EuroLLVM'20 cancellation notice.
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+ <li><a href="#Cancellation">Cancellation</a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#dates">Important Dates</a></li>
<li><a href="#program">Program</a></li>
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- <li><b>Conference dates</b>: April 6-7, 2020</li>
- <li><b>Location</b>: <a href="https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/parst-paris-marriott-rive-gauche-hotel-and-conference-center/">Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France</a></li>
- <li><b>DICT</b>: April 5th, 2020 2:00 - 6:00PM</li>
- <li><b>Newcomers orientation</b>: April 5th, 2020 6:00 - 6:30PM</li>
+ <li><s><b>Conference dates</b>: April 6-7, 2020</s></li>
+ <li><s><b>Location</b>: <a href="https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/parst-paris-marriott-rive-gauche-hotel-and-conference-center/">Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France</a></s></li>
+ <li><s><b>DICT</b>: April 5th, 2020 2:00 - 6:00PM</s></li>
+ <li><s><b>Newcomers orientation</b>: <s>April 5th, 2020 6:00 - 6:30PM</s></li>
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+<div class="www_sectiontitle" id="Cancellation">Cancellation</div>
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+<p><b>The 2020 EuroLLVM Developers’ Meeting is cancelled because of COVID-19.</b></p>
+
+<p>We are sorry to announce that the 2020 EuroLLVM Developers’ Meeting is
+cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This was not a decision we took
+lightly. Here are the reasons we feel it is best to cancel EuroLLVM 2020:<ol>
+ <li>We feel this is the responsible and right thing to do to ensure the
+ health of all that attend and to do our part to stop the spread of
+ coronavirus. The World Health Organization set the risk of COVID-19 as very
+ high and stated that every effort to contain the virus and slow the spread
+ saves lives. As EuroLLVM attracts attendees from all over the world, we feel
+ that cancellation is an effort to contain and stop the virus.</li>
+ <li>We believe France will reach stage 3, which is the last stage of the
+ Covid-19 epidemic in the next few days. Once stage 3 is deployed, the
+ French government could implement new restrictions that impact those who
+ attempt to travel to EuroLLVM 2020 or impact large gatherings such as
+ EuroLLVM. In addition, several countries have imposed a mandatory quarantine
+ upon return for anyone who visits France.</li>
+ <li>Over 50% of our speakers have already informed us that they are unable to
+ attend due to a company travel ban or personal reasons. Our attendance is
+ projected to drop to below 150 attendees due to similar reasons.
+ Registration numbers are already far below expected numbers. Networking is
+ consistently the most important reason people attend a LLVM Developers’
+ Meetings and with lower attendance would not be as successful.</li>
+<ol>
+</p>
+
+<p>So what is next?
+<ol>
+ <li>We will be giving refunds to all that have registered. This is a manual
+ process and will take us a while to complete.</li>
+ <li>The deadline to cancel reservations at the Marriott Rive Gauche is March
+ 16th. Please make sure you cancel before this deadline to receive a refund
+ for your hotel booking. We will not cancel any hotel reservations that were
+ made by individuals.</li>
+ <li>EuroLLVM will not be rescheduled for 2020. We looked at several options
+ including delaying the conference by a couple months, but we were not
+ confident that we would feel safe hosting it in June 2020 and pushing it
+ back further would impact the US LLVM Developers’ Meeting that has already
+ been scheduled.</li>
+ <li>Students who received an LLVM Foundation travel grant will have their
+ non-refundable expenses refunded. They will be contacted about this
+ process.</li>
+ <li>Some conferences have resorted to online presentations or recordings. We
+ feel strongly that the largest benefit of our conferences is the face to
+ face networking and discussions the talks generate, and we do not feel that
+ just recording presentations is a good replacement for EuroLLVM.</li>
+</ol>
+</p>
+
+<p>On behalf of the LLVM Foundation, we are deeply saddened to have to make
+this difficult decision, a hard one but the only responsible one. Thank you to
+all involved, including the program chair and program committee members, all
+that sent in talk proposals, and the entire logistics team.</p>
+
+<p>We hope to see you all at the US LLVM Developers’ Meeting in late September.
+Specific dates will be announced in the coming month.</p>
+
<div class="www_sectiontitle" id="about">About</div>
<p>The LLVM Developers' Meeting is a bi-annual 2 day gathering of the entire
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<li><s>January 24, 2020 - Presentation Acceptance Notification</s></li>
<li><s>January 26, 2020 - Travel Grant Application Deadline</s></li>
<li><s>February 7, 2020 - Travel Grant Notification</s></li>
- <li>February 28, 2020 - Late Registration Starts</li>
- <li>March 27, 2020 - Registration Closes</li>
- <li>April 6-7, 2020 - LLVM Developers' Meeting</li>
+ <li><s>February 28, 2020 - Late Registration Starts</s></li>
+ <li><s>March 27, 2020 - Registration Closes</s> <b>cancelled</b></li>
+ <li><s>April 6-7, 2020 - LLVM Developers' Meeting</s> <b>cancelled</b></li>
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<div class="www_sectiontitle" id="program">Program</div>
