Matthew Wilcox [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 07:58:10AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

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On Thu, 2021-05-27 at 15:29 +0200, Greg KH wrote:

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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote:

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On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

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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