[Nix-dev] NixCon St. Petersburg 2016

[Всеволод Стефкин]

Hi, everyone. I'm glad to hear about the conference. The city  is full of
beautiful attractions, conference participants will surely have great time
there.

ITMO university is located in city center, it must be the safest area and
the closest to tourist attractions. I've been in St. Petersburg before, and
it was a magnificent experience. I've never seen any signs of disrespect or
bullying towards LGBT-people there. I'm sure there is a bunch of native
St.Petersburg citizens here who can confirm.

2016-02-02 11:33 GMT+03:00 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:

> 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
> >
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