[Nix-dev] NixCon St. Petersburg 2016

[Daniel Peebles]

First off, thanks for offering to organize it. It's a big undertaking and
you're offering a huge gift to the community. Unfortunately, my big concern
(outside of my own enthusiasm for being a tourist in Russia) is around the
LGBT situation there. I'm sure there are many people in our community who
would not feel safe visiting Russia these days, and many of those might
also not feel comfortable speaking up on this list to even vote against the
location.

As an anecdote, @aphyr, a prominent (and generally awesome) expert on
distributed systems, recently wrote this piece on his feelings about
attending conferences in Russia:
https://gist.github.com/aphyr/64ef5320e87c4b09772a

Anyway, if the majority of the community is in favor for holding it there,
that's its prerogative, but I do think there are some very real downsides
to the location.

Thanks,
Dan


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/20/2016 10:11 PM, Arseniy Seroka wrote:
> >     I assume EU people will need visa but it should be easy to get them,
> >     right?
> >
> > Yes, that is the only problem, And we will help anyone who will go to
> conference
> > to get visa. We can send invitations and provide any information to our
> > embassy to make visa getting process easier.
>
> Hopefully the diplomatic situation between EU and Russia won't get any
> worse in the meantime.
>
> --Vladimir
>
>
>
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