[TriLUG-announce] Coronavirus and TriLUG

[Mauricio Tavares]

      As you have noticed, things have been getting interesting due to
the COVID-19. To name a few since I type slowly,

- UNC in Chapel Hill has prohibited gatherings with more than 50
people [1]. Regardless of the wording, it has been interpreted by many
as faculty, staff, or student are not to be somewhere with more than
that magic number.
- NCSU has a similar rule but with its limit raised to 100 people [2].
- The governor of NC ordered the IEEE SoutheastCon 2020 closed
yesterday. I do not know what the few speakers and participants who
have flown to Raleigh will do until they are scheduled to fly back.
- Classes have been cancelled, Spring Break "extended", and online
classes replacing physical ones planned.
- Our own March meeting at the School of Textile was cancelled, with
emails sent about the cancellation from both the mailing list and
meetup with a link for a virtual meeting instead.

So, how does that affect the TriLUG? Well. let's avoid using weasel words:

All of our live events are cancelled until further notice.

That includes at the very least the planned Kubernetes class in the
end of the month and next month's meeting. Hopefully by then the
weather would have warmed enough so the virus' grasp will have
subsided. Of course the mailing list and irc channel will still be
available; they are susceptible to other kinds of infection.

Be prepared for other conferences and events to be cancelled.

I am not going to do the standard "we will be judiciously monitoring
the statues of the coronavirus" message since you can keep track of it
on your own as well as we do.  With that said, if you have questions
do ask us. Worse case scenario is we will say we do not know the
answer.

And stock on food and water, for you can only eat so much toilet paper.

[1] https://www.unc.edu/coronavirus/
[2] https://www.ncsu.edu/coronavirus/