<div dir="ltr">Credit for the bid mostly belongs to Tzafrir who led this for the past 6 months.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:21 PM Daniel Shahaf <<a href="mailto:d.s@daniel.shahaf.name">d.s@daniel.shahaf.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">tl;dr: the 2020 incarnation of Debconf (Debian's annual developers<br>
conference) will be held in Haifa. This is the second-next Debconf,<br>
following one scheduled for July 2019 in Brazil.<br>
<br>
Congratulations to the bid team :-)<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<br>
Daniel Lange wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:02 +00:00:<br>
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> Dear DebConf members,<br>
> Dear friends of the conference,<br>
> <br>
> We have had two strong final bids for hosting DebConf20:<br>
> Haifa, Israel and Lisbon, Portugal.<br>
> <br>
> Within the DebConf committee and the wider DebConf team there have<br>
> been extensive discussions about Israel as a hosting country and we<br>
> acknowledge that there will be some members of Debian that prefer to<br>
> not travel to Israel for political reasons.<br>
> <br>
> Still the Committee felt the upsides of the bid were significant and<br>
> edged well over the Portuguese bid. But it was a close call. The five<br>
> member DebConf committee had a two hour final decision meeting and a<br>
> 3:2 vote in favor of Israel.<br>
> <br>
> So, congratulations, to the Israeli bid team:<br>
> Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to host the Debian<br>
> Developer Conference 2020 in Haifa!<br>
> <br>
> To make life a bit easier for the many Debian members in Europe, and<br>
> those restricted in travel, we would like to have DebConf21 in Europe<br>
> again. The DebConf Committee therefore kindly asks the Portuguese team<br>
> to carry over their bid to 2021. As the location and attendee volume<br>
> are expected to be very challenging, we encourage long-term DebConf<br>
> team members to join their team, for 2021, to ensure it succeeds. We<br>
> hope the Brazilian team, once it has recovered from their DebConf, can<br>
> and will offer support to their language-siblings in Portugal.<br>
> <br>
> We look forward to seeing you all in Curitiba, 21 July – 28 July 2019,<br>
> for DebConf19.<br>
> Registrations are open at <a href="https://debconf19.debconf.org/register/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://debconf19.debconf.org/register/</a> .<br>
> <br>
> And, a year later, to seeing you in Haifa, Israel.<br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Daniel<br>
> for the DebConf committee<br>
<br>
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