[smc-discuss] Fwd: And DebConf21 goes to...

[manoj k]

Good News

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:23 PM Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>
wrote:

> Details of the bid https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/21/Bids/India
>
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> *From:* Sruthi Chandran <srud at disroot.org>
> *Sent:* 2020, ഫെബ്രുവരി 21 2:29:26 AM IST
> *To:* debconf-india-discuss at lists.fsci.in
> *Cc:* debian-dug-in at lists.debian.org
> *Subject:* Fwd: And DebConf21 goes to...
>
> So finally we have it... Congrats to all who were part of the bid and
> others who haven't been involved yet, join us!
>
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> *From:* Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at debian.org>
> *Sent:* February 21, 2020 12:19:05 AM GMT+05:30
> *To:* DebConf Announce <debconf-announce at lists.debian.org>
> *Cc:* DebConf Team <debconf-team at lists.debian.org>
> *Subject:* And DebConf21 goes to...
>
> Dear DebConf members,
> Dear Friend of the conference,
>
> This time, again, we faced quite a hard decision. During the second
> public bid review meeting we had to address RC-level issues with each
> of the three bids remaining in the race. See
> <20200131082958.GA22815 at debian.org> if you want to recap these issues.
>
> India managed to solve these quickly, Kosovo the same and - kudos
> Enkelena and the FLOSSK team - very impressively, too.
> Unfortunately the issues in Portugal are somewhat outside the control
> of the dedicated and hardworking bid team from Lisbon. The university
> has both indetermined construction work in the main talk room,
> rendering it defunct for an unknown duration, as well as a new
> management that did not commit in time. So we have to hope for a
> Mini-DC in Lisbon as soon as the university is able to host us.
>
> Both Kosovo and India are equally strong bids that the DCC felt
> comfortable awarding the Debian Developers' conference to.
> As we committed to prioritize Europe for the 2021 DebConf
> (cf. <427a4225-2e6b-8e0c-68ed-5d4a93c3ca89 at debian.org>), we
> unanimously leaned towards Kosovo for next year.
>
> So congrats, team Kosovo:
> DebConf21 will be in July / August 2021 at the University of Pristina
> (Universiteti i Prishtinës) in Kosovo!
> We are very much looking forward to coming and experiencing your
> renowned hospitality.
>
> But ... the Indian bid is so strong, we decided to go ahead and take
> the decision for the following year.
> Why? Because they need to move out of our normal "European summer"
> time frame due to the monsoon season.
> So we think it is a good idea to give attendees a lot of lead time to
> free the middle - end of September 2022 and prepare for long flights
> and - ideally - a bit longer holidays than usually. We will be happy
> if you also join us in 2022 for DebConf22 in Kochi, Kerala, India.
> Congrats team India!
>
> Please join us in congratulating the winning teams, help drying a tear
> or two in Portugal and let's all work together to make awesome
> DebConfs happen!
>
> All the best
>   - Gunnar Wolf
>     for the DebConf committee
>
>
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