[J3] (SC22WG5.6151) Impact of coronavirus on WG5 meeting

[Bill Long]

While I greatly prefer an in-person meeting, I would note that the meeting rooms we have reserved at the Cray/HPE offices are Skype/Teams-enabled with speakers, microphones, and large displays. I had not planned to use these, but could contact the IT people to get things set up if needed. 

Cheers,
Bill



> On Mar 9, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Richard Bleikamp via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> AMD has cancelled all non-essential travel worldwide for the time being.  Corporate VP approval is needed to override the policy, and standards committee meetings are not considered essential. No expected date to lift the restriction.
> 
> Skype, Zoom, Bluejeans, and webex all provide similar capabilities, at least for groups up to 20+ people.  I use all of them weekly for various internal and external meetings (OpenMP Lang, OpenMP examples, flang tech calls, flang status calls, ...).  I think you need to be prepared to use one of these (or something similar), and have tested it with a small subset of J3 perhaps, so you can provide detailed instructions for everyone for a variety of HW platforms.  A poll of expected attendees to see if everyone can use Windows might be useful.  And a headset (wired, wireless / bluetooth) is very helpful in reducing feedback and background noise.
> 
> Does WG5 pay for a subscription for any of the web meeting platforms?  and can we use it for a whole week?  and can we have subgroup meetings in parallel with the same tool?
> 
> Rich
> 
> On 3/9/20 10:48 AM, Steve Lionel via J3 wrote:
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>> I am sure that most of you are aware of increasing restrictions being
>> placed on international (and domestic) travel by employers, and many
>> planned in-person conferences and meetings have been canceled or made
>> "virtual". Our next WG5 meeting is still a few months off, and the world
>> situation may have changed by then, but people are making travel plans
>> now and may need to get approval for travel, so I am wondering what WG5
>> members want to do here.
>> 
>> For those of you who had planned to attend the Minneapolis meeting, do
>> you still currently plan to do so? I think ISO has something we could
>> use for a virtual meeting, but our usual manner of working would be
>> severely disrupted. Your thoughts and suggestions would be welcomed.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 

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