Zack's Kernel News
Zack's Kernel News
This month in Kernel News: Kernel Gatherings Canceled Due to COVID-19; Kernel Meta-Organizations Changing Due to COVID-19; and Minimum Version Numbers for Build Tools.
Kernel Gatherings Canceled Due to COVID-19
There are normally many Linux and open source conferences throughout the year. These have started to see some disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March, Josef Bacik announced that one of the storage, memory, and networking summits would not be happening in April as planned. He said:
"We currently do not have concrete plans about how we will reschedule; the Linux Foundation is working very hard at getting us alternative dates as we speak. Once the new plans are concretely made, we will notify everyone again with the new plans.
"The tentative plan is to keep the attendees as they are if we reschedule within 2020. This includes anybody that declined for travel-related concerns. We will re-send all invitations again to the original invitees so it's clear that you have been invited.
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