tl;dr: the 2020 incarnation of Debconf (Debian's annual developers conference) will be held in Haifa. This is the second-next Debconf, following one scheduled for July 2019 in Brazil.
Congratulations to the bid team :-) Daniel Daniel Lange wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:02 +00:00: > -----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 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
