Hi, As some may notice some of our costs of DebConf18 comes from government fundings, and these fundings, including MEET TAIWAN, requires us to give them list of attendees. These funds add up to be at least USD 80,000. MEET TAIWAN also states that the data is used to prove if the conference meet the requirements they provide the fund.
We apologize that we didn't make attendees aware of these during the registration, and we are contacting you now to give you an opportunity to request that we withhold your information from the details we pass over. The information we will give out would be: * Initials of your first name and last name. * Nationality For example: "Y. W.", "Taiwan" If you would like to stop us sending your information, please contact privately to m...@debconf.org before 2018-08-17 23:59 (UTC). For further discussions about this issue, please follow the thread at debconf-team list: https://lists.debian.org/debconf-team/2018/08/msg00051.html FAQs: Q: Why this is an opt-out rather than opt-in? A: Opt-out would make us more difficult to gather data for fundings. Q: What is the MEET TAIWAN's requirements for fundings? A: We need at least 100 attendees, and in which we need at least 30 attendees not from Taiwan. Note that even if we meet such requirement, it will also affects fundings if we have much less people than we should report. Q: Why not giving them statistics and call it a day? A: MEET TAIWAN doesn't accept statistics data only. However, we will also attach statistics of nationality in the report. Sorry for the inconvenience, Yao Wei, on behalf of DebConf18 Team
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