X.Org Weighed Moving Their Annual XDC Conference Out Of The US

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org Weighed Moving Their Annual XDC Conference Out Of The US

XDC 2017, the annual X.Org Developers' Conference, was announced last year for happening in Mountain View, California and hosted by Google but given the current US political climate, the X.Org Foundation was questioning whether to move the event outside of the United States...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XDC2017-Still-Plan-For-US

[peppercats]

I suggest Mexico. Might want to buy kidnapping insurance before they go.


And yes, kidnapping insurance is a real thing.

[L_A_G]

I'd hate to sound like I'm being dismissive of Mexico, but why Mexico? If you're going to keep the event on the north american continent wouldn't Canada be the logical choice? It's essentially the same country except less nutty and doesn't have a comic book villain running the country.

/joke

[uid313]

Moving the conference due to the "political climate" and U.S. travel restrictions? AHAHAHAHAHA!
What joke is this?

The travel restriction does not affect any attendee to the X.Org Developer Conference.
Whoever uttered this bullshit needs to keep their agenda to themselves and not abuse X.Org by pushing their agendas into stuff where they don't belong.
The U.S travel restriction is a non-issue since it does not affect the XDC in any way whatsoever.

[bibaheu]

I suggest Mexico. Might want to buy kidnapping insurance before they go.


And yes, kidnapping insurance is a real thing.

I had one of those when I was in exchange en Mexico, the EU paid for it as part of the Erasmus scholarship. It was funny, they would pay $300,000 to the kidnappers, and if an agreement couldn't be made, the insurance company would hire a private security company to bust me out.

Nothing happened to me, Mexico is fine if you don't mess around in dangerous areas, but it was a bit tempting to fake a kidnapping and make some cash lol.

[FireBurn]

A Welsh Muslim teacher was stopped from entering the US recently. Born and raised in the UK and traveling with a school trip. Stopped and searched because of the colour of his skin and prevented from entering the US because of his religion. This was after the travel ban was revoked too - so don't assume there will be no disruption

[bug77]

Cool, X now does politics. Just what we needed.

[duby229]

Well, Let's just say that Trump is ruining himself. He'll bring himself down in the due course of time. He put himself into this position that money can't fix. In the mean time it probably -is- a better idea to avoid America until then. Unfortunately the voter turn out sucked ass and now Americans have to deal with it and non-Americans should try to do what they need to do while sidestepping us.

I just think the US presidency has way too much power right now and only foreign powers have the ability to do anything real about it. Unenforceable law is exactly the same as no law at all so lets try to make this bullshit as unenforceable as freakin possible.

[robclark]

Moving the conference due to the "political climate" and U.S. travel restrictions? AHAHAHAHAHA!
What joke is this?

at the risk of feeding trolls:

"political climate" was Michael's words, not ours. Concern about travel restrictions (which also includes potential for difficulty getting visas, and even whether people visiting from other countries even want to travel to the host country) is actually a valid concern when you are organizing an international conference, regardless of politics. I know of at least one case in the past where someone who wanted to attend XDC was unable to get a visa, and therefore unable to attend. Hopefully it won't cause a problem for any attendee, but it is just one of those boring things you have to worry about if you want a successful conference.

[mastermind]

Why don't they move it to one of those 7 tolerant countries? Oh, I guess, there will be some minor inconveniences, like women would have to spare some expense on burkas and mandatory male escorts if they don't have a husband to bring with, and any gay people better sit this one out of they value their lives at all.