On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 07:58:10AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2021-05-27 at 15:29 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > > > > > I know we're all really hungry for some in-person meetups and > > > > discussions, but at least for LPC, Kernel Summit, and > > > > Maintainer's Summit, we're going to have to wait for another > > > > year, > > > > > > Well now that we are vaccinated: Can we still change it? > > > > > > > Speak for yourself, remember that Europe and other parts of the world > > are not as "flush" with vaccines as the US currently is :( > > The rollout is accelerating in Europe. At least in Germany, I know > people younger than me are already vaccinated. I think by the end of > September the situation will be better ... especially if the EU and US > agree on this air bridge (and the US actually agrees to let EU people > in). > > One of the things Plumbers is thinking of is having a meetup at what > was OSS EU but which is now in Seattle. The Maintainer's summit could > do the same thing. We couldn't actually hold Plumbers in Seattle > because the hotels still had masks and distancing requirements for > events that effectively precluded the collaborative aspects of > microconferences, but evening events will be governed by local > protocols, rather than the Hotel, which are already more relaxed. Umm. Let's remember that the vaccines are 33-93% effective [1], which means that there's approximately a 100% certainty that at least one person arriving at the event from a trans-atlantic flight has been exposed to someone who has the virus. I'm not convinced that holding a "more relaxed protocol" event is a great idea. [1] Depending exactly which vaccine, which variant, how many doses, etc, etc https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-preprint-from-phe-on-vaccine-effectiveness-against-the-b-1-617-2-indian-variant/
