On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:57:06PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >... > At least for Taiwan and Kosovo, I think that by holding DebConfs in > those places and engaging with their self-determined governments we > have de-facto accepted them as self-determined sovereign nations.
I think that you are 100% wrong on that. The handful people who are choosing Debconf locations cannot make political statements on behalf of the whole project. If a Debconf location is also considered a political statement as you imply then we have to choose Debconf locations by means of GR, starting with a GR right now whether Debian wants to consider Kosovo a self-determined sovereign nation by holding Debconf 2022 there. If Debian would ever consider Taiwan a self-determined sovereign nation, we would de facto exclude people in China from contributing to Debian. Is holding a Debconf in Israel a political statement by Debian that people in Palestine should not have to right to vote in any country? cu Adrian