jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️🌈RE: https://drupal.community/@volkswagenchick/116043025689431875
If safety's on your mind for DrupalCon Chicago, you should stay away.
If it's not on your mind, what's wrong with you?
Pedro Cambra@jpoesen how so?
@pcambra How so what exactly?
@pcambra Does it need explaining that *nobody* is safe traveling in or into the US?
If the organizers really cared about their community they would cancel or at the very very least dissuade people from traveling and attending.
@pcambra Remember how in 2010 the Eyjafjallajökull eruption disrupted DrupalCon, and folks all over the world set up in-person and virtual satellite events?
This grump remembers.
Avi SchwabPosted overnight: https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/news/whats-going-chicago
> Put very simply: If you feel unsafe attending an event in the United States, please do not attend. We regret the impact the current climate is having on our international community, LGBTQIA+ community, and others, and hope the US can be safe and welcoming for you in the future once again.
@jpoesen @froboy there are volunteers behind the organization of these events, even if I'm not supportive of many things happening around the DA, like pricing and accessibility of events and I think stuff can be organised differently (i.e. the licensed model), I see this communicate as a volunteer effort and I appreciate it a lot, I think is not "too little" to have someone speaking up on such a sensible topic, and having the CWG involved is a good thing.
@pcambra @jpoesen 100%. I think this project is going to be essential for the project making it another 10 or 20 years. https://www.drupal.org/project/ifwg. We need better financial transparency for the Association and we need to decouple the project's technical health from events, especially those held in any one specific country.