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On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 17:36 +0000, Sean Mooney wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 18:17 +0100, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've just got the news from my employer that due to COVID19 I cannot 
> > travel to Vancouver in June.
> 
> From a redhat perspective i dont think a decision has been made on if we should attend or not.
ill clarify that slightly in that we do have guidence that "Red Hatters may not travel to attend external events or
conferences with 1000+ attendees, even within their home country."

in the past when the ptg and summit were combinined and we had the devsumit have ment that travel to the openstack even
would not be allowed. At its current size its kind of in a gray zone where its is not banned as a public event but if it
was an internal event the number of redhat employee that would be attending woudl be over the limit we have and the
physical event would be canceled and converted to a virtual only event.

so its tbd if i will be attending too although i have not heard a definitive No at this point but i also cant really
book tickets and flight yet either however the guidance we have been given is to try and default to virtual attendance
were possible.
 
> last time i spoke to my manager we were still waiting to see how thing progress with the assumtion we would attend
> but we might want to plan for a virtual PTG (via video conference, etherpad and email) in the event many cant travel
> or
> that things escalate to a point where the PTG event could be canceled.
> 
> i dont think the foundation has indicated that that is likely to happen but im sure they are monitoring
> things closely as our employers will be so having a plan b might now be a bad thing in either case.
> if there isnt a diverse quoram physically at the ptg it would limit our ability to make desisions as happend to
> some extent in china. it would be still good to get operator feedback but they may also be under similar travel
> restrictions.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > gibi
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