On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:23 PM charles profitt
<fedora(a)cprofitt.com> wrote:
>
> When we were attempting to choose a location for 2017 the Toronto Linux
> User group was asked if they could assist with organizing an event in
> Toronto. This was due to some worries about travel to the US at the
> time. They did not have the cycles on such short notice, but did
> indicate that they would be willing to assist with 2019.
>
> I wanted to remind people about this discussion in case Toronto was a
> consideration for 2019.
Several events in Canada this year had problems with visa denials to Indian travelers. We
get a fair number of attendees from there so I didn’t offer it in the initial proposal.
See:
https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/220
I’m sure the council would like feedback.
A conference I was at last week in Vancouver had issues with Chinese,
Indian and two US residents too.
Peter