Re: Debconf20 will be in...

congratulations!

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:27 PM Lior Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Credit for the bid mostly belongs to Tzafrir who led this for the past 6
> months.
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:21 PM Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
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>> > 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
>>
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