Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-21 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Em 21/02/2020 11:15, Jeremy Stanley escreveu: Further, political exclusivity can be misleading. I work with a nonprofit which puts on some fairly large conferences every year. In recent years we've seen increasing pressure from our attendees to stop considering locations within the USA due to

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-21 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-02-21 09:11:56 +0100 (+0100), Giovanni Mascellani wrote: [...] > So I believe the best the DebConf organization can do is to try to > rotate the excluded categories as much as possible (depending also on > the available bids). This will never be fair, there always will be > people who are m

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-21 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi, Il 20/02/20 10:29, Zlatan Todoric ha scritto: > So, could we avoid in future places that are politically very sensitive? > No country is perfect but some are really not needed to go through when > we have more "calm" choices. I don't think this criterion is too important when evaluation a Deb

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 2/20/20 7:12 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Zlatan Todoric writes ("Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020"): So, could we avoid in future places that are politically very sensitive? We should consider all the implications of our venue choices,

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Zlatan Todoric writes ("Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020"): > So, could we avoid in future places that are politically very sensitive? We should consider all the implications of our venue choices, including political questions. > And wh

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 2/18/20 6:03 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez writes ("Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020"): On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:05:29AM -0500, Jerome Charaoui wrote: Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our desire to p

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Roberto C. Sánchez writes ("Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020"): > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:05:29AM -0500, Jerome Charaoui wrote: > > Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our desire to > > participate bec

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
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 20