Giovanni Mascellani dijo [Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:51:09PM +0200]: > (...) (Not specifically answering to Gio, but to the thread as a whole) > (...) But meetings should remain as small as possible, and as > geographically confined as possible. Organizing conferences with > hundreds of people coming from all over the world is, in my opinion, > irresponsible: There's also the issue of getting there --- Most people travelling to Israel will have to switch airplanes at an intermediate airport. Big airports simply is something that scares me currently. People comng from all different origins into a single space. In any case, a DebConf20 in August would surely not gather the usual hundreds of people, but only some dozens. > I am sorry for the organizing team, who for sure has poured a lot of > energy and dedication into DebConf20. They deserve all our gratitude and > they have all mine. I know it is disappointing to see their efforts > wasted, but in the current situation I don't think it is responsible to > physically meet from all over the world. It's not just about the risk > each individual attendee would accept to take: it's the risk our whole > communities take (particularly the vulnerable ones, from the health > viewpoint) when individuals allow the virus to spread. > > I hope that Debian does not organize any non-local physical meeting this > year, although I am sad this has to happen. I completely concur with what you and others have said. I don't think it's in any way responsible to hold a presential conference in the planned dates. I am happy to read in this thread that the local team does not cling to the idea of hosting the conference in August; lets see how life unfolds for the next ... months? Note that we have *not* come to an official statement yet, but I'm sure this thread has given a valuable insight on the feling of the community.
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