Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship allocation team request (Question to penta admins)
Hi, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:20:09PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11721 March 1977, Ana Guerrero wrote: process. Committee process people in penta using the voting system and then have a meeting to talk about the results. Last year, he had two meetings, and some people did not have enough time and look on the debian's involvement of the people in the list. I am afraid this needs some penta hacking :-( This is doable, but yes, needs a little hacking. We do have per-people ratings, but currently they are only 2 fields made up entirely for speaker quality. (and one field called Remarks) Of course there is no reason why we cant just rename the two fields to mean something different. And if we can go with just those two fields there arent any code changes to be done, just a translation string update. a) is it possible doing what is mentioned above thru penta? See above. If we can limit ourselfs to two fields - *easy*. Just tell me how to name them. If we would need more - needs work. All those fields rated from 1 to 5 right? How about: Contributor: 1 - Seldomly 2 - Regular 3 - Active 4 - Very Active / Orga team 5 - Extra point for people organizing events/Talks/BOFs at debconf. Members are supposed to Requested amount: 1 Too much 2 A bit over fair 3 Fair 4 Between fair and travel help. 5 Just asking for some travel help (something like 30 % of the total?) For this field, committee members can use as guide what they think it is usual for travelling from every country and rate everybody following their criteria. Rewording welcome. b) is it possible at least adding the what do you do in debian? and why you request sponsorship? (*) field? that i mentioned in the first email? Then we just mail all the people and ask them to file those fields. Adding new text fields to the interface isnt all that hard. We have done it a lot of times already, in fact we do have our own schema within the database just for this stuff. The only question is - at this point in time, do we get people to fill out those fields before the meeting? With DebConf not being that far away, we cant afford long delays anymore. I think we should add the field, mail all people who asked travel sponsorship and ask them to fill the field and in any case, do not make this compulsory for getting sponsorship. I expect most the people file it and I volunteer to work on this and mail and prod nicely people who does not do this in 48h. I do not think we are asking too much here. This is far from perfect, but I think it is better that last year. This is a tricky and too much subjective issue. Ana ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question
Hi, On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: We need someone to be in charge of room allocation. This someone should receive ro...@debconf.org and should know how much stuff costs, to answer queries. They don't need to speak Spanish. Can someone volunteer for this? Right. During the who is responsible for what meeting we came up with Lodging and Dining - aint that the same? http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/Teams#Lodging_and_Dining In that case it would be Cesar and Anto. I did this for DC5, DC6 and DC8, I can provide advise, but I don't want to do it again, specially taking into account that I won't be there during the conference. /me nods. Last year, we charged the same amount for 6, 7 and 8 nights. Why? To raise more money? Last year we had a Room Preference box... Why Isn't it there anymore? Good question :-/ regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] lightning talks with or without id?
Hi, On Montag, 20. April 2009, Noèl Köthe wrote: IMHO the one ID version has the advantage to be very flexible in organising the talks and when there are changes and/or removals people can to it themselve without any single point of failure.;) Yeah, I think so too and I think that benefit (easier scheduling (and display in the timetable) of the lightning talk event) is worthwhile. Also I think the lightnig talk organizer should decide which lightning talks to accept, prepare the speakers, etc. That all goes better with one event. Thus I'll create a lightning talk event now - though I'd prefer not to be the actual moderator at DebConf9 - any takers? On Montag, 20. April 2009, Simon Richter wrote: IMO it makes sense to have small videos for the lightning talks. If the videoteam has the capacity to do them, we can always create IDs later on and release them as different talks. So I dont think the single event approach is a blocker to this. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: We need someone to be in charge of room allocation. This someone should receive ro...@debconf.org and should know how much stuff costs, to answer queries. They don't need to speak Spanish. Can someone volunteer for this? During the who is responsible for what meeting we came up with Lodging and Dining - aint that the same? In that case it would be Cesar and Anto. The room allocation can be done by ANYONE. Cesar and Anto already have a lot of responsibilities. Whoever does room allocation needs to have the info from Cesar and Anto, but then they can work on. Last year, we charged the same amount for 6, 7 and 8 nights. Why? To raise more money? Not really, no. To make things simpler for everybody. Simplicity helps everybody. Most people last year, came for 8 days, and we didn't charge them extra for the extra day, so neither did we discount one day for those that stayed 6 days. For this year, I think we should do the same, people staying for 6, 7 or 8 nights count as staying one week, and thus pay € 300. People staying less or more then pay a different price that needs to be calculated (we need real info on how much things cost). Also, if they want a single room, we should charge extra, but how much? All this info needs to come from Cesar and Anto. Not the room allocation itself. -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf9: Call For Papers
Hi, (moving this to the -team list, as discussed) On Dienstag, 14. April 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I added a talk about NAS devices... I'm confused between abstract and description. I submitted a pretty long abstract, so I don't think a description is necessary... but if you want me to add more, please let me know. I dont really know, I usually put the first paragraph of the description in the abstract, but Martin said that wouldnt work for him.. So where are abstract and description used? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] where on the website to acknowledge+thank for ffis e.V.s contribution
Hi, ffis e.V. will be our legal entity for DebConf9 and to thank them and show our appreciation we agreed in the last team meeting to put their logo on our website. We just forget to decide where exactly, after agreeing that it doesnt fit with the other regular sponsors.. :-/ So looking at http://debconf9.debconf.org/ I can see two options: - on the left, below or above permanent sponsors - on the right, below the regular sponsors (below the lowest level, I'd say) In both cases I'd suggest a headline like legal help (in the same style as permanent sponsor or silver sponsor). legal help doesnt quite cut it - suggestions for a better one anyone? Once we have agreement on this, I'll place the logo. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question
On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, Ana Guerrero wrote: Right, somebody answering the traditional ro...@debconf.org alias. Anybody up for this job? At the moment mails to that address go to /dev/null? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Accessibility checklist wikipage
Hi, I've just finished a first draft of a checklist itended to help the orga team with accessibility issues for this and future DCs. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/AccessibilityChecklist Could Hector Oron and other people from local team please start filling it, giving suggestions, fixing things etc? Some tech review from Otavio would be great too. Actually any help is very welcome once my english is not good enough to format a document like that by myself. Also, people in charge of accessibility in DC9, please help me migrating the already existing content from Accessibility to AccessibilityChecklist wikipage. Regards, -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz http://tiagovaz.org 0xA504FECA - http://pgp.mit.edu signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question
Last year we had a Room Preference box... Why Isn't it there anymore? The room_preference was (and still is) dependent on reconfirmation. As we did not yet start Reconfirmation phase it is not displayed yet. -- bye, Joerg Md Sesse: I doubt that many people will switch network ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship allocation team request (Question to penta admins)
First of all, thanks for the penta hacking :-) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19:06AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I just added the field. It is on the Travel tab, as a textarea labeled What are you doing for Debian? Why do you request sponsorship? Now, if someone could prepare a mail text, I can provide the mail addresses (or directly send the mail) of all people asking for money, to be send Thur evening. What about: Hi, You have requested travel sponsorship for Debconf 9. The sponsorship committe will meet very soon to process all the requests, to help us with this task it is very important you log in penta as soon as possible and you fill a new field in the Travel tab that says What are you doing for Debian? Why do you request sponsorship?. We will keep this information confidential. Also, if you already arranged your travel plans and you need less money that initially asked, please update the amount. Thanks! If you want to send the emails fine, if not, I can do it tomorrow in the morning. Your script of mass mailings is in the svn since a couple of years ago :) By the way, is it herb@ working? It would be interesting as Reply-to: email address for those mails. Ana ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
