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Now F8 is cancelled. What are the next conferences in the lineup? Google Cloud Next @ Moscone April 6th comes to mind.

SXSW is (currently) planned for Mar 13-22, which seems dicey.

YC Winter Demo Day is scheduled for Mar 23-24.

Seriously wondering about SXSW. Hugh Forrest keeps pumping out blog posts about events, but no answers to questions about covid and no transparency on the SXSW site.

I live in downtown Austin and just contacted my city council representative asking them to cancel SXSW, or if not to institute some type of preventative measures. For anyone also in town, I encourage you to do the same, or for those coming in from out of town contact @MayorAdler on Twitter with your concerns. The latest update (yesterday) from @AusPublicHealth was "Dont worry, we're tracking Austin residents who recently visited China." Austin residents, really? What about the 70k people from around the world who will soon be here!! Not to mention there are now major outbreaks in four other countries besides China. Inept.

I thought F8 had only cancelled the IRL parts, with a webinar part that remains.

Southern California Linux Expo is still a go in Pasadena, CA next week. decent planning listed in the blog:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/covid-19-and-scale-18x-e...

I understand the caution but I'm glad SCaLE is still on! I've been attending for years and now coming from out of town. Makes me think about responses to COVID-19/coronavirus on a scale from open-source/bottom-up to institutional/top-down. The SCaLE announcement definitely fits the open-source/diy approach.

GPU tech conference at the end of March

Well... That just got cancelled

They've gotta just be working on retooling it to a webinar before the announcement or something. SV in general is very on the ball about the virus - I doubt even their speakers would show up if they tried to hold it.

We'll see. RSA happened in SFO this week. I'm at a couple of (smaller but with international participation) events in the West the next couple of weeks. To be honest, the cancellations so far have been somewhat random. Lots is still going on and people are traveling to events that are happening. Of course, that could all change.

Waiting to book my hotel / air for Next until the end of next week to see what happens. I'll probably opt for the insurance for the first time if I do end up booking.

Red Hat Summit April 27-29 is also in the Moscone Center in San Fran

IO happens in early may IIRC and is bigger than F8.

No word from Google so far though, except that they are listening to CDC recommendations.

Seeing if WWDC or I/O are disrupted would be more interesting IMO.

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