congratulations! On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:27 PM Lior Kaplan <kaplanl...@gmail.com> 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 <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > 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: >> > -----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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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