Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Gunnar Wolf [2014-09-20 20:29 -0500]: - Taking care to print and keep up to date the signs stating what is going on at each room (were the signs this year needed? Were they enough?) I'd just like to say that I found these very useful. It's much easier to look at the door than a website

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:11AM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Gunnar Wolf [2014-09-20 20:29 -0500]: - Taking care to print and keep up to date the signs stating what is going on at each room (were the signs this year needed? Were they enough?) I'd just like to say that I found these very

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Wookey dijo [Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:11AM +0100]: I'd just like to say that I found these very useful. It's much easier to look at the door than a website or the 'what's next' monitor. So they are not essential, but I did appreciate that someone could be bothered to print them all and stick

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:11AM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Gunnar Wolf [2014-09-20 20:29 -0500]: - Taking care to print and keep up to date the signs stating what is going on at each room (were the signs this year needed? Were they enough?) I'd just like to say that I found these

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org writes: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 07:53:56PM -0400]: A dedicated irc proxy volunteer is probably what would be wanted. It is not really a video team task. The talkmeister ought to be watching the clock and passing the microphone, not looking

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 07:53:56PM -0400]: A dedicated irc proxy volunteer is probably what would be wanted. It is not really a video team task. The talkmeister ought to be watching the clock and passing the microphone, not looking at irc. (incidentally, there's no

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-19 Thread Philip Hands
Richard Hartmann richih.mailingl...@gmail.com writes: Could the video volunteer peek into a dedicated question channel during the qa part? This video volunteer couldn't -- dyslexia means that if I'm IRCing then I'm not doing anything else (so not directing the video or mixing the sound or

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 19. September 2014, Richard Hartmann wrote: Other ideas: * A good seat in the front with a sign if you sit here, you're the IRC volunteer * The talk-meister designates an IRC volunteer for each talk. those two. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-19 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
* Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org [2014-09-19 11:09:24 +0200]: Hi, On Freitag, 19. September 2014, Richard Hartmann wrote: Other ideas: * A good seat in the front with a sign if you sit here, you're the IRC volunteer * The talk-meister designates an IRC volunteer for each talk.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nicolas Dandrimont ol...@debian.org [2014-09-19 16:05 +0200]: For a few years (3-4?) CCC has had the signal angel role which is exactly this: sit in front, close to a microphone, read IRC, and relay questions. At LISA, sponsored attendees had to sign up and submit summaries for 2

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-19 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:29:46AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Richard Hartmann richih.mailingl...@gmail.com writes: Could the video volunteer peek into a dedicated question channel during the qa part? This video volunteer couldn't -- dyslexia means that if I'm IRCing then I'm not doing

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org [2014-09-18 10:50 +0200]: Messages from IRC could be translated to audio using one of the various text-to-speech engines we have in Debian. This would probably be more laughable than useful, don't you think? … bad choice of word, laughable.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-18 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:53:22AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Holger wrote: I also had the impression there was less relaying of questions from IRC this year, no idea if thats true and if so, why. Likewise and I think this is a shame. I think this is something that people simply forget

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-18 Thread Wookey
+++ martin f krafft [2014-09-18 10:50 +0200]: Make some telepresence hardware running Debian for remote attendees? Fundamentally, this is a great idea, but what a job… I was on the technical team of http://tokyolectures.org/, which did telepresence across seven universities in 2004. We had

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
Could the video volunteer peek into a dedicated question channel during the qa part? Richard Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:53:22AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Holger wrote: I also had the impression there was less relaying of questions from IRC this year, no idea if thats true and if so, why. Likewise and I think this is a shame. Ditto; I attended the conference, but due to a work

[Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
Holger wrote: I also had the impression there was less relaying of questions from IRC this year, no idea if thats true and if so, why. Likewise and I think this is a shame. I think this is something that people simply forget to do (myself included) or find it hard to do since people