On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:05:29AM -0500, Jerome Charaoui wrote: > > Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our desire to > participate became incompatible with our commitment toward the Boycott, > Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign launched by Palestinian civil > society in 2005. Hence, many active Montreal-based Debian developpers, > along with a number of other Debian developpers, have decided not to > travel to Israel in August 2020 for DebConf20. > Would it be possible to not constantly air our personal political opinions and grievances on Debian lists? Especially as part of something that goes to an -announce list.
If anything, this is harmful to Debian as a project. What would have been so difficult about something like "for those in the Debian community who for whatever reason cannot attend DebConf 2020 in Israel, there will be a mini-DebConf in Montreal" and so-on and so forth? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
