On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, at 17:26, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 02:23:35PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Dear Julien, >> >> if I understood you correctly you believe covid is over and not worse >> than the flu, or some such (*), thus I'm lost at words at you pushing >> this now. > > I think there might be a misunderstanding here. Julien has been > entrusted by the DebConf team to help ur *organize* a better handling of > COVID issues in DebConf. He's not entitled to push his own views, but to > discuss with the community -- whoever volunteers to participate in this > dicussion -- and propose a better strategy than we currently have. > Whatever result is achieved will need to be approved by the DebConf > team, and failing that, by the DebConf committee. I have to say that I shared Holger's initial sentiment, but I'm also thankful that someone is actually putting energy in moving things forward, even though I have strongly disagreed with their actions in the past. As far as I can see, Julien is acting in good faith here. I have not seen anyone else put energy into changing/improving the public health stance within DebConf orga (I know I certainly don't have more energy to be doing so than I had when we first had discussions around this in local team a year ago). I disagree that the discussion should wait, because we generally want registration, etc. to be moving as fast as possible when the conference dates are known, and an updated public health policy would be an integral part of that process. Cheers, -- Nicolas Dandrimont
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