On March 22, 2011, the DebConf committee decided that DebConf12, the Debian developer conference of 2012, will take place in Managua,
Nicaragua. This will be the first time DebConf takes place in Central America. The exact dates have yet to be determined. More details may be
found on the organizers’ wiki: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12. In a two-and-a-half hour meeting on Tuesday evening, the Managua bid
narrowly won over the bid from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Teams had been preparing their bids since mid-2010, seeking venues and local sponsors
in their respective cities and countries.
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