On 5/22/20 11:11 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:00:37AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> I believe it's important to get those numbers somehow. Now, the >> registration interface does not provide for anything like that - we >> were preparing a survey in the last couple of days to get a better >> look at said numbers, and we should be sending it out to everybody >> soon; it will be important in the decision process. > > I believe the poll being prepared misses a "we're in a global pandemic, please > cancel this event" option. > > I also believe organizing DebConf as an in person event in August 2020 > is endangering the participants *and* others, and if GRs were not > such a pain (and a big hammer) I were pondering to have one for not > organizing this in Debian's name. > > I'm sorry but this is how I see things currently.
+1 I can't help to think about a disaster scenario where 100s of DDs attend the event, get sick, some percents get in life danger, and another percent dies... Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)