[Nix-dev] NixCon St. Petersburg 2016

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

I don't know if I will be able to take part, but I recommend you the
chance of going to Russia, specially in this case where you have Russian
hosts. They are the best to help you enjoy the country, without you to
having to fear anything. As for my experience, the Russian people have
perfect control about any safety issues that foreigners may fear about,
better than many EU-citizens may know about their own cities. I personally
feel less safe in militarized and paranoid countries like France or
Germany.

Moreover, Peter is a very touristic city, and locals are very good at
distinguishing tourists (welcomed people) over any migrant that they may
throw crazy racist agressivenes to. :)

As for the topic raised these days, I have plenty of Russian friends that
have very diverse sexual preferences, and they are safe and well
organized. There are enough brave people who dare to brand those flags in
mass manifestations in the cities in such a police-state, and of course,
that involves gratuituous repression by the police.

As for assholes, there are everywhere, and they are the most broadcasted
on TV.

For Dutch (and Russian, which will understand most of them), I take this
chance of recommending these documentaries:

http://www.npo.nl/van-moskou-tot-moermansk/POMS_S_VPRO_113161

http://www.npo.nl/van-moskou-tot-magadan/POMS_S_VPRO_084195

Regards,
Lluís.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:38:20AM +0000, Rob Vermaas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I would like to hear what NixOS foundation board have to say to host
> > a conference in Sankt Petersburg. Also is there anybody else willing to
> > organise conference? Then if we have more proposals who decides where the
> > conference is held? I guess still being a very small community it would not be
> > very smart to have multiple conferences (just yet). Do we need some more formal
> > procedure for selecting main conference?
> 
> I don't think the NixOS Foundation needs to have a bigger say in this
> decision, than any other member of the Nix community. So feel free to
> organize events in an open discussion with the Nix community.
> 
> The NixOS Foundation, *currently*, does not have as goal to govern any
> community process within the Nix community. This might change in the
> future, if we get broader involvement of the community in the
> Foundation, and if the community decides we want to organise this as
> part of the NixOS Foundation. For now the NixOS Foundation has a
> limited scope, as described on http://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html,
> to support the infrastructure and projects of the Nix community.
> 
> To give a *personal* opinion, I would prefer seeing a NixCon in the
> USA, if that is feasible and there is enough interest. But I also
> wouldn't mind it if it would be organized in St Petersburg.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Rob Vermaas
> 
> [email] rob.vermaas at gmail.com
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