-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear DebConf members, Dear friends of the conference,
We have had two strong final bids for hosting DebConf20: Haifa, Israel and Lisbon, Portugal. Within the DebConf committee and the wider DebConf team there have been extensive discussions about Israel as a hosting country and we acknowledge that there will be some members of Debian that prefer to not travel to Israel for political reasons. Still the Committee felt the upsides of the bid were significant and edged well over the Portuguese bid. But it was a close call. The five member DebConf committee had a two hour final decision meeting and a 3:2 vote in favor of Israel. So, congratulations, to the Israeli bid team: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to host the Debian Developer Conference 2020 in Haifa! To make life a bit easier for the many Debian members in Europe, and those restricted in travel, we would like to have DebConf21 in Europe again. The DebConf Committee therefore kindly asks the Portuguese team to carry over their bid to 2021. As the location and attendee volume are expected to be very challenging, we encourage long-term DebConf team members to join their team, for 2021, to ensure it succeeds. We hope the Brazilian team, once it has recovered from their DebConf, can and will offer support to their language-siblings in Portugal. We look forward to seeing you all in Curitiba, 21 July – 28 July 2019, for DebConf19. Registrations are open at https://debconf19.debconf.org/register/ . And, a year later, to seeing you in Haifa, Israel. Best regards, Daniel for the DebConf committee -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEENXULj7bvlf8WuOvAZk8SOKqPE4oFAlySN3QACgkQZk8SOKqP E4rgwxAAoOrj3lqAOyQfajpUrF7LMbE0zHB7znoOHCyl4h2NAbFygyWsJwGeUTyh Du0l4P2TGOmmGXA2LS17ll3lR+3W+/x8BDlXvuV7ymQseRowDPGYFcL1vVDHXIqj HJIZCbhh2qS8MipfuuhqZaX0dWxfVwsJ1fSojwuSBMO/SghWuN3SJXKwZDRp2WWr Vkaob6pAKkroW75/tltRrSLNogXpwGTocLbArCzTkOo6x9SErmN/95gjgYcx2A/o mTSrEi+iQqfYcBtdKA969gGZ3vYYp8A3TWruZgpMrJrrdFKuR94Kscdon1iFj6z9 RRSWVRUc1ZEeaSx3Nxlfd5gFl65tNYS1TYbE40r9GjLax8iGHt5y4x5dYDPgqcJb XJFH+2kqCdwj5adTmMQDq5frLbL9SA9Etv4vSOwkzCG7mBj/jKlkaqLHvrg43kgJ xrCPnskBSEEnlEr/Ue/nV0l5XQRIKwYeo64xjJwwi2av5ig/XeFezYDQelGQNOm8 tvy5qTFLpV6ltCvDZGqPsup/7SV8SArtYPNv+R/UzC/dCtYTb32IoTYb712XJdDk m/GeE1X2qmiOJYEaEZKoq3kawJ0hP1Dgu8C44i8CL3pP4vco/Yxjo87Jux6DzThX 62e/bgdwxCJ2H8vrC1R5Y4W7eVJzNTAnpcI+PbuxT33Z7tWEvpk= =DJ+j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
