Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-11 Thread Juan Pradas
Hi all, regarding the issue of the Ryanair flights to Zaragoza, finally an agreement between Ryanair and the local authorities has been reached. More or less as expected, almost all EU flights continue, in some cases with increased frequencies: LondonStansted, Milan Orio al Serio, Brussels

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, sorry to be so pushing here, but if possible by any means, I'd like to start voting this week, since we're really late already. So, if nobody objects with serious concerns and a concrete (!) proposal what to change and who (!!) does the work, I'd like to stick for 2012 with a member

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (06-02-12 18:09) sorry to be so pushing here, but if possible by any means, I'd like to start voting this week, since we're really late already. So, if nobody objects with serious concerns and a concrete (!) proposal what to change and who (!!) does the work, I'd like

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-06 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Juan, *, On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Juan Pradas juanpra...@zaragoza.es wrote: thanks for your remarks and questions about the flight connections. Thank you very much for the detailed response. [...] In your case, for example, I would probably get a flight from Munich to Barcelona,

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-05 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Christian, *, Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2012, 15:28:07 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: Hi Andreas, *, On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: (...) We had a public discussion and decision of the BoD already. If there are no unknown facts or new arguments, we

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/02/2012 Florian Effenberger wrote: Jesús Corrius wrote on 2012-02-03 14:08: We had a huge problem in the OpenOffice.org Conference 2007 in Barcelona as more than 1000 people registered for the conference and at the end there were no more than 250 people appeared. ... We should have a

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-05 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Andreas Mantke wrote on 2012-02-05 13:42: We can discuss that for the next round; maybe there are better solutions / proposals. My question is only, why we open up the discussion now (and not after the voting). The BoD had discussed the topic and decided about it in public. Everyone had

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-04 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Andreas, *, On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012, 14:08:58 schrieb Jesús Corrius: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: (...) I am open for discussion, of course, but I wonder

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-03 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi Florian, Neither can we, nor do we intend do. The point, as stated, is that in the last years, we had many joke votings, and we would like to find a system where eligible people, i.e. those contributing and most likely attending the conference, can vote. I don't think the joking votes are

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Jesús, Jesús Corrius wrote on 2012-02-03 10:54: I don't think the joking votes are that important in this particular case. We have two very serious proposals and I am sure we'll have a great LibOCon 2012 wherever we hold it. The two places are not that distant so I don't think it makes a

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-03 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Jesus, Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012, 14:08:58 schrieb Jesús Corrius: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: (...) I am open for discussion, of course, but I wonder that you seem to have a different opinion now, since the BoD has voted on

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-03 Thread drew
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:54 +0100, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi Jesus, Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012, 14:08:58 schrieb Jesús Corrius: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: (...) I am open for discussion, of course, but I wonder that you

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-02 Thread Javier Sola
I hope that the board understands that this is no longer an issue of voting for a conference location. The we can exclude you whenever we want message being sent to contributors is rather strong. Is this issue important enough that it deserves this precedent? Cheers, Javier On 1/26/12 1:00

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Javier, Javier Sola wrote on 2012-02-03 02:07: I hope that the board understands that this is no longer an issue of voting for a conference location. The we can exclude you whenever we want message being sent to contributors is rather strong. Is this issue important enough that it deserves

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-31 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, *, Florian Effenberger wrote (28-01-12 22:49) as you might have spotted, today we issued the proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference. Berlin and Zaragoza (in alphabetical order) have sent in their applications and are therefore candidates for this years' location. Do I

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Cor Nouws wrote on 2012-01-31 16:32: Do I remember well that we have/had the idea to choose the organisers one year before? As to give them the opportunity to learn from the current years organisers experience.. (Not that I think, looking at the proposals, that experience is really lacking

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-31 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote (31-01-12 17:52) we have discussed that in the past, with various arguments, but in the end decided to have the 2013 application to end in August, before this years' conference. [...] OK, sorry that I didn't remember that. No need for me to open that

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-29 Thread Jacqueline Rahemipour
Hello Bruno, thank you for starting the discussion about the proposals. Here are some answers from the Berlin-Team: Am 29.01.2012 01:04, schrieb Bruno Girin: On 28/01/12 21:49, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, (...) Questions for Berlin: * When will you have final confirmation of the

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-29 Thread Juan Pradas
rooms for 30-40 people. Thanks, best regards Juan Pradas Original Message Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:04:13 + From: Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com Reply-to: discuss@documentfoundation.org To: discuss@documentfoundation.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-28 Thread Bruno Girin
On 28/01/12 21:49, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, as you might have spotted, today we issued the proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference. Berlin and Zaragoza (in alphabetical order) have sent in their applications and are therefore candidates for this years' location. All

[OT] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-25 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Robert, Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 à 15:49 -0600, Robert Derman a écrit : Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48: Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity. Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-25 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 25.01.2012 17:57, schrieb Florian Effenberger: we just discussed about that in the BoD call, and agreed to only let members vote. Ok. So this is going to be a TDF conference. Accepted. ;-) TDF members decide about it, others are invited as guests. Accepted. ;-) However, even if not

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-25 Thread Jochen
Hi Stefan, Am 25.01.2012 18:45, schrieb Stefan Weigel: I love this freedom. :-D I also. Rgd Jochen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Stefan Weigel wrote on 2012-01-25 18:45: Ok. So this is going to be a TDF conference. Accepted. ;-) TDF members decide about it, others are invited as guests. Accepted. ;-) no, that's the wrong assumption. :) It is a conference for all interested parties, for the large community, for

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2012-01-23 02:07, Florian Effenberger a écrit : - A third option would be to send out a voting invitation to everyone subscribe to a set of mailing lists (e.g. discuss@, announce@ and so on), but send them a private token. That way, only active people in the project could vote, but TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Marc Paré wrote (24-01-12 10:36) This third option seems to make the most sense. As you imply, the most active members would then be included in the vote. I agree, but of course we say 'active people' here. As this is a form of filtering of our mailing lists active contributers, we could

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Am 23.01.2012 08:07, schrieb Florian Effenberger: - Where I'm a bit undetermined is the voting scheme itself - One option is to allow every subscriber to the announce@ lists to vote (after e-mail confirmation in the voting system itself), - another one is to allow only TDF members to vote.

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol wrote on 2012-01-24 10:57: First when I saw this thread I expected a BoD-vote. I guess that would be the wrong direction. The conference is for the communit at large, so the community should decide. In theory, that means opening up a public link so anyone can

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi Florian, 2012/1/23 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org: [..] - Where I'm a bit undetermined is the voting scheme itself [..] - another one is to allow only TDF members to vote. The latter one would exclude joke votings like we have seen them in the past, but exclude many

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi, 2012/1/24 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org: So, I'd like to find some sensible mechanism to involve as many people as possible, without opening the door for misuse of the voting. Just a guess: A minimum of five postings to any of our mailinglists up to this day? Volker

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Volker Merschmann wrote on 2012-01-24 11:06: - another one is to allow only TDF members to vote. The latter one would exclude joke votings like we have seen them in the past, but exclude many eligible people. This is what I would prefer. I think this would exclude a fair amount of

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (24-01-12 11:26) I think this would exclude a fair amount of contributors. Many of e.g. the code contributors are not members, but indeed do a very valueable work. Excluding them from voting sounds wrong. And it's not logic: the conference is not meant for members

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 1/24/12 11:04 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol wrote on 2012-01-24 10:57: First when I saw this thread I expected a BoD-vote. I guess that would be the wrong direction. The conference is for the communit at large, so the community should decide. In theory,

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2012-01-24 12:49: Would this help any facilitating the votes? http://doodle.com/ maybe, but I am not so keen in having so large votes on an ad-financed platform. Maybe we can use an own survey system. Florian -- Florian Effenberger

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Helli Florian I'd still go for letting TDF members vote, why would we have the membership then? :-) Best, Charles. Le 24 janv. 2012 13:09, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org a écrit : Hi, Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2012-01-24 12:49: Would this help any facilitating the

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Em 24-01-2012 09:03, Cor Nouws escreveu: Florian Effenberger wrote (24-01-12 11:26) I think this would exclude a fair amount of contributors. Many of e.g. the code contributors are not members, but indeed do a very valueable work.

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread drew
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:48 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Em 24-01-2012 09:03, Cor Nouws escreveu: Florian Effenberger wrote (24-01-12 11:26) I think this would exclude a fair amount of contributors. Many of e.g. the code

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 24.01.2012 14:26, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: I'd still go for letting TDF members vote, why would we have the membership then? :-) Beeing committed to the project does not necessarily mean to be a member of the TDF. The event is supposed to be a LibreOffice Conference rather than a TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread sophie
On 24/01/2012 12:03, Cor Nouws wrote: Florian Effenberger wrote (24-01-12 11:26) I think this would exclude a fair amount of contributors. Many of e.g. the code contributors are not members, but indeed do a very valueable work. Excluding them from voting sounds wrong. And it's not logic: the

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48: Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity. Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we don't want LibCon to happen. by that, we would exclude a large amount of developers, and I am sure want to

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Robert Derman
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48: Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity. Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we don't want LibCon to happen. by that, we would exclude a large amount of

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, 2012/1/23 Stefan Weigel stefan.wei...@bildungskreis.org Hi, Am 23.01.2012 08:32, schrieb Florian Effenberger: I just was privately contacted by a third proponent. They tell that due to internet connectivity issues during the weekend, they were not able to retrieve the

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2012-01-23 09:44: Moreover, because we end up with two proposals, we might not even have to vote (since we have one proposal for each year) and we only need to prioritize them. both proposal IMHO run for 2012, so we indeed should have a vote on who will be the

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
2012/1/23 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Hi, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2012-01-23 09:44: Moreover, because we end up with two proposals, we might not even have to vote (since we have one proposal for each year) and we only need to prioritize them. both proposal

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-23 Thread Robert Derman
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, we have received two proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference - thank you very much for your applications! My proposal for the voting process is as follows: - I would like to make the proposals public immediately, by uploading them to the wiki, and

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-22 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Hi Florian, *, Am 23.01.2012 08:07, schrieb Florian Effenberger: [schnipp] - A third option would be to send out a voting invitation to everyone subscribe to a set of mailing lists (e.g. discuss@, announce@ and so on), but send them a private token. That way, only active people in the project

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-22 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2012-01-23 08:07: we have received two proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference - thank you very much for your applications! I just was privately contacted by a third proponent. They tell that due to internet connectivity issues during the weekend,

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-22 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 23.01.2012 08:32, schrieb Florian Effenberger: I just was privately contacted by a third proponent. They tell that due to internet connectivity issues during the weekend, they were not able to retrieve the CfL, and thus not be able to create a proposal in time. Sounds a bit strange