Hi! We are having a meeting today, at 20:00 UTC. These are the minutes from last week's meeting (with updated information where appropiate).
* Debian Day status This is the big missing thing for DebConf8. We currently have no place. The possible place that we had last week said that it's impossible to do it that day. We have a backup plan that we need to study now. And we are already asking other places for quotations. * Talks/events schedule status (including 'keynote' question) Scheduling in Penta is basically finished, although not yet available to the public. Regarding keynotes, we agreed that keynotes are talks that are only "special" in 3 facts: 1) they are called keynotes 2) they are scheduled at the beginning of the day 3) they have no other event scheduled at the same time. We have 4 keynotes for DebConf8, and we won't have more unless the talks committee says otherwise. * Projector/screen/PA equipment hire We have an old quote (February) regarding this. We should get it updated, and have a contact to get a second one, but we don't have it yet. * Wired/wireless network planning status There was a meeting 10 days ago about network planning with debconf-admin and local-team. After that meeting, it was decided to have 2 managed Gigabit switches in the backbone. Common switches and aps for the rest of the network. The core switches were bought and are already installed, they will be later re-sold. The others we are going to be rented at a very low price. Tincho and Traveler_ went MDQ the past weekend to oversee the ISP installation and arrange cabling with the hotel. They also took with them most of the servers, so that almost everything is already at the venue. Including homer, lisa and tutatis being already online. * Room allocation status The big thing is already done and sent to the hotel. After that, some people were added and some others de-confirmed, but this will probably be sent to the hotel as a "diff" next week. We have a few less people-nights than what the hotel is expecting. Currently trying to negotiate what we can get out of that money. * Proceedings Ganneff was supposed to send a "Last ping - LAST Deadline is XXX" mail to people who should submit papers. This was just done, with deadline being this Wednesday. Holger mailed zack asking about the proceedings arrangement. This was done, the summed up answer is that very few papers are there. Hopefully we will get a few more and still be able to print the proceedings on time. -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
