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2018-08-10 23:06 GMT+08:00 Yao Wei <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > As some may notice some of our costs of DebConf18 comes from government > fundings, and these fundings, including MEET TAIWAN, requires us to give > them list of attendees. These funds add up to be at least USD 80,000. > MEET TAIWAN also states that the data is used to prove if the conference > meet the requirements they provide the fund. > > We apologize that we didn't make attendees aware of these during the > registration, and we are contacting you now to give you an opportunity > to request that we withhold your information from the details we pass > over. > > The information we will give out would be: > * Initials of your first name and last name. > * Nationality > > For example: > "Y. W.", "Taiwan" > > If you would like to stop us sending your information, please contact > privately to [email protected] before 2018-08-17 23:59 (UTC). > > For further discussions about this issue, please follow the thread at > debconf-team list: > https://lists.debian.org/debconf-team/2018/08/msg00051.html > > FAQs: > > Q: Why this is an opt-out rather than opt-in? > A: Opt-out would make us more difficult to gather data for fundings. > > Q: What is the MEET TAIWAN's requirements for fundings? > A: We need at least 100 attendees, and in which we need at least 30 > attendees not from Taiwan. Note that even if we meet such requirement, > it will also affects fundings if we have much less people than we should > report. > > Q: Why not giving them statistics and call it a day? > A: MEET TAIWAN doesn't accept statistics data only. However, we will > also attach statistics of nationality in the report. > > Sorry for the inconvenience, > Yao Wei, on behalf of DebConf18 Team >
