Hi Karsten--
On Mon 2015-07-27 15:26:47 -0400, Karsten Merker wrote:
I have just looked through the current talk schedule for DC15 in
summit and have stumbled over two cases where one speaker would
have to hold two talks at the same time:
The first case concerns Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
2015
On Wed 2015-02-25 18:41:07 -0500, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Can we just owe them a glass of water?
served in a drinking bottle with a debian swirl on it :)
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On Tue 2015-02-24 15:06:57 -0500, Margarita Manterola wrote:
I agree with what has already been posted that None is a very bad
idea that it doesn't really convey the meaning. It should be explicit,
i.e. Ovo-lacto vegetarian, no None or similar in the string. Please,
whatever is decided, let's
On Fri 2015-02-06 04:21:15 -0500, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
I think this is the right approach to the problem Daniel (dkg) was
worried about in his reply. Finding the right proportion of vegetarian
food will be an iterative process. I suggest to start with a proportion
of vegetarian which seems
On Thu 2015-02-05 03:13:46 -0500, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote:
While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the
vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to
skip meat one day, I really don't agree with your
On Thu 2015-02-05 13:47:14 -0500, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
I fail to see why you think that the current proposed wording of no
dietary restrictions implies that every meal will have meat.
I think this because i've seen it happen very often.
Many conference meals i've been at include explicit
On Wed 2015-02-04 11:21:19 -0500, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:42:18AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
Dietary restrictions:
- Not applicable
- No dietary restrictions Default
- Vegetarian
- Vegan (strict vegetarian)
- Other (contact registrat...@debconf.org
On Thu 2015-01-29 11:37:43 -0500, Martín Ferrari wrote:
By initiative of Paul Wise, recently there has been some talks about
inviting a LWN journalist to cover DebConf15, by offering travel and
board sponsoring.
LWN is one of the most respected news outlets in the Linux world, they
have a
On 09/10/2014 11:09 PM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote:
Also, I don't like the idea of publicizing the raffle as a motivating
factor to attend DC events. I can't find words now to express this, but
it sounds to me a kind of legitimation of laziness, DebConf officially
tolerating the fact that a
On 09/04/2014 04:07 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org [2014-09-04 11:38 -0700]:
¹) Instead of increasing their flexibility and staff after we
informed them of our impending arrival, the Rogue actually upped
their prices for DebConf from $5 to $5.75.
On 09/03/2014 12:33 AM, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
I was trying to look into some old videos of debconf9 from 2009. I see an
empty page when I reach there.
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2009/debconf9/
I see two directories there: high and low, which both appear to
On 07/02/2014 06:06 AM, René Mayorga wrote:
On the last global team meeting the Schedule structure were decided[1],
based on that information and with the efforts of Ana and Martin, plus
some discussion on #debconf-team, we have reach the schedule structure
noted below.([2] for graphic
On 05/02/2014 01:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
I don't really have a strong opinion on whether this should be part of a
CoC. If we accept that the dual purpose of the CoC is to make people feel
welcome who would otherwise fear being subjected to abuse and to remind
people to be on their best
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
On 08/25/2013 06:06 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
Part of the discussion about Debconf with kids should be kept private.
So please, create this list, unarchived and with subscription moderated.
I think debconf-families is ambiguous and I would prefer debconf-kids
or debconf-parents, but I
On 08/21/2013 03:30 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Very valid point. Asking this via penta would allow the talks team to
schedule such talks in untaped rooms.
as someone who has been on the talks team in the past (i was basically
AWOL this year) it would help us in talk scheduling to have a
On 08/19/2013 11:32 AM, Hector Oron wrote:
I would be interested to help on planning parallel activities for
families with kids, so it is possible to ease Debian Developers attend
conference while their families keep entertained.
I plan to attend DC14, and i also want to help with this.
On 05/01/2013 09:50 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
So, I'd suggest , as we have done on other teams, to invite people
that were on the team in the past to repeat. FWIW, I intend to
repeat.
I'm not going to be able to attend DC13, sadly. I'm willing to try to
help review talks, but i can't make a
On 03/31/2013 02:59 PM, David Prévot wrote:
On Mar 31, 2013 12:01 PM, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote:
I try to avoid using Paypal myself for reasons unrelated to their fees
Would you mind sharing those reasons?
I'm not moray, but i'll tell you mine:
i used to have a paypal account.
On 02/19/2013 01:38 PM, micah anderson wrote:
I've added dkg, and Andrew McMillan to the CC list, we've all been part
of debconf tech setup/networking in the past.
I'm interested, and happy to stay in the loop, but i'm just now coming
to grips with some immutable personal scheduling that makes
On 01/31/2013 02:00 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
- a couple of people (I think dkg was one of them) provided IRC feedback
about the day trip report, but I can't locate copies of their comments
I don't remember that specifically, but Bremner's plainly inadequate
update to the daytrip report (svn's
On 01/29/2013 03:09 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
Le samedi, 26 janvier 2013 14.55:09, Raphaël Walther a écrit :
The report is half finished under the 'debconf-data/reports/dc12'
directory.
I have now cleaned it a tiny bit to make it look more polished, in
particular:
I have commented
On 01/29/2013 11:48 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
I can have a look tonight and maybe fill the gaps. I don't think we have
to go too much into details anyway.
thanks!
I can fill in this information if you think it's relevant.
yes, i do think that's relevant. i'd like other people to know what
On 01/29/2013 01:24 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
If that's about the network I wasn't entirely happy with the wi-fi last
year. ;-)
i wasn't entirely happy about it either, but it did basically work, from
what i saw. Anyway, knowing what we used specifically is useful either way.
I set up a free
On 01/13/2013 01:22 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
- wiki.debconf.org is now only reachable by SSL. non-ssl gets
redirected. Though I would be happy enough to let non-ssl access it
too, if someone takes the time to tweak either the apache config or
mediawiki so that it requires SSL for logins
Sorry to pile into an already long thread here.
I'm one of the people who has raised the childcare question (i asked
about it during the debconf14 bid session at dc12), and i just wanted to
put it in my 2¢ about why this is a worthy goal and also maybe rein it
in some and put it in perspective.
[re: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/LogoIdeas#Second_Round ]
On 07/25/2012 12:17 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
On Wed Jul 25, 2012 at 12:10:02 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Does anyone have a better proposal for how to conduct such a poll on
debian (or debian-related
On 07/08/2012 02:35 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote:
A possible way to sweeten the deal could be to offer a power outlet
to the talk room coordinators? I noticed there's no power in the talk
rooms.
yes, i think that's a good idea. i'll see if we can arrange that.
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On 07/06/2012 04:00 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
we really do need them. someone, please confirm that *you* are working on
this. talks team, maybe?
yes, i'm setting up http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/Talks and
will send a message to debconf-announce about it shortly.
thanks for the nudge,
On 03/15/2012 06:22 PM, Moray Allan wrote:
ICBW but I'm not sure Condorcet is sensible for a multi-winner election?
There are several mechanisms to use condorcet to produce an overall
ranking (with possibility of some ambiguity if there is ambiguity in the
electorate):
On 02/25/2012 06:11 AM, Moray Allan wrote:
I think rivers have banks, but lakes have shores. Opinions from other
native English speakers? (This is the kind of thing that could easily
vary by region.)
As a USAian native english speaker, i believe Moray is littorally correct.
--dkg
On 12/06/2011 08:31 AM, Leandro Gómez wrote:
I've create a doodle poll for the next global team meeting. Please choose
the date and time that suits you best:
http://www.doodle.com/wt7xyuc38y4sr73d
it may just be the non-javascript version of the poll, but fwict these
proposed times don't
On 07/23/2011 11:40 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
I must have been looking at the wrong watch - please move it up to
19:00-19:15,
The group photo is now scheduled for 19:00 on the 26th of July.
Thanks, Aigars!
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On 07/22/2011 09:06 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:05:30PM +0200, micah anderson wrote:
I don't think its particularly germane or illustrative to compare Clint's
answer to the first question to dkg's. A more interesting comparison is to
compare Clint's response to
Hi folks--
the talks team has just clarified and normalized the names of the rooms
where the talks wil be held. The two rooms that have video-team
coverage are:
* Auditorium
* Round Room
The third talks room (see recent debconf-discuss announcement) is:
* Meeting room
The names have been
Thanks for the statistics, Jimmy!
On 07/21/2011 12:46 AM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
Percentage of herb-team members applying for sponsorship: 50%
Percentage of herb-team members applying for sponsorship who got a perfect
score: ~83%
[...]
Average score for herb-team members who requested
On 07/21/2011 08:34 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
After checking the locations available and the times, it looks like
there is no good place where to take the photo at the planned time,
The best time to take the photo is around 19:00-19:30 directly in
front of the main venue, so I would propose
i dunno about the rest of the questions, but:
On 07/20/2011 06:38 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
- What is the situation on drinks for meals? Is DebConf going to have
to pay for that?
Thus far, water is free and plentiful at meals, and people who want
anything else have been paying for beers
On 07/20/2011 07:57 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it
included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am
further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10.
I don't think Clint should be left out like this.
On 07/20/2011 11:03 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
For
the record, not every travel sponsorship requestor on the herb team got
perfect
scores, so this wasn't theoretical.
I'm glad to hear this! Out of curiosity, what percentage of the herb
team members that did apply for travel sponsorship did
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:41:33 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote:
I believe Brian Gupta (here in NY) has access to the wifi routers we
used (or tried to use) in DC10. I'll be coming at the start of debcamp
this year, and could get them from Brian and take them with me when
On 07/11/2011 05:02 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:41:33 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote:
I believe Brian Gupta (here in NY) has access to the wifi routers we
used (or tried to use) in DC10. I'll be coming at the start of debcamp
this year
On 06/18/2011 05:48 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Ok, so I spent some time scheduling the top-rated talks today, and we
have a preliminary schedule to start working with. Yay!
Thank you, Gunnar!
• We are scheduling so far on two rooms only. We can add a BoF room if
needed, but it will not have
On 06/09/2011 12:58 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
If doesn't make your day I don't know what will.
Our gold sponsor Mtel has decided to give *every* DebConf11 attendee a
phone number and package along with it! I got too excited so I'm not
sure I got it right but I think this is the package they
On 06/09/2011 01:24 PM, Moray Allan wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote:
c) if debconf actively encourages the adoption of non-free tools, or
actively excludes users who do not adopt non-free tools, it would seem
to distance the conference
On 06/09/2011 01:45 PM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote:
As I see they will provide a SIM card with a bunch of credits for DC11
people. Is that too bad? I think it's a good news for DC attendees and
doesn't deserve complaints :)
I apologize for my knee-jerk response; i did not understand what was
On 06/09/2011 04:16 PM, Nedim Skenderovic wrote:
This is a very good deal, since most of people who would come would probably
buy expandable SIM cards so they can stay in touch with LOCAL TEAM or
friends for low costs. And this is a free offer that you can accept or not,
nobody is forcing you.
On 06/06/2011 10:26 AM, Leandro Gómez wrote:
2011/6/6 Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@ftbfs.de
zobel@marra:~% host www.debconf11.debconf.org
Host www.debconf11.debconf.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Right. It should be http://debconf11.debconf.org. Thank you!
Thanks for catching this, Martin, and for
On 05/12/2011 02:58 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
It is fine if people use facebook/twitter/flickr/youtube/whatever to
promote DebConf. If it is clear they are doing it on their own, it is
NOT DebConf (or Debian) doing it.
But our website should NOT ever include a non-free service. Either there
On 05/12/2011 11:13 AM, ValessioBrito wrote:
Is not it important to monitor and encourage DebConf comments within
these networks?
If you want to spend time on those networks, no one will stop you :)
However, the minute debian requires me to agree to the terms of service
of any of the groups
On 03/17/2011 07:46 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
i just finished merging the blog and the reports svn into debconf-data
preserving their entire history.
[...]
I set the old locations inaccessible, so noone can accidently commit or
work with them.
Thanks, Joerg! Could you update
On 02/13/2011 02:25 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
report bug:
http://wiki.debconf.org - OK!
https://wiki.debconf.org - DC7 ?
Not a bug, exactly as configured.
debconf7.debconf.org has same IP and its using ssl
if the machine is running squeeze, we should be able to use SNI to
provide name-based
On 01/27/2011 07:34 PM, Richard Darst wrote:
Penta supports selecting both a track and a event type at the time
of submission. You can see the DC10 fields here:
https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc10/event/new
I forget when the tracks were added... people on the talks team can
On 01/27/2011 08:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm
naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to
adopt for DebConf.
Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break*
before the start of
On 12/12/2010 06:06 PM, Martín Ferrari wrote:
that's just diluting what harassment means.
This is perhaps why Richard re-titled the proposed policy Standards of
Respect, and not anti-harrassment (yes, the subject of the thread is
different):
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/StandardsOfRespect
On 08/09/2010 05:05 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
I've just gotten home and am probably going afk for some relaxation
soon. But, I wanted to point out that only a few members of the DC10
localteam were active in the debian vs debconf discussion (event 658).
I hope that more of them can and
On 08/05/2010 01:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yes indeed, let's hear it for Richard!
Yes: yay Richard! Richard, you have pulled this conference through in
so many ways that i can't even begin to count them.
Your work has been and continues to be very very much appreciated.
On 08/05/2010 03:58 PM, Richard Darst wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:25:57PM -0400, Gabriella Coleman wrote:
Hi,
So anyone on the orga team who can be here for Sunday breakdown should.
I will send an announcement to debconf-announce seeking volunteers as well.
We don't have a game plan
Q and micah and i talked through the network configurations yesterday
and made some decisions about the network. These decisions were spurred
by some networking failures experienced by the video team that resulted
(afaict) in the loss of some video recordings (and the failure of some
live
I had a couple frustrating calls with Columbia facility about trying to
make the temperature more reasonable.
It's currently about 65°F, and it would be more reasonable to have it
targeted around 73°F or 74°F (sorry to the people who use reasonable
units -- it's better to communicate with folks
On 07/22/2010 04:23 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
For those who have two keys I think I'm only going to include the last 20
characters of each key's fingerprint. The QR code is too complex otherwise
(which makes it harder for mobile phones and other devices to scan it.)
For two keys, if space
Hi Daniel--
On 07/21/2010 05:17 AM, D M German wrote:
I submitted a proposal for a presentation and it was supposed to be
accepted.
yes, your talk is on 2010-08-03 from 11:30 to 12:30 local time in Davis
Auditorium. For some reason, it had been marked as not public, which
is why it was not
On 07/20/2010 01:31 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
My thought was mainly to have them in a schedule somewhere. It didn't
occur to me that penta wouldn't allow the same event to have multiple
instances. I'll put in several training sessions to be scheduled during
DebCamp.
Thanks. please
On 07/15/2010 05:51 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
On 07/15/2010 05:04 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
The later spot, please. It would be bad to loose a bunch of people due
to the early scheduling.
[...]
I lean toward the consistent schedule, but i'm open to feedback, and i
don't want to keep
I got the following message about penta from a friend. Could someone
with write access to the web site please look at fixing them?
(note that this user does not have the SPI root CA in their certificate
list)
thanks,
--dkg
On 07/20/2010 06:18 PM, a friend wrote:
A blog directed me
Hi Michael--
On 07/07/2010 10:24 AM, Michael J Daniel wrote:
Please consider moving the Debconf video training from the 6th day to
the 1st day.
This information will be more valuable to participants at the beginning
of the conference,
rather than when the conference is almost over.
Are
On 07/16/2010 02:06 AM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
-we need a homer (or somewhere else) to run dc10.debconf.org DNS (amongst
other things (but far fewer other things than most years))
I can bring a low-power machine to run DNS if you like. I don't have
anything spare that remotely approaches
On 07/15/2010 12:02 PM, Moray Allan wrote:
I think changing the schedule depending on the day will confuse people, so
unless there's a strong positive reason to change I'd suggest we keep things
fixed.
With my scheduler hat on, i'm going to agree with Moray here. I also
don't think we want to
On 07/15/2010 07:22 AM, Gabriella Coleman wrote:
On 07/15/2010 02:11 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
Hi,
In order to reserve John Jay, we need to do it something like _now_...
Is anyone opposed to brian and I working to reserve John Jay for
W/Th/F DebCamp and M/T/Th/F DebConf under the proposal
On 07/15/2010 01:16 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote:
Regarding the Schedule, it looks fine, BUT there shouldn't be
something scheduled at the same time that the group photo. This was
scheduled during the afternoon break and it's now parallel to 2 other
talks.
Whoops, you're right. the
On 07/15/2010 03:30 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
Micah is correct. It can also be a 30-45m slot just before lunch or
dinner, so that impact of delaying people for 5-10 minutes extra is
minimal.
Any preference for a 9:30-10:30 slot vs. 11:30-12:30 ?
I've cleared up space on Thursday morning.
On 07/14/2010 03:50 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
None has been selected. schultmc was the only person good enough to
voice an opinion (he prefers Z). Of course, i'm assuming that marga
prefers M.
(Ana wrote she preferes M.)
so she did
hey folks--
I swear i am not trying to open a can of worms here.
We had one big (messy, disastrous) round of talk reviews, accepted some
talks, and encouraged folks to organize not-accepted talks on-the-fly
during the conference with whatever unconference system we set up.
However, as
On 07/14/2010 06:29 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:12:23AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Could one person (only!) with write access please make this change and
report back when it is done? I could webmonkey click change it all, but
i'd really rather not.
Done
On 07/12/2010 02:31 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 09:55:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
To recap the proposals:
(0 is the status quo)
0: 10:00-12:00, LUNCH, 14:00-16:00, Break, 16:30-19:30
M: 9:30-12:30, LUNCH, 14:00-18:00
X: 9:30-11:30, LUNCH, 13:00-15:00
On 07/13/2010 05:24 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:19:28PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
On 07/12/2010 02:31 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 09:55:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
To recap the proposals:
(0 is the status quo)
0: 10:00
On 07/08/2010 08:48 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote:
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote:
On 07/08/2010 06:49 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote:
How about, rescheduling M:
* move pre-lunch events 30 minutes earlier and add 1 slot (start at
9:30, end
On 07/08/2010 09:32 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
Quito, Equator, München, Germany and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
at least in en_US, the first country mentioned is spelled Ecuador, not
Equator.
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On 07/08/2010 06:49 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote:
How about, rescheduling M:
* move pre-lunch events 30 minutes earlier and add 1 slot (start at
9:30, end at 12:30), move post-luch events 1 hour earlier (start at
14:00) and DO NOT have the half hour break from 16 to 16:30 (end at
18:00).
On 07/08/2010 12:17 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
[ please Cc:-me on replies ]
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:20:26PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
I added to the budget the donations from FFIS (~680USD) and we have
a drop out in queue A. This is 2000USD more, that means more money
because the
hey folks--
On IRC, biella brought forward a concern about the scheduling of Eben
Moglen's talk.
To address it, I'd like to propose Plan A: a shift of the schedules to
accomodate Eben's request to have his talk earlier than day 6:
* move eben's talk (641) from day 6 to day 3 -- keep same time
On 06/18/2010 11:31 AM, Clint Adams wrote:
There are many other cheese shops where you can get excellent cheese
for high prices.
I'm just changing the Subject of the thread here so i don't have a heart
attack every morning when i see a dozen new messages about debconf10
scheduling.
cheers, and
I completed the scheduling for DebConf10. You can all hate me for it now ;)
The schedule starts each day at 10:00am, and concludes at 5:30pm or
6:30pm, depending on the day.
Already, some concerns were raised on IRC about only having a 1hr gap
for lunch. If we want that lunch gap to be 1.5hrs
On 06/16/2010 07:09 AM, Andrew McMillan wrote:
Herding 250-odd DD's into a group photo does not fit in 30 minutes.
You're lucky if it fits into an hour. Do you know who will be taking
the photo? I've done it in the past, and am happy to do so again.
Aigars Mahinovs (cc'ed here) added the
On 06/16/2010 01:45 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
Yes, I will handle that. Just give me a time slot and I'll try to find
the best possible location among the available places and check the
light conditions during the previous days, so that there are no
surprises.
That sounds very reasonable.
On 06/09/2010 11:59 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jun 5, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote:
I was involved in doing the scheduling for LCA 2010. What we did
was to write every talk onto a post-it note, and then we drew up a whiteboard
with columns for each day, and within that
Hi Andrew--
On 06/05/2010 06:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote:
As an alternative though, I can provide accounts on a caldav server. We
can then create a calendar for each room, and events for each accepted
talk, and move them around in much the same manner using a CalDAV client
such as Evolution,
On 06/07/2010 02:44 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:32:41AM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
We've promised a schedule by June 15th, 10 days away. Advice from
anyone who has done this before would be awesome.
Didn't I gave advise last week or the week before last week to
hey folks--
at the global-team meeting today, i volunteered to work on scheduling
the accepted talks for DebConf10.
I've never done this before, and would appreciate any advice or
assistance anyone has to offer. I'll almost certainly need reasonable
liaisons from the venue team, the video team,
On 06/03/2010 03:27 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote:
I would propose that the best way forward, at this point, taking into
considerations all the discussions here and on IRC would be this:
1. send an acceptance to all the currently 'accepted' talks
On 06/03/2010 03:47 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Ever write a bunch of code to solve a problem, get to the end of it, and
then realize there was a much better way you should have done it?
The dc10 talks team had a long meeting tonight [0], which i'm now pretty
convinced we did the Wrong
Hi Ana--
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.
On 06/03/2010 09:14 AM, Ana Guerrero wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:47:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
In writing up the mail for the not accepted for scheduling proposals,
it became apparent that we would encourage the authors of those
On 06/03/2010 01:42 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I've helped organized a bunch of conferences and selection processes and
one thing that is clear is that the process never is anywhere close to
where you'd like to be, largely because you are basically learning how
to do it while you are
Hi Micah--
Thanks, i think your mail describes what happened and why we're in a
tough/confused state right now.
I also like your proposal, though i have two outstanding questions about
it before i feel like going ahead with it in full:
On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote:
I would
On 06/03/2010 03:27 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
I also like your proposal, though i have two outstanding questions about
it before i feel like going ahead with it in full:
ugh. This is certainly not my decision to make, and i did not mean to
imply that it was. The above should read
On 06/03/2010 04:00 PM, micah anderson wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:27:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote:
On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote:
2. send a reject notice to the bottom 20 that did not make the cut due
to the ratings
could you draft
Hey folks--
as previous mails from micah and pablo pointed out, we are having our
talks team final cut meeting today (wednesday, 2nd June) at 7pm NYC
time (23:00 UTC).
Like last week, we'll be meeting on #debconf-team, and moving to
#debconf-talks if we find we're disturbing folks on
On 06/01/2010 10:38 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Another advantage [to having plenaries] might be to communicate specific
concerns to the
broader group, for example if we have a wrap-up session with reportbacks
from track coordinators
On 06/01/2010 10:07 PM, Richard Darst wrote:
One of the things we wanted to use to outreach to the Columbia
community was a list of talks - basically, announcing a conference and
linking to some sample talks is better than just saying there will be
talks. So one of the things that some local
On 05/28/2010 12:20 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote:
The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a
magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and
not only DebConf Day 1?)
indeed, thanks or bringing this up, Ana.
Is there a good link to pint
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