Morning all - We have a meeting with LF leadership this morning to discuss the concerns and options. I’ll come back to the group with the information for further consideration.

We had two emails from sponsors and one speaker yesterday and provide the following response: At this time, we are planning to move forward with Cephalocon in Seoul. However, attendee safety is important to us and we are monitoring this closely. If the situation changes and it impacts the event, we will notify all registered attendees, speakers, sponsors, etc.


On Jan 30, 2020, at 4:32 AM, Mike Perez <miperez@redhat.com> wrote:

I'm also concerned about my safety for this event. Moving the date of the event is not going to make a difference as we don't know how long this outbreak will last. We should wait and see how registration numbers go until mid next week and discuss how we want to move forward. I'm doing my best with local Ceph Seoul groups and other promoting.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:10 AM Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.com> wrote:
On 2020-01-28T07:00:43, Matthew Johns <matthew.johns@suse.com> wrote:

Hi Matthew,

I hear you. I think we should inquire at the hotel behind the scenes,
but I also think it's too early to message our attendees without knowing
how South Korea will be affected.

Now, obviously safety is utmost priority, but it seems difficult to
assess how such a force majeure event is going to play out. So far,
South Korea has only seen 4 incidents, all linked to Wuhan province.

I think even a travel ban for all of China is unlikely. Wuhan province,
yes, but I'd suspect other regions will be allowed to travel.

At least that's what I'm hoping!


Regards,
    Lars

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