[ripe-list] CoC and RIPE meetings

WARNING: This post contains IRONY and, despite great care having
been taken in producing it, may contain traces of SARCASM!

RIPE meetings, at least to me, have become more boring and
unedifying since my first one (pretty sure it was RIPE-32).
This CoC is a great idea to make those meetings more interesting
again. It creates an opportunity to play a number of thrilling
and exciting games:

RIPE::Moscow Rules

- Spot the Informer: Look around you in sessions and at lunch!
  Can you spot the CoC-Stasi?

- Countersurveillance: Spot and evade surveillance by
  making Surveillance Detection Runs through the meeting venue!

- Clandestine Comms: Communicate covertly with other Dissidents!
  Use dead drops, brush passes and encrypted wifi!

- Busted: Tell a joke to someone you trust and find out they've been
  working for the Stasi all along!

- Do Unto Others: Report your colleague before they report you!

Prizes: 
If you make it to Friday without being reported to the
CoC-Stasi, you may come back to play at the next meeting. 
If not, you are burned and banned from playing. But do not
despair: you can still try and play again at PRO level:

- Incognito: Construct your legend and use it to try to
  infiltrate a meeting despite having been burned before!

Hell I might even go to a meeting again myself and try my hand at
tradecraft!

All humour aside:

Abolish RIPE meetings. They do not serve any purpose (anymore)
that cannot be served online more easily and less expensively. 
The NCC has budgeted a cool EUR 2.18 million for meetings in
2020[1] That is a rough EUR100 per member now and likely to be
significantly more in the future. 
They are also, as we have been told again and again, horrible
events, attended by monsters, where nobody in their right mind
wants to go. I really don't know why any member should want to
pay for *that*
So abolish them. That should also obviate the need for a Code Of
Conduct and its enforcers.

rgds,
Sascha Luck

[1] https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2019/draft-ripe-ncc-activity-plan-and-budget-2020.pdf