On Friday, May 22, 2020 12:43:56 PM EDT Sam Hartman wrote: > [I hope someone on the DebConf team side is willing to summarize the > results of this discussion to debian-vote] > > >>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> writes: > Stefano> Hi Sam (2020.05.22_14:51:42_+0000) > > >> The interesting thing is what the WHO says about travel and > >> minimizing international travel. > > Stefano> I was surprised that it doesn't try to dissuade the events > Stefano> entirely. What it does say is: 1. Work with your local > Stefano> authorities. 2. Have a plan for dealing with an outbreak > Stefano> at your event. > > In the mail opening registration, there wasn't any discussion of having > talked to Israel/the local authorities about the conference. > There was only an assertion that it looked like things might be okay. > > 1) To the extent that we have contacted the local authorities it seems > like it would be good to write up the advice we have gotten. > > 2) It sounds like the advice from the WHO is to work with local > authorities. > It seems like we really ought to follow that advice and reach out. > I'd go so far as to say that holding a conference without good contacts > to local health authorities and good lines of communication/support > would be irresponsible. > Now, for all I know that's in progress or has already happened. > > > 3) Once we do get advice (or now if we already have that advice) I think > that would be valuable input to the debian-vote discussion. Or we might even want to step back and let the delegated team for this effort do their job. Personally, I'll vote against any such GR that is proposed before the team makes an actual decision. I think the idea of a GR to override a decision that a delegate hasn't made yet is horrible as a general precedent for how Debian works. Scott K
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