>>>>> "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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