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

2020-02-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Roberto, Regardless of whatever could be my political views (which I'm trying to set aside), there's issues with your reasoning below: On 2/20/20 2:20 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Another and clearly better and more inclusive approach would be to not > "penalize" people for the government

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

2020-02-20 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, Em 18/02/2020 15:31, Roberto C. Sánchez escreveu: On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: Right. But choosing Brazil for a DebConf venue at a time when it did not even have national-level anti-discrimination protection for LGBT people[*] was done in good taste

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

2020-02-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:49:59AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > We could have something like a "bid acceptability check", at the start of > the process, to detect, discuss and formally decide on Elephants early > on. > One way to achieve that could be to poll regular DebConf attendees about >

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

2020-02-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:26:06PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > absolutly. I still dont think it was right to have this decission in > > private, > > but at least announcing it earlier would have been better. > > > > (I do think having the decission in private was neccessary because else the >

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

2020-02-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/02/20 at 23:17 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hello Lucas, > > Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:45:43AM +0100]: > > > Most probably, the results will be announced by mail (and not > > > communicated during a meeting), because the bid review process has led > > > us to need to

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

2020-02-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:02:06PM +]: > (...) > > Agreed to those (as I also said at the time). I think it was obvious to > > us early on in the DC20 decision process that we'd want to do this > > privately. We should have announced that. > > absolutly. I still dont think it

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

2020-02-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello Lucas, Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:45:43AM +0100]: > > Most probably, the results will be announced by mail (and not > > communicated during a meeting), because the bid review process has led > > us to need to decide in this way. I cannot speak for the previously > >

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

2020-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 08:10:42PM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Jonathan (2020.02.18_16:29:34_+) > > I haven't publicly said this before, but I believe it was a big mistake: > > * Not having a bid committee for that vote > I don't know how necessary a bid committee has been, since the

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

2020-02-19 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Jonathan (2020.02.18_16:29:34_+) > I haven't publicly said this before, but I believe it was a big mistake: > > * Not having a bid committee for that vote I don't know how necessary a bid committee has been, since the change from DebConf chairs to the DebConf Committee. This is a big

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

2020-02-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:51:13 +0100, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > Is the decision making process clearly documented somewhere? I don't think so … > Is the decision making body documented somewhere, i.e. ewhere can I find > out who is part of the committee? And how can people join this body? The

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

2020-02-19 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, On 19/02/2020 02:54, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Most probably, the results will be announced by mail (and not communicated during a meeting), because the bid review process has led us to need to decide in this way. I cannot speak for the previously appointed DebConf Committee¹, but for the

debconf decision process (was Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020)

2020-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > [...] but I think the current DebConf committee > should strongly consider setting up a bid committee again (even if it > largely or mostly overlaps with the DCC, that might just be natural) and > keep the bid decision public as it

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

2020-02-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 18/02/20 at 23:54 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Most probably, the results will be announced by mail (and not > communicated during a meeting), because the bid review process has led > us to need to decide in this way. I cannot speak for the previously > appointed DebConf Committee¹, but for

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

2020-02-19 Thread Ulrike Uhlig
Hi all, On 19.02.20 06:54, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > gregor herrmann dijo [Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 09:00:33PM +0100]: >>> That's good, the desire to have it public does not equate to a desire or >>> need for me to be there. IMO it's just important that this doesn't >>> happen behind closed doors again

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

2020-02-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
gregor herrmann dijo [Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 09:00:33PM +0100]: > > That's good, the desire to have it public does not equate to a desire or > > need for me to be there. IMO it's just important that this doesn't > > happen behind closed doors again like last time. > > AFAICS the process for DC20

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

2020-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Lange writes: > "active apartheid regime" is politically loaded lingo and shows where you > stand. This is another way of saying that it clearly communicates a political point of view. Perhaps that was the goal. If one holds the position that this is an inherently political decision

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

2020-02-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:44:09 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2020/02/18 21:15, Daniel Lange wrote: > >> […] I think the current DebConf committee > >> should strongly consider […] > >> keep the bid decision public as it was in prior DebConfs. > > We held public review meetings for the DC21

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

2020-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Daniel On 2020/02/18 21:15, Daniel Lange wrote: >> I haven't publicly said this before, but I believe it was a big mistake: >> >>   * Not having a bid committee for that vote >>   * Making it a private vote >>   * Not announcing the the DCC would be the bid committee >>     nor that it would

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

2020-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/02/18 20:31, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Right. But choosing Brazil for a DebConf venue at a time when it did > not even have national-level anti-discrimination protection for LGBT > people[*] was done in good taste and was a victory for diversity? Sure. No one said or implied anything

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

2020-02-18 Thread Daniel Lange
Hi Jonathan I haven't publicly said this before, but I believe it was a big mistake: * Not having a bid committee for that vote * Making it a private vote * Not announcing the the DCC would be the bid committee nor that it would be a private vote You have been part of the DCC at

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

2020-02-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > On a purely personal note, I find it in rather poor taste to talk about > diversity in the context of having DC in a country with an active > apartheid regime. > Right. But choosing Brazil for a DebConf venue at a time when it

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

2020-02-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey OdyX On 2020/02/18 10:43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> I'm quite frustrated, disappointed and angry reading the above. >> >> I had expressed a fairly strong discomfort with the anti-DC20 messaging >> I got from the original contact about Montreal. > > To offer some contrast, although I can

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

2020-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >Le lundi, 17 février 2020, 19.19:02 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : >> > "Jerome" == Jerome Charaoui writes: >> Jerome> Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our >> Jerome> desire to participate became

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

2020-02-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 17 février 2020, 19.19:02 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : > > "Jerome" == Jerome Charaoui writes: > Jerome> Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our > Jerome> desire to participate became incompatible with our > Jerome> commitment toward the Boycott,

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

2020-02-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jerome" == Jerome Charaoui writes: Jerome> Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our Jerome> desire to participate became incompatible with our Jerome> commitment toward the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Jerome> (BDS) campaign launched by Palestinian