Re: [Debconf-discuss] MiniDebConf in April/May 2018 in Hamburg

2017-08-30 Thread David Bremner
Holger Levsen writes: > > As for dates, my prefered venue has four options, please comment on their > suitability and other clashing events: > > - April 4th-8th 2018 > - April 18th-22nd 2018 > - May 2nd-6th 2018 > - or May 16th-20th 2018 > For what it's worth (and

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG Keysigning "BoF"

2017-08-10 Thread David Bremner
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Chris Boot dijo [Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:57:18AM -0400]: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm pondering scheduling a "BoF" for doing some key signing, as it's >> sometimes hard to randomly approach people and ask for signatures—at >> least I find it difficult. > > So,

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Arriving at RVC

2017-08-05 Thread David Bremner
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > Hi! > > I will be arriving at YUL at 18:50 this evening, I’m currently waiting for my > next flight in Iceland. > > Since frontdesk will be closing at 18:00, should I go to RVC directly? >Will someone be there to hand out the

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Travel Reimbursement Instructions

2016-08-08 Thread David Bremner
Yaa Dufie writes: > Hi, > Been a month and haven't received anything concerning reimbursement and > time is due to pay back loan taken. > SPI (and FFIS for those who submitted there) have confirmed receipt of the reimbursement requests and they are working on them.

[Debconf-discuss] [David Bremner] Re: debian emacs stroll

2016-06-29 Thread David Bremner
hint, don't reply to debconf-disc...@debian.org, like I did. --- Begin Message --- David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > Sean suggested having some kind of emacs virtual sprint involving those > at DebCamp and those not. I've created a skeletal page at > > https

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Late Registeration

2016-05-24 Thread David Bremner
"Ebrahim A. Senejani" writes: > My name is Ebrahim A. Senejani from Iran and working with Linux from 2002 > and active in Iran Community (Arak Lug, SchooLinux and Tehran Lug) and > educate Linux based on Ubuntu and Debian to many students and their > teachers and some of my

Re: [Debconf-discuss] last session of emacs addon packaging sprint.

2015-08-21 Thread David Bremner
Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: On Friday 21 August 2015 12:00:50 David Bremner wrote: We'll meet in Madrid room at 16:00 to try and get down in a wiki all the of the main points we discussed this week, and discuss next steps. I assume David might have liked to use the word tomorrow

[Debconf-discuss] last session of emacs addon packaging sprint.

2015-08-21 Thread David Bremner
We'll meet in Madrid room at 16:00 to try and get down in a wiki all the of the main points we discussed this week, and discuss next steps. d ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf15 Emacs packaging sprint.

2015-08-18 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner da...@tethera.net writes: We have booked the Athen room from 10-12 for the debian emacs addons packaging sprint. Depending on the morning talks I'll be there for an hour or so out of this time. If you're interested in the state of emacs addons in Debian, or in some particular

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Reimbursements for DebConf 15

2015-08-18 Thread David Bremner
Sandeep Sukhani sandeep.d.sukh...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Can you please let me know whether GSoC students who have got sponsorship, have to follow same procedure for reimbursement? Yes, but please hurry, we're only at the front desk for 30 minutes longer. d

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Reimbursements for DebConf 15

2015-08-18 Thread David Bremner
Sven Bartscher sven.bartsc...@weltraumschlangen.de writes: Some questions about fields on the form: - What's supposed to go into Contact? The form already contains my e-mail and name. mailing address. - Is there something supposed to go in the reason field besides something like

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Reimbursements for DebConf 15

2015-08-17 Thread David Bremner
Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.pro writes: What is the procedure for people who are not here or not available at either the time for submitting forms (Tuesday) or collecting cash (Thursday)? Must people in either of those situations use the SPI procedure? You'll have to use some post-DebConf

[Debconf-discuss] DebConf15 Emacs packaging sprint.

2015-08-16 Thread David Bremner
We have booked the Athen room from 10-12 for the debian emacs addons packaging sprint. Depending on the morning talks I'll be there for an hour or so out of this time. If you're interested in the state of emacs addons in Debian, or in some particular package, feel free to drop by. David

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] DebConf15 Schedule Published and Additional Featured Speakers Announced

2015-07-31 Thread David Bremner
Sullaiman Musah Lampo musahlamposullai...@yahoo.com writes: Hello, Good morning I still did not received any information my the invitation letter I need for the visa to be able to attend the program,what is

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Waiting for sponsorship decision

2015-06-04 Thread David Bremner
Amey Abhyankar sco1...@gmail.com writes: I am waiting for outcome of 'travel sponsorship' decision by bursaries team. :-) Debconf15 web-site says Decision is expected in month of May June month has begun. ^_^ Flight tickets are going up that's why I am worried. :-/ Bursaries sent you

[Debconf-discuss] currency exchange

2014-08-30 Thread David Bremner
I have some japanese yen, canadian dollars, and US dollars that I'd be happy to exchange for euros at some fair rate. Ping me on IRC if you're interested. I guess I'd also exchange canadian dollars and/or japanese yen for US dollars, if it helped somebody out. d pgpTKhwvy9vmu.pgp Description:

[Debconf-discuss] Notmuch BoF session at Debconf 14, portland

2014-08-24 Thread David Bremner
After some *cough* confusion, the notmuch BoF will be at 1530 on Monday August 25 in SMSU Room 238 of Portland State University. I haven't thought about a long agenda, but I could go quickly through my standard 15ish minute talk (which many of you might have seen on video from last year), and

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Visiting CERN

2013-07-23 Thread David Bremner
Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Hello, I'm thinking to organize a private (non-official) visit to CERN. But I'm late on organizing stuffs. In next few days there will be the deadline to book the group visit during DebConf period. So to organize the standard visit I need at

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Visit ancient footprints of Acahualinca

2012-07-12 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:17:47 +0200, Jana Pirat janapi...@gmx.de wrote: if u would like to join and share taxi u are welcome. the start time will be tomorow 10 am from hotel alternative time could be at 1pm from uca (if u want to attend talks in the morning) Hi Jana Cheryl Petreman, my

[Debconf-discuss] the library is open

2012-07-08 Thread David Bremner
There is now a box labelled Biblioteca underneath the coffee mugs in Hacklab 1. I put an English mystery novel in it that I won't carry home. Feel free to add / remove books. Also feel free to add the accent I feel must be somewhere in Biblioteca. The box might move if that turns out to be an

[Debconf-discuss] OpenPGP SmartCard group buy.

2012-05-16 Thread David Bremner
Luca Capello has kindly agreed to put in a group order to kernel concepts for smartcards and readers, and to bring the loot to debconf in Managua. I started a table on https://wiki.debian.org/Smartcards/OpenPGP/Buying of who want's what. You can find links to the prices on that page The

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-11 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:38:26 +0100, Francesca Ciceri madame...@debian.org wrote: We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached during past DebConfs. After talking about the conversion for

[Debconf-discuss] Travel to Sarajevo on Sunday

2011-07-29 Thread David Bremner
Hi; I have reason to believe that several people are travelling to Sarajevo after debconf, but so far on the wiki I see Guido on Saturday and Cheryl and I on Sunday. I'd be happy to (a) know when the buses leave (autoprevoz.org defeated my first attempt), and (b) coordinate the trip down and

Re: [Debconf-discuss] ZAG-BNX buses taxis

2011-07-21 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:10:16 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu wrote: I looked around some more for minibuses; by way of example, I asked for transfer of 8 people (corresponding to ZAG arrivals on 24 from 13:05 to 14:05); I'm still waiting for some quotes, but I already got one for

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Visiting Sarajevo, Day trip or pre/post conference visit to Sarajevo?

2011-07-07 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:34:20 +0200, vedran valaj...@gmail.com wrote: Right now i assume that 30 people would enough to organize such a trip. Price for transport and food would be 15€ for each person. Detail plan of visit will be on wiki. Also, there is option to make smaller group with 15 or

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Proceedings from the 11th Debian Developers Conference are out!

2010-08-17 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:55:57 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: could you please look at http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/proceedings.pdf and state either it is an improvement (then I push) or got only worse (then I guess should not ) ;-) Push! d

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Proceedings from the 11th Debian Developers Conference are out!

2010-08-16 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:43:01 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: tth [is dead] so what should be used? tex4ht is big, bewildering and slow, but generates nice output. also, if we go with PDF without .ps/.dvi/... then why not to use pdflatex, then there would be no

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Proceedings from the 11th Debian Developers Conference are out!

2010-08-16 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:00:34 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: how was abstracts.tex generated? I just wonder if there is an easy way to complement it with those urls pointing to penta? Originally it was generated via python ./process-abstracts.py

[Debconf-discuss] PhD student in parallel/distributed computing sought

2010-08-06 Thread David Bremner
Systems Programming - Batch systems and cluster computing Candidates are encouraged to contact David Bremner brem...@unb.ca with a resumé and unofficial post-secondary transcripts. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-discuss] BoF best practices (Notmuch, Math Software)

2010-08-01 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:37:05 -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: That is quite simple to achieve. It just takes the BoF coordinator to prepare some [**working questions**](http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20080712.235543.c0310e7e.en.html) and/or *detailed* discussion

Re: [Debconf-discuss] BoF best practices (Notmuch, Math Software)

2010-08-01 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:37:10 -0400, Jameson Rollins jroll...@finestructure.net wrote: Hey, David. I think the notmuch BoF is official, right? It's certainly on the schedule as such. And I thought I already saw a wiki page for it, but maybe I was mistaken (since I can't find it at the

[Debconf-discuss] possible smart card group buy?

2010-07-09 Thread David Bremner
Is there any interest in a gpg smartcard group buy? http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Debconf10/Unofficial/SmartCardBuy I think it doesn't make too much sense for me to order things to Canada from Germany, and then take them across the border to the US; for one thing, it is very last-minute, and

Re: [Debconf-discuss] possible smart card group buy?

2010-07-09 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:34:12 -0400, micah anderson mi...@riseup.net wrote: If people are looking into getting the OpenPGP smartcard (v2), you might want to also look at the Cryptostick[0] which is an opensource project that has all the features of the OpenPGPv2 card and more. They do look nice

[Debconf-discuss] parking for the week of debconf

2010-06-08 Thread David Bremner
Hi All; I'm planning on driving down to Debconf from the east coast of Canada. I need somewhere to park the rental car for a week. I don't need access to the car during the week, but I would like it back at the end of debconf. I can pay something ($100 for the week?) for parking, but I don't