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

[Brian Friesen]

Hi Steve,

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 7:49 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.

I still plan to attend WG5 in June. Berkeley has not (yet) curtailed
domestic travel.

Having visited the venue for this summer's WG5 a few times already, I
have found their A/V configuration to be straightforward to use. If
remote participants are able to configure Skype on their computers, I
imagine enabling remote participation for WG5 could still be a
productive (if not ideal) way to run the meeting, for both plenary and
subgroup.