For what it’s worth, Wikimedia Germany is in full work-from-home mode starting next Monday, and a lot of many employees have already gradually started working from home over the past days (apart from those who work remotely anyways, of course). Announcement (in German): https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/03/12/information-anlaesslich-covid-19-geschaeftsstelle-stellt-auf-remote-arbeit-um/
Best wishes, Lucas On 12.03.20 19:33, James Heilman wrote: > 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 <rebeccanin...@gmail.com> > 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 <dar...@alk.edu.pl> >> 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 <risker...@gmail.com> 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
