>>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome Charaoui <lavamind@debian.org> 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 civil society in Jerome> 2005. Hence, many active Montreal-based Debian developpers, Jerome> along with a number of other Debian developpers, have Jerome> decided not to travel to Israel in August 2020 for Jerome> DebConf20. 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. I was not expecting this sort of messaging to persist based on our previous conversations. I'm going to take a couple of days to calm down before making any decisions, but this is not appropriate messaging in an event that Debian supports. In particular, we as a project made a decision about where we were holding DebConf 20. It's fine for people not to participate. It would even be fine for people to create some mechanism that harnessed the energy of those who were not participating in a manner that enhanced or somehow complimented DebConf. As an example, people in the elephant in the room BOF at DC19 talked about working to enhance remote participation. The above messaging is not that. The above messaging comes across as a condemnation of what the project has decided to do, rather than something that supports our diversity and compliments DC20 while supporting those who choose not to attend. So, I'm going to take a couple of days and figure out what an appropriate response is.
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