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

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 3:47 am, Anivar Aravind 
<anivar.aravind at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow . Great news!!
> Congrats all who made it possible

We need to find an organization that can handle funds for the event and 
SMC is natuarally the first option as we have handled funds for Debian 
events before.

We need to meet this criteria 
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/TrustedOrganizationCriteria

> 
> 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
>> 
>> 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!
>> 
>> 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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