[Nix-dev] NixCon St. Petersburg 2016

[Jonn Mostovoy]

Dan,
I hate modern regime of Russia as much as the other guy.
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.

Besides, one can just go to the conference and then back to the hotel. That
was what I was doing on a recent bip conference in Lviv. I had some
prejudice regarding safety, thus I was doing more networking and listening
to interesting talks and less sightseeing.

kind regards,
jm.
On Jan 20, 2016 11:59 PM, "Daniel Peebles" <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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