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

[Bill Long]

I plan to be there, and have not made any plan changes for the meeting, at least so far.   Airline flights seem to be operating normally, except that the twice daily flights to/from Tokyo have been temporarily  cut back to 5/week.  I suspect his is mostly due to lack of demand, rather than an intentional effort to avoid visitors from specific places. (MSP does not have direct flights to China, Iran, or Italy.)

Cheers,
Bill



> On Mar 9, 2020, at 9:48 AM, Steve Lionel via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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