the room. This is especially nice for shared coffee breaks and ad hoc collaboration. It is also possible to meet and greet in another room or to remain quite, almost just like in the real world.