Debconf20 will be in...

[Lior Kaplan]

Credit for the bid mostly belongs to Tzafrir who led this for the past 6
months.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:21 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s at daniel.shahaf.name>
wrote:

> tl;dr: the 2020 incarnation of Debconf (Debian's annual developers
> conference) will be held in Haifa.  This is the second-next Debconf,
> following one scheduled for July 2019 in Brazil.
>
> Congratulations to the bid team :-)
>
> Daniel
>
>
> Daniel Lange wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:02 +00:00:
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> > Dear DebConf members,
> > Dear friends of the conference,
> >
> > We have had two strong final bids for hosting DebConf20:
> > Haifa, Israel and Lisbon, Portugal.
> >
> > Within the DebConf committee and the wider DebConf team there have
> > been extensive discussions about Israel as a hosting country and we
> > acknowledge that there will be some members of Debian that prefer to
> > not travel to Israel for political reasons.
> >
> > Still the Committee felt the upsides of the bid were significant and
> > edged well over the Portuguese bid. But it was a close call. The five
> > member DebConf committee had a two hour final decision meeting and a
> > 3:2 vote in favor of Israel.
> >
> > So, congratulations, to the Israeli bid team:
> > Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to host the Debian
> > Developer Conference 2020 in Haifa!
> >
> > To make life a bit easier for the many Debian members in Europe, and
> > those restricted in travel, we would like to have DebConf21 in Europe
> > again. The DebConf Committee therefore kindly asks the Portuguese team
> > to carry over their bid to 2021. As the location and attendee volume
> > are expected to be very challenging, we encourage long-term DebConf
> > team members to join their team, for 2021, to ensure it succeeds. We
> > hope the Brazilian team, once it has recovered from their DebConf, can
> > and will offer support to their language-siblings in Portugal.
> >
> > We look forward to seeing you all in Curitiba, 21 July – 28 July 2019,
> > for DebConf19.
> > Registrations are open at https://debconf19.debconf.org/register/ .
> >
> > And, a year later, to seeing you in Haifa, Israel.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel
> > for the DebConf committee
>
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