all is ok in the next meeting ( 2009-02-23 at 20 UTC ) add more detail I need an actual sponsorpack, for the next week ??, possible?
only one thing [..]The good news is, that in July there will be 15 people from the Extremadura administration working full time on DebConf. As I understood it, from July 1st and not July 15th. [...] is not secure yet, am waiting for a meeting with the regional government next week salud Holger Levsen escribió: > Hi, > > unfortunatly I forgot to send this mail directly after FOSDEM, and now I > probably forgot something to tell you. Hopefully Anto or Cesar can jump in > and hopefully my summary is right in the first place. > > A meeting between Anto and the other DebConf volunteers didnt take place at > FOSDEM, as we planned to have it on Sunday and then Anto got sick on Sunday > and had to stay in his hotel. So it was only me who talked to Anto on Friday > evening and Saturday. > > The bad news (I like to start with the bad things) is that the working > localteam at the moment indeed is quite small, mostly Cesar and Anto. (And > both are quite busy atm.) > > The good news is, that in July there will be 15 people from the Extremadura > administration working full time on DebConf. As I understood it, from July > 1st and not July 15th. > > (I'm fully confident they are aware what is coming to them. A big, worldwide > conference with ~400 (or more) guests. They might not know all the details > and will certainly assume some wrongly, so we need to make sure we > communicate our needs well. > But I dont see a general problem here, the Extremaduran adminstration yearly > also co-organizes the Free Software World Conference (which seems to have > been renamed to OpenSourceWC..) with >5000 attendees and they also sponsored > >> 15 Debian development meetings in 2006-2008 and spend _lots_ of money on >> > that. (A 6 figure Euro amount each year, probably.) > So I'm certain they will not fuck it up, if we dont (let them) ;) > ) > > > Another good news was, that a third dormitory was found and rented. > (Anto should probably add more detail here.) > > > So what does that mean? IMHO not soo much, unlike debconf7+8, there will be > more preparations done by non-localteam people, like CallForPapers, Website > content and other stuff. Which is basically like debconf5+6 were done. (But > unlike DebConf6 we will have a bunch of reliable local people during the > conf!) > > And I think it would be good to try to recruit some people from other parts > of > Spain (who intend to go to DebConf ;) to take away some load from Cesar and > Anto. (For example, the contact & the contracts with the venues will be in > spanish, so I think it would best if the person(s) doing the > bookkeeping/finances speak spanish (and do the bookkeeping in english of > course). Another thing is organising the meals, and there is more. > So I would still suggest to setup a localteam mailinglist and IRC channel, > also so that we are able to point localteam volunteers there. > #debconf9-localteam? probably better #debconf9-voluntarios (es_HL warning ;) > to reflect that its a spanish language channel, else we could also just use > #debconf-team.. > > > And don't forget to attend the dc9 meeting on monday, 2009-02-23 at 20 UTC, > agenda: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/Meetings > > > regards, > Holger > > P.S.: As I never came around to blog this: there is a _very_ nice train > connection from Madrid to Caceres, definitly faster and more comfortable and > scenic than the bus ride some people will remember from those developer > meetings. IIRC it was something like a bit below 30 Euros one way and 2 or > 3h. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
