On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:32:23 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > thanks to everyone making DebConf22 happen. I look forward to it a lot! +1 > However given... corona... Thanks for asking, and good to see that there are others thinking about this nasty topic :) Looking at <https://debconf22.debconf.org/about/covid19/> I think this page needs an update (it also says "as of March 2022" :)): - AFAIK there are no entry requirements in place any more(?) - I have no idea about the "General restrictions" quoted on the page, but I'd be surprised if this was still true in Kosovo (given what we are seeing in other countries). - This also means that the "Conference policy" (saying "we will apply the above rules") probably has a logical problem (as the result would be "There is no policy in practice." Or maybe the policy still stands even if the state has abandoned it?) I guess that means that the DebConf team has to write down their own COVID-19 policy, which can mean anything from "We follow the rules, i.e. do nothing, the pandemic is over, la-la-la" (paraphrasing current nation state policy in most of Europe) to "We require tests in advance and/or tests on arrival and we'll have food outdoors (thanks again Holger for asking) and CO₂ sensors and whatever etc." Given that infection rates in some countries are currently quite high again, and that we have ~300 participants from N countries [0], the probablity that someone unknowingly arrives with this unfriendly virus in their body is not insignificant. And also that they pass it on, especially if they are asymptomatic and there are no checks. I won't bore you with any half-baked ideas of a potential COVID-19 policy at DebConf but I hope that the global and local team can spend some thoughts on it. -- Thanks in advance! Cheers, gregor [0] https://debconf22.debconf.org/register/statistics/ lacks a SUM(country) or similar :) -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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