This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 ---------- ### Whereas 1. the World Health organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic [1] as of March 11th and has not yet lifted this. 2. the Debian Project has planned its annual Developer's conference DebConf20 [2] to take place in Hafia, Israel during August 23rd to 29th. 3. the DebConf organizers have opened the registration for this year's conference[3]. ### The Debian Project resolves 1. that organizing DebConf as an in-person event in August 2020 is endangering it's participants **and** others. 2. it persuades the conference organizers to cancel this years conference as on-site in-person conference. 3. it encourages all conference organizers to postpone any on-site developer gatherings organized in the name of the Debian Project until the WHO has declared this global pandemic as being over. 4. that it has the technical expertise to hold such an event on-line. ### Rational 1. During Debian's Developers Conference participants from all over the world will gather together from different health systems and different cultures. 2. Debian Developers of all ages and with different health conditions will travel to this conference. 3. Debian as a project wants to ensure the wellbeing of all of its Developers and of other participants of such an event, as well as all later contact persons of all participants. 4. The Debian project should be an archetype for technical conferences of this kind, both technically and socially. [1] https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020 [2] https://debconf20.debconf.org/ [3] https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2020/05/msg00001.html -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org> Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B
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