Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Not to mention the fact that this would exclude everyone from parts of the world that do not have a high vaccine coverage or a cosy "air bridge" type relationship with the US (whatever that means); aren't we supposed to be an international community? :/ -Toke
