<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:11 PM Sean Mooney <<a href="mailto:smooney@redhat.com">smooney@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 17:36 +0000, Sean Mooney wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 18:17 +0100, Balázs Gibizer wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> > <br>
> > I've just got the news from my employer that due to COVID19 I cannot <br>
> > travel to Vancouver in June.<br>
> <br>
> From a redhat perspective i dont think a decision has been made on if we should attend or not.<br>
ill clarify that slightly in that we do have guidence that "Red Hatters may not travel to attend external events or<br>
conferences with 1000+ attendees, even within their home country."<br>
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in the past when the ptg and summit were combinined and we had the devsumit have ment that travel to the openstack even<br>
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<br>
was an internal event the number of redhat employee that would be attending woudl be over the limit we have and the<br>
physical event would be canceled and converted to a virtual only event.<br>
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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<br>
book tickets and flight yet either however the guidance we have been given is to try and default to virtual attendance<br>
were possible.<br>
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> last time i spoke to my manager we were still waiting to see how thing progress with the assumtion we would attend<br>
> but we might want to plan for a virtual PTG (via video conference, etherpad and email) in the event many cant travel<br>
> or<br>
> that things escalate to a point where the PTG event could be canceled.<br>
> <br>
> i dont think the foundation has indicated that that is likely to happen but im sure they are monitoring<br>
> things closely as our employers will be so having a plan b might now be a bad thing in either case.<br>
> if there isnt a diverse quoram physically at the ptg it would limit our ability to make desisions as happend to<br>
> some extent in china. it would be still good to get operator feedback but they may also be under similar travel<br>
> restrictions.<br>
> > <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I personnally have concerns with virtual events that are large like our PTG :</div><div> - which timezone should we use for the virtual PTG ? Anyway, Asia, Europe or North America folks could have problems with one.</div><div> - some folks (like me) have bandwidth issues in their (home) offices. They could be having problems when trying to discuss</div><div> - how can we be sure that all of us can discuss by a virtual meeting ? Not saying it won't work, but discussions could take more time.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I'm sad for you, gibi. I'm not -2 about a virtual PTG, I just want to make sure we think about the above concerns before agreeing with any virtual PTG.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> > cheers,<br>
> > gibi<br>
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