Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 Dates And Upcoming Decisions
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:18:53 -0700 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:12:48AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 09/27/2013 03:47 PM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Patty Langasek harmo...@dodds.net [2013.09.27.1928 +0200]: 2. DebCamp - yes or no? We do not have official venue (talk rooms) for the week prior to our reserved dates (or the week after). If we do have DebCamp, it will need to be restricted in number and time (it won't be a week long). I think we should stick with DebCamp and we should try as hard as possible to make it as long as possible. We do not need talk rooms for that, but we do need hack space for 80 people or thereabouts (with whiteboards ideally). And accomodation and food. I also think we should try to retain debcamp if at all possible. As someone who has worked on the network infrastructure for debconf in past conferences, debcamp is when much of the custom/specialized network setup and testing actually happens. You'll certainly get no disagreement from me about the importance of having reliable infrastructure for the conference, but sponsoring 80 people to come in for a week and manually stress-test it before DebConf is a poor way to accomplish that. We can do much better - we have deep and broad professional knowledge in Debian when it comes to infrastructure, and we have a lot of time to get this figured out. The venue is open to the public, and we could start working with PSU's network team *immediately* to identify any infrastructure shortfalls. We just need someone with experience running the DebConf network to lay out for us what the requirements are, in black and white. In fact, wiki.debconf.org seems like a nice place to record such things. ;) I've created a blank page with some open questions; I would appreciate it if those who have experience running the DebConf network would help fill it out. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Requirements/Network Video Team has something in a wiki page [0] can be useful to know what video team needs. I checked the DebConf Manual [1] but there is nothing about the Network. If we only get access to the facilities the first day of debconf, i suspect that we will have a conference network much poorer than people have grown to expect. We will probably also have a much grumpier network team (is that possible?) because setup work will take them away from the other scheduled activities of the conference itself. If we have no debcamp, does the PDX team have a proposal for how to get the conference network in place effectively starting on the first day? DebCamp is NOT about DebConf setup. We will ensure that the network and video teams have all reasonable access for setup before the start of the conference, and are prepared for the local team to act in an advanced reconnaissance role wrt the venue facilities. But let's not conflate that with the question of DebCamp. Right, DebCamp is not about DebConf setup, as it is in the debian wiki[2], is about hacking, so IMHO it would be really great to have DebCamp as usual :) Regards, [0] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam/Network [1] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Category:DebConf_Manual [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebCamp -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] URGENT: Open questions about DC12 finances to finish Final Report
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:23:29 +0100 Henning Sprang henning.spr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, To finish the finance part of the DC12 Final Report(miracles sometimes need a bit longer to happen...), I urgently need some missing information - adding names where I believe to know who can help me, but anybody having answers to these questions is invited to step ahead :) Thanks in advance! * Missing receipts or contract or any formal paper confirming the full and total hotel payment ** can probably answered by Norman? Or Leo, do you have a copy of this? I'll go to Seminole tomorrow, the receipts are still in there. * Missing Up to date isic bank account data with the very latest data especially the last hotel payment transfers ** that is ~1650$ cash draw for pre-last hotel payment, spi-isic transfer for last hotel payment, ~4100$ cash draw for very last hotel payment ** Norman? Is it the same as the other one? If you get the hotel receipt, can this point be solved? Looks like yes to me :) * Review/help with ledger data: total balance is about 0, but assets look strange - bis minusses on one side, bis plusses still on spi and ffis... ** can someonelook into this and review the data? Darst? Norman? Is the info about sponsors bag expenses in the ledger? that was an expense post-debconf and not sure if is recorded in the ledger. * missing receipts for some smaller amounts ** Please see missing_receipts.ods in SVN - especially the receipt for bags and the tshirts part that has not been paid by SIMAS seems ti be missing, ** Leo, Norman? I'll check the receipts you left me tomorrow, I have it in the office and today I'll not go there. But I think I don't have receipt for bags and tshirts, maybe Leo, he was the one charge of those payments and not me, as far as I can remember. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 Platinum sponsor
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 23:07:46 -0600 Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: Raphaël Walther dijo [Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:34:38AM +0100]: Hi there ! I am very glad to announce that the Matanel Foundation has decided to become Platinum sponsor of DebConf13! You know, I opened this mail quite early today... And left it marked as unread just to remind me later on I should be happy and cheerful — Wheee! Thanks! Congratulations! :-D As they supported also DebConf12 I would like to provide them with the final report by the end of the month. Is it realistic ? Also, it would help us for fundraising. Hummm... It *should* be. And if an important sponsor is expecting it, even more so. I understand the Nicaraguan people had the need to send the report some time ago to HIVOS — Norman, what happene to it? Is there anything we can give Matanel? Does somebody know what is missing? I will write an spanish version this weekend in order to send it to HIVOS, it was one of the agreements in the contract ISIC signed with them. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 Platinum sponsor
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:11:01 +0100 Raphaël Walther raphael.walt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there ! On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 11:07:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Raphaël Walther dijo [Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:34:38AM +0100]: Hi there ! I am very glad to announce that the Matanel Foundation has decided to become Platinum sponsor of DebConf13! You know, I opened this mail quite early today... And left it marked as unread just to remind me later on I should be happy and cheerful — Wheee! Thanks! Congratulations! :-D I am very happy about it as well :-D As they supported also DebConf12 I would like to provide them with the final report by the end of the month. Is it realistic ? Also, it would help us for fundraising. Hummm... It *should* be. And if an important sponsor is expecting it, even more so. I understand the Nicaraguan people had the need to send the report some time ago to HIVOS — Norman, what happene to it? Is there anything we can give Matanel? Does somebody know what is missing? I didn't work on that so far. In my opinion we need someone to take the lead on that. Any volonteers ? It will help us to raise money. Xamanu is the one in charge of this, so I have no much information about it, it would be great to know how the process is going from him and if another person is needed to lead the Final Report, we will need to do it. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Cash Reimbursements
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:35:00 -0600 Henning Sprang henning.spr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Norman, Hi Henning, (as you're not on IRC an extra reminder) We need Cash tomorrow to be able to reimburse people who invested their private money for buying needed things. Many people are requesting it, but we don't have nearly enough in the cashbox. Is it possible(as in: can you, please :) ) to get that tomorrow - including enough small change as we have no rounded amounts? I don't wanna save this as a last minute task for me, and I don't want to start splitting it and pay people partially and have to track that. If you confirm I gonna let you know the exact amount needed. Please confirm the amount and we will have that money tomorrow :) Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:30:30 +0200 Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org wrote: Hi Norman! * Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net [2012-06-13 17:32]: Right, what I know organizations does in those case, is to exchange dollars to cordobas in a bank, so you will have a official support of the exchange rate. I think that will be ok for you. Long story short: If they want USD the need to put USD on the invoice. If the invoice is in cordobas they will get cordobas transferred. Ok martin, thanks Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Having money at hand in DebConf in general
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:45:12 -0500 Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: Hi, Hi Gunnar, I'm sending this mail prompted by the sudden problem we are having due to having to send quotes (proformas, invoices, facturas or whatever) to FFIS before they can wire us any money to be spent in Nicaragua, and mainly because of the time each such transfer will take (and the money it will cost - AFAICT, there is a fixed bank fe per international transaction, and it is in our interest to keep the number of transactions as low as possible). Yes there is a fixed bank fee, depending of the amount of money transfered and the bank. About the time, I asked to an accountant working in a NGO that receive money from Europe and he told me that it take one week for the money to come to .ni But not only we want to have as few transactions as possible - We need today (and we will badly need two weeks from now!) to have money available as we need it (of course, being committed to spend it correctly and getting proper invoices for every expense we make). We have to be able to approve money to be spent right away for any day-to-day issue we find. Right, we need to have money here in Nicaragua, and of course we must spend this money in a proper way with the correct approval of DebConf. How has this been handled in past conferences? Is there a way a larger sum (more than what we have quotes/invoices for) can be transfered to ISIC, with us being responsible that it is completely accounted for? I think DebConf chairs, ISIC and locals organizers can be responsible of record every cent we spend here so both SPI and FFIS will have all the receipts to support this money transfered to Nicaragua. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:53:43 +0200 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, On Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, Leandro Gómez wrote: Receipts are a whole different story. By law, and AFAIK, those must be issued in cordobas and in Spanish. issued in Cordobas? If so, please make sure they also include a Dollar price... We can try to get it in USD at least, but if not, it will include a rate exchange. Also we will give both FFIS and SPI a document explanin all the expenses. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:05:13 -0400 Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:53:43AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, Leandro Gómez wrote: Receipts are a whole different story. By law, and AFAIK, those must be issued in cordobas and in Spanish. issued in Cordobas? If so, please make sure they also include a Dollar price... It's probably best to have the documents reflect the currency of the transaction. Effective exchange rates depend on how FFIS and SPI transfer the money (e.g. international wire transfer, XEtrade, currency conversion fees, etc) and on what date the money transfer to ISIC (or direct venfor payment) is made. Any exchange rate provided by the vendor in their document is probably going to be different than what we actually get. Conceptually, if the obligation being presented to FFIS or SPI for payment is in cordobas, then it's up to FFIS or SPI to figure out how to make the right amount of cordobas end up in the right place by the deadline. A dollar or euro amount is only relevant to their subsequent recordkeeping and for DebConf's budgeting. Right, what I know organizations does in those case, is to exchange dollars to cordobas in a bank, so you will have a official support of the exchange rate. I think that will be ok for you. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Networking status
Hi Team, This week I had another meeting with UCA networking team, and here is some things we check for every room, remember that we will use four rooms (Aula Magna as main room, Gorostiaga as HAcklab, Roberto Terán as second talk room and Armando López as third talk room and/or hacklab) As I told you before, we have a Catalyst 2960 G24TCL as the Main debconf switch borrowed by a member of the local free software community, three gbic connectors, three patch cords and two 1000 mbps transcievers. = Aula Magna, with Video = * On the communication room side ** It will be connected directly to the DebConf switch. * On the room side ** Now it has a 100 mbps with a 100 mbps switch. ** We will remove those and we will use one of the two 1000 mbps transcievers de 1000 mbps (tp-link) ** We will need one 1000 mbps switch here. = Gorostiaga = * On the communication room side ** It will be connected directly to the DebConf switch. * On the room side ** UCA will give us a 1000 mbps transciever ** We will need switches. = R. Terán, with Video = * On the communication room side ** There is a 1000 mbps transciever already, it will be connected to an UTP port in the DebConf switch. * On the room side ** We will have a Cat6 UTP 1000 mbps ** We will need one 1000 mbps switch = Armnado Lopez = * On the communication room side ** The 100 mbps we will remove from Aula Magna it will be used here. * On the room side ** There is an 2950 switch - 100 mbps from UCA already installed here --- As you can see we are still looking from swtiches to use in Gorostiaga (hacklab) and Roberto Terán (second talk room), I'm trying with the local community to see if someone can borrow us swtiches :) but if you want to help us you are welcome :) The server will be next to the communication room, and the UCA networking team will have ready five UTP cables from communication room to server room We are plannig to mount the switch in the communication room and prepare connections in rooms in Friday June 29th and Saturday June 30th if we are not ready on Friday. Any question/doubt from the networking team? Regards -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:22:58 +0200 Martin Schulze j...@infodrom.org wrote: Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Norman, On Freitag, 8. Juni 2012, Norman García Aguilar wrote: I would like to know what is the procedure in order to transfer DebConf12 money from SPI/FISS to Nicaragua. We are very close to DebConf12 and we need to pay some things. The payments we need to do are: [...] We have all the transfer information ready. We need to know who are the persons in charge and what is the procedure to make the request to SPI/FFIS. Thank you darst, I really don't know what is the procedure so that's why I'm asking, Acording to the budget: * The venue cost is 11,519.34USD, and we would like to pay 50%, which is 5,759.67. * The food cost is 15,675.00 USD, and we would need 50% before DebConf starts, which is 7837.00 * We need money to order bags and shirts, for those we have in our budget 3,600, we will need it all before DebConf. This give you a total of USD 17196.67. In FISS we have at this time EUR11247.69, with a exchange rate of 1.3 is USD14621.99, and we will need the USD3,558.25 we have in SPI at this time. All the money, as you may know, will go to ISIC, our legal representation here in Nicaragua for DebConf12. I'm not sure, or rather, I dont think, ffis can just transfer money to ISIC, without anything. So I'm cc:ing them. Indeed. That said, do you have invoices from the hotel, food, etc, that we can pass to ffis? That would be helpful. We can give a quote from venue, food and t-shirt/bags, we will have the invoices once we pay. What name does the invoice needs to have? FFIS? ISIC? Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 21:40:38 +0200 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, On Freitag, 8. Juni 2012, Norman García Aguilar wrote: We can give a quote from venue, food and t-shirt/bags, we will have the invoices once we pay. I think ffis needs the invoices _before_, or? Nobody will give us invoices if we don't pay, at least UCA told us today that as a education entity (University) they doesn't have invoices, they will give us oficial receipt once we pay them, before that they can only give us a quote. And as I can remember, when I buy something, companies will give a receipt every time I make a payment and when I cancel the total amount then they give an invoice. So, we will not get an invoice if we don't pay, at least, we can give you quotes. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:58:55 -0400 Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:45:02PM -0600, Norman García Aguilar wrote: Nobody will give us invoices if we don't pay, at least UCA told us today that as a education entity (University) they doesn't have invoices, they will give us oficial receipt once we pay them, before that they can only give us a quote. And as I can remember, when I buy something, companies will give a receipt every time I make a payment and when I cancel the total amount then they give an invoice. So, we will not get an invoice if we don't pay, at least, we can give you quotes. I think the confusion here is merely terminology, for both SPI and FFIS. When you say quotes, do you mean something that means DebConf12 is obligated to pay .XX cordobas to us by June YY for the purpose of , even if there may be more payments in either direction later to finalize things? In that case, if you give each organization quotes, receipts, and invoices as they are available, it will probably meet all the requirements. Hopefully FFIS agrees - I certainly am less familiar with their needs than SPI's. Right Jimmy, I'm waiting the document from UCA and then I will send to SPI and FFIS to check is the right document :) Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
Hello Team, I would like to know what is the procedure in order to transfer DebConf12 money from SPI/FISS to Nicaragua. We are very close to DebConf12 and we need to pay some things. The payments we need to do are: * Venue: We want to pay a % now. * Food: We need to pay a % * T-shirts: We need to order this ASAP. * Bags: We need to order this ASAP. * Banners: We need to order this ASAP. All the amounts are in debconf-team svn We have all the transfer information ready. We need to know who are the persons in charge and what is the procedure to make the request to SPI/FFIS. Thanks in advance. Regards -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net pgpsRnkxZKuh2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:36:08 -0400 Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: Norman, On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:12:38PM -0600, Norman García Aguilar wrote: Hello Team, I would like to know what is the procedure in order to transfer DebConf12 money from SPI/FISS to Nicaragua. We are very close to DebConf12 and we need to pay some things. The payments we need to do are: * Venue: We want to pay a % now. * Food: We need to pay a % * T-shirts: We need to order this ASAP. * Bags: We need to order this ASAP. * Banners: We need to order this ASAP. All the amounts are in debconf-team svn We have all the transfer information ready. We need to know who are the persons in charge and what is the procedure to make the request to SPI/FFIS. Perhaps you could say here how much you are wanting to transfer now? This email is more to maintain transparency, rather than really ask permission, so it would be good to say how much we need, what organization you think it should come from, how much goes to which of these places (so that people who can't see svn can also follow along). Thank you darst, I really don't know what is the procedure so that's why I'm asking, Acording to the budget: * The venue cost is 11,519.34USD, and we would like to pay 50%, which is 5,759.67. * The food cost is 15,675.00 USD, and we would need 50% before DebConf starts, which is 7837.00 * We need money to order bags and shirts, for those we have in our budget 3,600, we will need it all before DebConf. This give you a total of USD 17196.67. In FISS we have at this time EUR11247.69, with a exchange rate of 1.3 is USD14621.99, and we will need the USD3,558.25 we have in SPI at this time. All the money, as you may know, will go to ISIC, our legal representation here in Nicaragua for DebConf12. So, it looks like we will need all the money we have right now. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 23:25:45 -0600 Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:36:08 -0400 Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: Norman, On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:12:38PM -0600, Norman García Aguilar wrote: Hello Team, I would like to know what is the procedure in order to transfer DebConf12 money from SPI/FISS to Nicaragua. We are very close to DebConf12 and we need to pay some things. The payments we need to do are: * Venue: We want to pay a % now. * Food: We need to pay a % * T-shirts: We need to order this ASAP. * Bags: We need to order this ASAP. * Banners: We need to order this ASAP. All the amounts are in debconf-team svn We have all the transfer information ready. We need to know who are the persons in charge and what is the procedure to make the request to SPI/FFIS. Perhaps you could say here how much you are wanting to transfer now? This email is more to maintain transparency, rather than really ask permission, so it would be good to say how much we need, what organization you think it should come from, how much goes to which of these places (so that people who can't see svn can also follow along). Thank you darst, I really don't know what is the procedure so that's why I'm asking, Acording to the budget: * The venue cost is 11,519.34USD, and we would like to pay 50%, which is 5,759.67. * The food cost is 15,675.00 USD, and we would need 50% before DebConf starts, which is 7837.00 * We need money to order bags and shirts, for those we have in our budget 3,600, we will need it all before DebConf. This give you a total of USD 17196.67. In FISS we have at this time EUR11247.69, with a exchange rate of 1.3 is USD14621.99, and we will need the USD3,558.25 we have in SPI at this time. All the money, as you may know, will go to ISIC, our legal representation here in Nicaragua for DebConf12. So, it looks like we will need all the money we have right now. Sorry, with FFIS and SPI we have USD18180.23 and I calculated USD 17196.67, we have a thousand extra, that I'm sure we will need it for other things here :) Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 23:25:45 -0600 Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:36:08 -0400 Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: Norman, On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:12:38PM -0600, Norman García Aguilar wrote: Hello Team, I would like to know what is the procedure in order to transfer DebConf12 money from SPI/FISS to Nicaragua. We are very close to DebConf12 and we need to pay some things. The payments we need to do are: * Venue: We want to pay a % now. * Food: We need to pay a % * T-shirts: We need to order this ASAP. * Bags: We need to order this ASAP. * Banners: We need to order this ASAP. All the amounts are in debconf-team svn We have all the transfer information ready. We need to know who are the persons in charge and what is the procedure to make the request to SPI/FFIS. Perhaps you could say here how much you are wanting to transfer now? This email is more to maintain transparency, rather than really ask permission, so it would be good to say how much we need, what organization you think it should come from, how much goes to which of these places (so that people who can't see svn can also follow along). Thank you darst, I really don't know what is the procedure so that's why I'm asking, Acording to the budget: * The venue cost is 11,519.34USD, and we would like to pay 50%, which is 5,759.67. * The food cost is 15,675.00 USD, and we would need 50% before DebConf starts, which is 7837.00 * We need money to order bags and shirts, for those we have in our budget 3,600, we will need it all before DebConf. This give you a total of USD 17196.67. In FISS we have at this time EUR11247.69, with a exchange rate of 1.3 is USD14621.99, and we will need the USD3,558.25 we have in SPI at this time. All the money, as you may know, will go to ISIC, our legal representation here in Nicaragua for DebConf12. So, it looks like we will need all the money we have right now. Sorry, with FFIS and SPI we have USD18180.23 and I calculated USD 17196.67, we have a extra of USD983.56, and I'm sure we will need it for other things here :) Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship team
Hi DebConf Team, We are creating the travel sponsorship team and we are looking for volunteers. Cate and I are the only members of this group at the moment, and we are trying to arrange a meeting with the team once is created. Cate made a poll on doodle so you can choose your prefered date+hours for the meeting. Take note that this team has a lot of work, so we need to make this meeting ASAP so we can start to work. If you want to be part of this team, plasee add yourself in the wikipage [0] or reply this email and pick a prefered date/hour on this doodle poll [1] Regards, [0] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/Teams [1] http://www.doodle.com/7gasmbpvb3exc8k5 -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net pgpGRpZKmTMKd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Mail about sponsoring to Debian consultants
On Sat, 26 May 2012 13:00:10 +0200 Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org wrote: Hi As discussed at the last meeting I drafted a mail to be sent out to all the addresses on the Debian consultants list. Unfortunately (for Debconf, not for me ;-) ) I'm going to be away until Monday late evening and I won't have time to send the mail. I have commited the text and the extracted list of addresses to the debconf-team SVN repository. So if anyone has some time to do this, feel free to just send the mail. It may even be better if the mail was sent from someone a bit more known for doing DebConf organisation and who can also better answer possible questions. My idea was to also attach the sponsoring brochure PDF from the website. Maybe it's a good idea to send the email with a @debian.org or @debconf.org email, or is not neccessary? and we can add a link to the document, so we don't need to attach the document. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship deadline
On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:19:41 +0100 Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 20:18 +0100, Moray Allan wrote: Can some people work on personalised registration status messages, to go out as soon as possible but certainly before the sponsorship deadline? It's much easier if attendees find their mistakes now, rather than having to make special requests to us after the deadline. I'm checking penta and mailing people so they can fix some missing information. Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] fiber switch needed / planning the network
On Fri, 4 May 2012 19:09:35 -0600 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, (mail written in very short time due to bunissimo RL foo in .ni :-) we will be able to use the universities fibres to connect the different buildings at UCA university, see svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data/dc12/uca-map.xcf servers is where the serveroom is, which also has the uplink arriving. there we need a fibre switch. see the lower bunch of cables (which are all marked with the location of the other end!) on http://layer-acht.org/fotos/660_Nicaragua_2012/20120504_009_Sm.jpg.212.html One such other end you can see in http://layer-acht.org/fotos/660_Nicaragua_2012/20120424_014_Sm.jpg.12.html (Thats in aula 2. Aula 1+3 and the hacklabs are equally equipped.) So the question is, who can bring such a switch and is also arriving very early at DebCamp? I'm getting a CISCO WS-2960G-24TC-L borrowed from june 25th to july 15th. It has four sfp ports and 20 gigabit ethernet ports. We will check with UCA Network Admin to see if it will solve our needs :) Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Today's DebConf global meeting report
On Thu, 10 May 2012 00:34:50 -0600 Rodrigo Rodríguez roir...@ubuntu.org.ni wrote: * A local spanish teacher will be offering classes too. Please contact xamanu (Felix) or h01ger about this. Assuming the potential demand, we should create a list of teachers of spanish for DebConf. Maybe Felix can add the data of his teacher (name, teaching schedules, contact information) and we can add one or two more teachers. Rodrigo, is the same teacher, so don't worry :) this will be organized by the fun and free time team :) Regards, -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Today's DebConf global meeting report
Hi DebConf Team! Today we have our usual debconf global meeting, the agenda it was 1. field report * We have some picture from h01ger visit at http://layer-acht.org/fotos/660_Nicaragua_2012/ * We are happy to inform that localteam is bigger than it seems on IRC, 2-3 times the size. * UCA has 3 good auditoriums (one for workshops rather then talks) * http://media.debconf.org/dc12/map/uca-map.png 2. open points problems * Uplink is just not clear yet, looks good though, we will know in 2 weeks for sure. additionally local team is working on alternatives * We will need a fiber switch http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120505.010935.9b73080a.en.html * We have an open court in the University available as a food place. It's not very big, It's open, so we have to get a roof (tent?) for it (rain season starts in July), there's not light at night 3. Debian day * Our Debian Day plan is in http://whiteboard.debian.net/dc12-debianday.wb * On local stands during debianday for 500 USD. with no mentioning them in our press releases (as indiviual sponsors) nor on the website * We would appreciate spanish speakers, but we still need simultaneos translators for english talks (if we need them) * Please check Requests/ideas for talks 4. budget * We still have no budget for travel sponsorship and accom, but at least we will have a debconf. * At the date, registration is about 150 people. 5. travel sponsorship team * We still do not have money for that, but even if we have no money we have some money at least for central americans, so we should form this team. we also need to do this to decide who will hotel accomodation sponsored! 6. Sponsorship team * We have no enough money, so we need to create this team, sponsorship team (bursaries/support/grants/whatever) * n0rman will lead the sponsorship rating team, he needs to recruit more people. * please read http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/TravelSponsorship 7. Government status * Meeting with two government institutions. * Good discussions with the government, concrete results pending in the next 2-3 weeks. 8. Free and leisure time * There are events planned for most of the days/nights (such as concerts, poetry night, theatre, etc..) and some permanent offers (like yoga, massages, etc..) * We have fito (spanish speaker only) in charge of this. * All information is still in Spanish language, but will be translated and put into penta when the things are getting more concrete. * All of this it will only option localteam wants to offer debconfers. * A local spanish teacher will be offering classes too. Please contact xamanu (Felix) or h01ger about this. 9. DebConf12 art * You can check http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/Artwork * Local team is working on more designs 10. Food team status * We have five quotations and we are evaluating better option. * We are trying to have food in UCA, the place we have now is a small open space and we need to use tents. * We have vegetarians/vegans in our food team taking care of this. 11. AOB/next meeting Meeting is for May 22 (TUESDAY!) 18 UTC -- Norman García Aguilar nor...@riseup.net pgpFhL0fQP74p.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
