Hey folks, I had been waiting for DebConf19's end to send this email. For lack of a better word, I'm "retiring" from all my DebConf involvement. I can't picture myself participating in a conference taking place in Israel, much less helping organise one there. Against the continued disregard for the rights of the Palestinian people, I feel the only power I have as an individual living in North America is to heed the call of the BDS movement [1]. I hadn't been doing a lot of orga stuff lately anyway and I did little work on the DebConf Sponsors team this year. I'm mainly stepping down from my coordination tasks in the DebConf Videoteam. Someone else will have to organise meetings and events, craft agendas and keep track of the team's deadlines from now on :) As a result, I've quit a bunch of DebConf mailing lists, RT tracker queues, Salsa groups and IRC channels. I've also asked DSA to remove me from *@debconf.org* aliases. I'll still lurk in the DebConf Videoteam IRC channel and on the mailing list, but it saddens me to say I will not be doing any concrete work for the videoteam this year, or at least nothing related to DC20. I want to thank all the people that have helped organise DebConfs in the past few years, and in particular the incredible folks part of the videoteam. Thanks for the amazing ride this has been. I've learned and grew a lot as a person since Heidelberg and DC15. More importantly, I've had a lot of fun. I sincerely hope one day we'll all get to see peace in Palestine and Israel. [1]: https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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