[corybrown]

It took a while to get there, but this is the right call. All the other big conferences have cancelled, holding this would have been terrible PR.

Question is: How far out does your conference have to be for you to not cancel right now?

[bdcravens]

I just registered for AWS Reinforce (2 day security conference at the beginning of July). I did it feeling pretty good that the worst will have passed by then, but I'd lie if I said I felt 100% about it.

[hn_throwaway_99]

I'm going to put this comment out there and see how in fares in 10 months:

I think it's very likely what will happen with coronavirus is what happens with other pandemics: there are multiple phases, and the second phase is usually the worst. The initial phase usually isn't as severe; there are widespread measures to reduce the spread that bring numbers down after the initial onslaught, and it looks like coronavirus also has a seasonality factor that lessens its contagiousness during warmer months. Come next fall/winter, though, people have put their guard down and have somewhat of a "quarantine fatigue", and that's when the second wave just explodes as latent underlying cases spread extremely quickly.

[TaylorAlexander]

Yep my friends are going to a music festival and late May with tens of thousands of people and I’m worried about that one. I feel like the epidemic will still be ongoing by then, but one hopes it isn’t.

[ghaff]

New Orleans Jazz Fest is late April.

[ncallaway]

I don't know, but I have to imagine the earlier you cancel the easier things are both financially and logistically.

[RDCLder]

I've been wondering about that too. I'm supposed to attend ng-conf from April 1st to 3rd.