Re: GHM 2022 in October at İzmir, Turkey

[John Darrington]

Thumbs up to Luca and Ege,

Obviously the biggest question mark with any kind of travel at the moment is
COVID.  Who knows whether one will be allowed to enter Turkey in October, and
whether one will be allowed to return home afterwards.

So it will, I think, be necessary to very closely keep an eye on the rules,
and to have some backup plans if plan A proves to be unworkable.

J'

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:11:30PM +0100, Luca Saiu wrote:
     Hello.
     
     My fiancée Ege and I would like to organise the next GNU Hackers'
     Meeting in the city of İzmir, on the Aegean coast of Turkey.
     
     Turkey accepts visitors from a wide range of countries without requiring
     visas while still being easy to reach from Europe: by having the meeting
     there we intend to welcome some new participants, in addition to the
     regulars.
     
     Ege comes from that region and will arrange the venue; I will deal
     with what for some reason we have always called the «remote» part of the
     work, which is to say handle talk proposals and abstracts.
     
     The meeting will take place in October, which is the best choice for
     that region: the weather will be milder, and the prices lower.  The main
     presentation will still happen over a weekend, as in most of the
     previous editions.  Concerning the venue we are in contact with a hotel
     where the participants would also have the option to sleep -- cheaper
     alternatives being also available in the vicinity.
     
     We will send updates later as we learn more details.  We think that
     everything will be finalised by the Summer; in the mean time we would
     like to sample your interest.  Please understand that this is still
     tentative, and we cannot give guarantees; still, if you are interested,
     you may want to keep your October weekends free.
     
     
     About talk proposals, we accept technical presentations about GNU and
     other free software projects.  A web page will be prepared later; for
     the time being if you have an idea for a talk you can write to me in
     private.
     
     -- 
     Luca Saiu
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