Agree 100% with Risker. Now is not the time to be taking risk. I would be much happier if a year from now we looked back and said we overreacted than if we looked back to realize we did not react enough.
James On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:27 AM Rebecca O'Neill <[email protected]> wrote: > The Irish government have closed all schools, childcare facilities, > colleges, universities and other public institutions until 29 March. The > current advice is not to have any gatherings of 100 people, but everyone I > had planned events with for the next month has decided to cancel/postpone > even at a much smaller scale. > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 10:55, Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear Risker, > > > > Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This > > is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can > > follow suit. > > > > All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski) > > cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too. > > > > Best, > > > > DJ "pundit" > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual > > meetings, > > > it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups > (formal > > > and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. > For > > > the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the > > > standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week). Edit-a-thons > > and > > > similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future. The > > broad > > > movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security > of > > > its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is > > > probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say. > > > #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and > > our > > > movement can be leaders in showing how it is done. > > > > > > I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with > > SARS > > > patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans > for > > > hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's. > > But > > > given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason > > not > > > to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a > > better > > > sense of how this will all play out. > > > > > > Risker/Anne > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > PhD in Digital Media > Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie> > She/Her > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
