USA or Mexico alternative to OsmoDevCon?

Hello fellow telecom hackers, Seeing that OsmoDevCon 2022 is being discussed, I would like to propose a more inclusive alternative, to be held in either USA or Mexico. There are two severe lack-of-inclusion problems with OsmoDevCon: 1) Since its very beginning, ODC has been exclusionary, limited only to Osmocom developers specifically, excluding those developers and tinkerers who work on non-Osmocom projects in the "indie" telecom space, "indie" being defined as independent of major commercial vendors and industry. I hold the opinion that all monocultures are bad in principle, and an Osmocom monoculture is no better than, say, a Microsoft monoculture. Osmocom is currently in the dominant position, outweighing all others by some orders of magnitude, but might does not make right, and we need more diversity. We need more players in this niche space than just Osmocom! 2) The recent decision to limit OsmoDevCon only to those who have agreed to put a certain class of pharmaceutical into their bodies, *on top* of the Osmocom-only restriction of the previous paragraph, makes the proposed conference even more exclusionary and therefore of no service to the wider telecom hacker community. Of course it is not my place as a Russian-American to try to tell EU countries whom to allow or not allow within their borders, nor is it my place to tell private individuals like our Fearless Leader Harald whom to allow or not allow in their private spaces. But what I *can* do instead is to step forward and offer to organize and host a more inclusive alternative, and that is what I am doing with this post. Specifically I am offering to organize and host a physical in-person gathering of telecom (all telecom, not just wireless) hackers, enthusiasts and tinkerers, very similar in spirit to OsmoDevCon, but more inclusive: 1) Welcoming everyone who has devoted a major portion of his or her life to *any* project in the indie telecom space, regardless of which domain that project is hosted under, and regardless of whether that project is FOSS or merely PSS. (PSS = Published Source Software, a superset of FOSS.) 2) Welcoming everyone regardless of personal medical choices - what you do with your body is your business, not mine - you don't tell me what I should or shouldn't put in my body, and I won't tell you what you should or shouldn't put into yours. Also no forced testing: if you wish to get yourself tested for this or that before attending, it is your sovereign choice to do so, but no one will *ever* be turned away from an event which I organize and host, neither for refusing to test nor for any other reason. If there is anyone interested in such an inclusive in-person gathering of telecom hackers, I am offering to host one in my part of the world. Where is it geographically? I live in USA, near San Diego, and right next to the border between USA and Mexico. Depending on who is interested in joining and where they will come from, I can host our InclusiveDevCon on either side of the border, i.e., either in USA or in Mexico. It is my understanding that gaining entry into Mexico is much easier than gaining entry into USA, hence for that reason I suggest that we hold our get-together on the Mexican side of the border. If we do choose Mexico as our host country, the specific location will need to be in the northern part of that country, specifically in the Mexican state of Baja California; the candidate cities would be Tijuana or Ensenada, somewhere close to the border with USA. However, if the only people who are interested in joining either already live in USA or can easily enter this lovely country, then holding our Inclusive- DevCon in USA would make more sense - in that case it will be somewhere in San Diego area. Alternatively, if there is anyone in the community who shares my stated values of wider inclusion but cannot or does not wish to travel to USA or Mexico, if you would be willing to host an inclusive event in your part of the world, then I will consider traveling to attend your event - but *only* if your event is open to non-Osmocom PSS developers *and* open to those who refuse injections. Please note, however, that I cannot enter Russia - other parts of the former USSR including Transnistria are potentially accessible to me, but not Russia - I was born there, but I permanently lost the ability to visit my birthplace as a result of having done my gender transition while living in USA, with all steps for legal name and gender change done under the American system, as opposed to Russian. In hacking solidarity, Mother Mychaela of FreeCalypso