Hi, I sent a mail like this to the organizers' mailing list, but it deserves much wider dissemination. In short, please thank Richard Darst aka MrBeige for all his hard work leading the DebConf10 local team for much of the last two years. Even though it was originally my idea to seriously propose a NYC DebConf, most of the work on the conference since then was done by him, and there is no way DebConf10 would have succeeded without him. It is quite fitting that he was the only team member who was honored individually in the welcome talk.
He has contributed to every aspect of the conference, but I especially want to single out his dealings with the various components of Columbia University, notably the Columbia conference housing office, the facilities and public safety departments, the central IT department (CUIT), and the Computing Research Facility (CRF) of the Computer Science department. There have been an amazing number of contingencies to discuss and obstacles to overcome, and he has put in roughly 26 hours each day to accomplish that. Thanks again, Richard! - Jimmy Kaplowitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Debconf-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-announce
