Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>Le lundi, 17 février 2020, 19.19:02 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit :
>> >>>>> "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.
>
>To offer some contrast, although I can agree such introduction _could_ have
>been left out of the announcement email, I find the phrasing to be honest,
>transparent, and fair: it is not against Debian, not against DebConf, not
>against the DebConf Committee. It is merely explaining in full sight their
>reasons to a) not attend DebConf; b) organize that event at that time.
It's also adding a lot of unnecessary negativity, in my opinion. It's
easy enough to simply announce an event *without* this. It's another
Debian event, we have lots of them every year. There's no need for
further complaint.
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