Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 11:40:19AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Andreas Tille dijo [Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 04:22:38PM +0100]: > > Am Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 08:56:06AM -0300 schrieb Antonio Terceiro: > > > I understand that not everyone has the availability for longer trips for > > > several reasons, there are carbon footprint concerns, etc. But DebConfs > > > outside of central Europe already have a smaller attendance, it would be > > > nice if we could avoid giving people one more reason not to go. > > > MiniDebConf can be held at any other time of the year. > > Please put a big “+1” from my part to Terceiro's words here. Thanks for > articulating them. > > > Besides this we have > > MiniDebConf in Mai in Hamburg > > Rumors about MiniDebConf in August in WinterThur > > Considerations about MiniDebConf in Cambridge > > Considerations about MiniDebConf in Toulouse > > if I'm informed correctly. > > > > So besides this competition in time with main DebConf we have > > competition between several European DebConfs which might make another > > MiniDebConf in Europe questionable. > > I am sure there can be a covenient time for a MiniDebConf in Portugal that > _does not_ clash with either our global conference (as we _want_ Europeans > to attend DebConf whether it is in South America, Asia, Africa or wherever > else, not to see the alternative offering as an opportunity to anyway meet > most of their homocontinental Debian friends) or other regional Debian > gatherings. Yes, it would be unfortunate if a Lisbon MiniDebConf were to > coincide with those that I'm quoting or others in the same regional scope; > I would not oppose a Lisbon MiniDebConf to be concurrent with another one > ⪭ 5000Km away. > > But for the one opportunity we have to gather Debian people from all over > the world... Please, do not make it be fragmented.
Our intention is not to compete with the Main DebConf but to
complement it. To have rooms with video display to show the main
talks in Argentina in real time and ways for the people in Lisbon to
participate on the talk.
Much of the people that is not willing to go to Argentina will not go
anyway to Portugal.
We do not have a big team to organise a big MiniDebConf to compete
with Argentina in size. We need much more volunteers for the local
team even to organise this MiniDebConf.
In my opinion in the end is better for all Debian if we can gather all
the people in place during DebConf being in Argentina, Portugal or
other remote places from Argentina. We are a global organisation, why
we can not have a global event spread around the world?
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Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz
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