<story><title>Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised SXSW hasn&amp;#x27;t cancelled yet. That&amp;#x27;s a huge gathering starting in less than 2 weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orliesaurus</author><text>It would crush the Austin economy, there are businesses in the downtown which rent out their &amp;quot;space&amp;quot; for the 2&amp;#x2F;3 weeks of SXSW and make more money in this period of time, than they would otherwise do all year long!&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The annual festival increased its economic impact to the City of Austin to $355.9 million in 2019, according to an analysis by Greyhill Advisors and South by Southwest.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kxan.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;coronavirus&amp;#x2F;austin-business-owners-call-for-cancellation-of-sxsw-citing-coronavirus-concerns&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kxan.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;coronavirus&amp;#x2F;austin-business-owners...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised SXSW hasn&amp;#x27;t cancelled yet. That&amp;#x27;s a huge gathering starting in less than 2 weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dman</author><text>Would be reckless to still go ahead with it.</text></comment>