Fwd: [Reps] Re: Corona Virus and volunteer events

[Jeff Beatty]

Hi everyone,

For those of you working with the Mozilla Reps to plan Fenix l10n
hackathons in your area, please have a look at this update from the Mozilla
Reps program concerning Coronavirus. Please reach out if you have any
questions.

Thanks,
Jeff

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From: couci via Mozilla Discourse <notifi...@discourse.mozilla.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:04 PM
Subject: [Reps] Re: Corona Virus and volunteer events
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couci <https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/couci>
March 11

Hello Reps,

In light of the recent news about Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its spread
across the world, the Reps Council has met and discussed how we can better
help and protect our volunteers across the globe. Here are the main points
of our discussion.

- First and foremost, we are prompting all volunteers to follow local
regulations and guidance. Right now we can’t make a global decision about
canceling events or funding since the virus spread varies from country to
country. We are though asking you to be conscious and always follow local
rules.
- We are going to fund only local meet-ups from now on. We are doing
that in order to protect our volunteers and ensure that no risks are taken
regarding your health and safety.
- We are not going to fund large scale events (over 200 people).
- If you want to cancel an event or postpone it because of the virus,
that is absolutely ok. If you have already received resources for that
event (swag, budget or both) you can keep those resources for now and use
them for a future event. Just inform Francesca on the bug request.
- We are encouraging you to have virtual events as well, you can find
more resources on how to accommodate that here
<https://discourse.opensourcediversity.org/t/how-to-run-better-online-meetings/312>.
If you need zoom rooms ids for longer meetings, please reach out to me and
I will provide one (We understand that in some countries low bandwidth
doesn’t permit virtual events if you have any other ideas on how to solve
that, reach out to the Reps Council).

Thanks again for everything you are doing for the community and Mozilla. We
are going to closely monitor the situation and adjust our decision as
events evolve.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Reps Council or
to me personally.

We will talk about this on tomorrow’s Reps call as well.

On behalf of the Reps Council and Mozilla’s Community Development team

Konstantina Papadea
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