[clug] CLUG, ANU and COVID-19

[Steve Walsh]

Hi Folks

I've had an inquiry asking;

"CLUG meets on the 4th Thursday of the month, and the 4th Thursday of
the month is 26th June, will the June BeerSIG or CLUG Meeting be happening?"

from
https://www.covid19.act.gov.au/news-articles/statement-from-act-chief-health-officer-on-stage-2.2-easing-of-restrictions

"Next Friday I intend to sign new Public Health Directions that will
enact our move to Step 2.2 of our plan, which we have modified to ease
restrictions further from 12 noon on Friday 19 June 2020. This will be
subject to a final assessment of the ACT situation (our checkpoint),
from a public health perspective.

The biggest change to Stage 2.2 will see the current limit of 20 people
for gatherings increase to 100 people across all areas, within one
person per 4 square metres."

from
*https://www.anu.edu.au/covid-19-advice/campus-community/university-services/events-on-campus

"Am I able to host groups of my own on campus informally? *

No. The University has decided to implement precautionary measures to
help slow the spread of the virus, including small in person meetings.  "

As ANU is not open to informal gatherings (which our booking for CLUG
falls under), and we would need to substantially reduce the meeting
participant count under ACT Health stage 2.2 measures to meet those
requirements, CLUG meetings are still indefinitely postponed.

When ANU is able to host our meetings again, and the ACT Health
restrictions have further eased, plenty of notice will be provided to
the list to advise when both beersig and meetings will be starting up again.

regards


On 14/3/20 11:17 am, Steve Walsh via linux wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
>
> Yesterday ANU released the first version of their COVID-19 management
> plan. It's available at
> https://services.anu.edu.au/news-events/precautionary-measures-for-covid-19-on-anu-campuses
>
> Within this, they have a section on events, which includes this advice
> for staff;
>
> "As a precautionary measure and based upon the advice from our expert
> panel, we will cancel all public and social events from Monday 16 March
> until the end of semester one, Saturday 20 June. This is a precautionary
> measure that we know will be disappointing for many, but our aim is to
> reduce opportunities for the virus to spread by limiting activity on
> campus without disrupting our essential teaching and research activities. 
>
> Cancellation and postponement will extend to all discretionary events
> including ticketed and non-ticketed public events, public lectures and
> concerts."
>
>
> While I'm sure we all have our own feelings about the impact of the
> COVID-19 virus on our own lives, we must at time like this think about
> the people a step further out from us, our families, friends and
> neighbors. Our actions will directly impact on their health and
> wellbeing, doubly so for those with already compromised Immune systems.
>
> As such, the March 2020 CLUG meeting has be canceled, and the April
> meeting will be reviewed at the start of April, based on information
> from the ACT Health Directorate and any updates to the  ANU management plan.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has
> prepared, or offered, a talk that would have been given in this time,
> and as we go forward, we might very well try some LUG meetings via video
> presentation, but for now, perhaps queue up some of the wonderful
> content available on the Linux.conf.au youtube channel, or take some
> time to complete your own personal projects, and maybe put some thought
> into the associated talk for when we're all back again ;)
>
> Many thanks for your understanding on this difficult decision
>
> Steve
>
> video
> https://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2019/videos
>
> ACT Health
> https://health.act.gov.au/public-health-alert/updated-information-about-covid-19
>
> Federal Health
> https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert
>
>
>

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