On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 09:36, Russell Coker via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 > > Coronavirus is spreading exponentially as diseases do. People can be infected > for as long as 14 days without showing symptoms, according to Wikipedia 5 days > is the average time for symptoms to develop. This means that we won't know > when it gets really bad until at least 6 days after it has got really bad.
An interesting question is how long after infection a person becomes infectious. On one podcast I've heard 4 days - meaning on average 1 day of infectious but not yet sick. > The only responsible course of action is to significantly scale back public > meetings now to reduce the risk. Perhaps people could consider an IRC or Audio/Video presentation? I don't know the trade-offs or how viable various packages are in practice though and I suspect it will take some effort to work these out. http://openmeetings.apache.org/ https://openvidu.io/ https://jitsi.org/ Or slightly older review https://opensource.com/alternatives/skype > I have raised this matter for discussion on the committee list but with no > reply. So I now publicly propose that all LUV in-person meetings be cancelled > from now until the stage where we know the disease is under control. I can't > imagine that being before July. > > As fun as LUV meetings are, it's not something that's worth risking lives > over. > > I have some plans for online education which could be run at the times we > usually have LUV meetings, follow up here if you want to discuss that. Please > use luv-talk if you want to discuss details of the disease. Perhaps the topics could be proposed and voted on a poll (the venerable luv web site might host this?) I suspect that this type of remote working software is going to be needed for many other organisations than luv in the near future... Andrew _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
