Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-06-05 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/05/30 16:26, Jonathan Carter wrote: > highvoltage presents™... 10 Tips for a great DebConf... I forgot to mention... Be sure to enter your travel dates on: https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/19/TravelCoordination - it's nice to know who arrives / leaves about the same time as you do, and

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-06-04 Thread Felipe Verçosa de Queiroz
Hello everyone (: It will be my first time on debconf. I'm super willing to help. I was looking for tasks, but just saw that the page cannot be found. https://debconf19.debconf.org/volunteers/tasks/

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 05:23:24PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Judit Foglszinger dijo [Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:07:33PM +0700]: > > An even if you get trough by cheating in Mao, > > possibilities are high, you get rejected by the Mao commitee :) > > Remind me to penalize you next time we play.

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-06-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Judit Foglszinger dijo [Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:07:33PM +0700]: > > What is "mao" > > > > :-O > > A card game. > The only way to win is not to play :) > > > Maybe slightly controversial, but learn to play Mao it will teach you > > some valuable skills in making it through the NM process. > > I

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:34:20AM -0300, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: >Hi All, > >We probably will have a lot of newcomers at DebConf 19, specially >brazilians. > >We need help from you, experienced attendee: what kind of >tips/warnings/suggestion you can give for newcomers about

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-31 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, On 30/05/2019 19:34, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2019 09:34:20 -0300, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > > One additional thought: > > Look after yourself / take care of yourself. > DebConf is so full of impressions, experiences, people, languages, > new and fun and

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 30 May 2019 09:34:20 -0300, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > We need help from you, experienced attendee: what kind of > tips/warnings/suggestion you can give for newcomers about DebConf? How > newcomers can enjoy DebConf? How they can make this DebConf a great > opportunity to

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-30 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> What is "mao" > > :-O A card game. The only way to win is not to play :) > Maybe slightly controversial, but learn to play Mao it will teach you > some valuable skills in making it through the NM process. I didn't play Mao in my process :'-( An even if you get trough by cheating in Mao,

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/05/30 14:34, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > We need help from you, experienced attendee: what kind of > tips/warnings/suggestion you can give for newcomers about DebConf? How > newcomers can enjoy DebConf? How they can make this DebConf a great > opportunity to join the community

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 08:50:58PM +0700, Judit Foglszinger wrote: > Hm, just throwing in random stuff, most of it is highly subjective :) wow, nice collection. also: very much matches my experiences and suggestions. maybe also: you are not weird if you don't like mao. and: you are not werid if

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-30 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> We need help from you, experienced attendee: what kind of > tips/warnings/suggestion you can give for newcomers about DebConf? How > newcomers can enjoy DebConf? How they can make this DebConf a great > opportunity to join the community and help Debian? Hm, just throwing in random stuff, most

Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-05-30 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi All, We probably will have a lot of newcomers at DebConf 19, specially brazilians. We need help from you, experienced attendee: what kind of tips/warnings/suggestion you can give for newcomers about DebConf? How newcomers can enjoy DebConf? How they can make this DebConf a great opportunity