Hi Everyone, I want to echo Daniel Peebles' concerns, in addition to the gratitude for offering to host the conference.
One option would be to speak to a local LGBTQ group to find out what resources, if any, there exist to help ensure a safe experience for conference speakers and attendees. Best, Aaron Levin On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonn Mostovoy writes: > > > I just want to point out that anti-LGBT laws, censorship, oppression of > > own citizens, geopolitical expansion has nothing to do with daily > > activities of normal people in big Russian cities. St. Petersburg, the > > cultural capital of Russia, is safer than a lot of European cities. Of > > course, there are less safe districts, but such districts exist in > > London, Paris, New Jersey, you know. > > I have never been to St. Petersburg, but I was curious about the situation > and I simply asked Google. My impression was that it doesn't seem so hard > to > find a place to go if you want to enjoy gay nightlife: > > - http://www.gay-tour.ru/ > - > http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298507-d2620914-Reviews-Central_Station-St_Petersburg_Northwestern_District.html > - > http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/st-petersburgs-gay-nightlife-is-alive-and-kicking/455801.html > > Obviously, the discriminatory laws and policies in effect in Russia suck > and > nobody in their right mind would want to condone those policies. However, > let's not lose perspective. If we want to have NixOS conferences only in > places with no discriminatory policies whatsoever, then we'll have a hard > time finding a venue, really, because no such country exists. > > Personally, I'd be thrilled to visit St. Petersburg. I'd love to see the > White Nights, the historic city center, and possibly some of the theaters > and museums. I hope enough people show an interest so that Arseniy and Max > can organize a great conference for us! > > I think it's awesome that they took the initiative, and I hope others do > the > same thing and organize Nix conferences wherever they happen to live, too, > so we -- the Nix community -- can use that hobby of ours as a convenient > excuse to travel and meet people from all over the world. :-) > > Best regards, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Aaron Levin / Weird Canada www.aaronlevin.ca / www.weirdcanada.com
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