Hi, I've tried to not express an opinion about venue decisions, because it is too controversial and I would rather focus on making all options better. However, I think too many people are being too silent about their preferences, and that's leading to appearance of overall support, and hidden factionalism in lots of private conversations. This email is designed to be public and hope to put a little bit of an end to that factionalism.
I'd rather attend a DebConf in a populated area. I'd be more likely to go if it was in a populated area (out of general principle), but of course since haven't been coming anyway that is only of limited use. By many accounts, our other options (costing either the same or less) have a lot of overall positives for normal attendees, and thus I am in favor of it. I'm also sure that no matter where we go, we'll make the best of everything. A lot of my previous statements shouldn't be taken as criticizing le camp. Producing a plan that is more flexible to whatever the actual income is does that. More troubling than money was rejection of any attempt to adjust the contract to make it more suitable for DebConf (less time). Now that hug has tried talking to le camp, it seems like it is pretty easy to make things better. I think the sense of "not enough locals" to help on le camp is due mostly to the factionalism. There hasn't been an actual decision made, all previous decisions on this topic were made under duress: "if you pick anything else there won't be DebConf" and similar things, which I think isn't correct. A similar thing goes for urgency of signing sooner as an argument against any rational comparison of venues. If there wasn't such a divisive atmosphere and we could have actually presented all options moths ago, we wouldn't be here. So, I think the rambly point of this email is to encourage people to voice their actual feelings, and not be put back by backlash that occurs when doing it. I'm going to keep doing what I have been doing and try to stay out as much as I can (aiding all options), and what we actually do depends on what others think... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - pyke: up 24 days, 5:39 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
