For reference. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jp-morgan-coronavirus-idUSKCN20M0EX

Large FinServs already issued a non-essential international travel ban. Conferences are seen as non-essential. D.

FWIW, Contributors Summit staff is mentioned plan B in our meeting this week. We hope it’ll go on but, we also understand it might not be CNCF’s decision. -- Chris Short He/Him/His Web |

Dan, Let's discuss plan B. It may not be possible to have an event at all. Instead it may make sense to disseminate the information through articles, blogs, interactive content. And then provide

That's also an option if we could choose to get a refund. Example, KubeCon is my last conf for next few months as we are expecting. If it gets rescheduled then I won't be able to join. Another thing

Hi all, Why not just postponing the event (like everyone else is doing)? Virtual conferences might be ok for content/talks, they are totally meaningless for developing new business (as a sponsor,

That makes perfect sense. The question is, do folks get a refund? While virtual is great alternative, I don't see myself spending 4 days watching videos if I may be honest as well. So ideally it

Nothing like face-to-face in my opinion too but better safe than sorry, in terms of everybody's health, and the foundation. Another alternative (besides having a large virtual conference) is to just

I agree that there's no real replacement for face-to-face. However, virtual conference experiences are getting increasingly more interactive and a lot of conferences organize local gatherings for

As a speaker of KubeCon EU 2020, I am currently in China. Due to the influence of COVID19, the embassy of the Netherlands in Beijing is currently closed. I think there is a great possibility that I

Yeah, but... Who can sit in front of a screen for eight hours or more of streaming?! Roger B.A. Klorese (they/them or he/him) Senior Product Manager SUSE 255 King Street Suite 800 Seattle WA

+ 1 to solid virtual conference plan B option. I imagine there will be a lot more people tuning in online so we should make sure the live-streaming tech can handle the load. Fingers crossed

Hi, Given the progression and where we are now with this, as many CDC specialists suggest, containment is no longer an option. Yet the response is still lagging, with organizations and countries

Hi, Switzerland as well as France have just banned all indoor meetings with more than 1000 and 5000 attendees. This new policy will probably be followed by many others EU countries, if not all.

+1 for virtual conference 👍 Best Regards,Vishnu KSCloud Fullstack EngineerM: +(91) 89 39 627115O: +(971) 4 346 3002A: Office 410, The Onyx Tower 2, Dubai - UAE

Dan, It is great to hear about the additional precautions and many steps you are taking to protect the attendees and the foundation. However, we need to keep our options open and consider adding the

+1 Given that a few major conferences have already been called off, I think it’s reasonable to have plan B and share. I hope we don’t have to cancel but given the global spread, safety of

big +1 for Plan B re live streaming/virtual conference-- Zhipeng (Howard) Huang Principle Engineer OpenStack, Kubernetes, CNCF, LF Edge, ONNX, Kubeflow, OpenSDS, Open Service Broker API, OCP,

I agree with the idea of having some plan B in place - or at least understanding the consequences - in the event that cancellation becomes necessary. If the EU were to impose similar restrictions as

I also support the idea of making the plan to have all options in place considering that cases in Italy skyrocketed as well as companies have put complete travel ban and not allowing the entry in some