Discount at little store next to hotel front desk

2023-09-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi all, Just to inform you that the guy who owns the little store next to the hotel front desk asked us to let everyone know that he is offering a 15% discount on products in his store to conference attendees. (I have no skin in this game, but thought it was a nice offer that I'm happy to pass

Re: When can we get video archive for dc23?

2023-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi all, Sorry about the late reply; I managed to bounce myself off of the mailinglist and did not notice until today. (I already told Hideki what's up, but this deserves an on-list reply) On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 03:00:06PM +0530, Hideki Yamane wrote: > I'll write short article about DC23 for

Re: tagging non-english talks

2020-09-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Adam, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:31:00PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > I've just tried to look through videos of talks I've missed, and, when > browsing the index, I have trouble telling the language the talk is in. > It was already noticeable on the Schedule, but there you could spot a

Re: Singers wanted.

2020-08-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 02:38:13AM +1000, Ashley J Gittins wrote: > Curious... I'm interested (I'm a tenor), Bass here. [...] > However we're in Australia, so latency to .de is ~300ms, no good for live > collaboration unless you're considering something to work around that (pre > recorded, or

Re: How to organize a Mini-DebConf

2018-11-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:35:55PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all, > > during the DebConf in Taiwan I met and became friends with the founders > of FOSSASIA, and we thought about organizing a Mini-DebConf in Singapore > next year. > > Since it is the first time for us, we have no idea

Re: Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 08:30:27PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I was afraid of the accents and fast-talk of some people while other > people whose first language was not English were easier to understand > as they took time to organize and deliver their questions not just in > Q but also

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:40:38PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Samuel, > > > > About embarrassing behaviour from the audience: First, this barely ever > > > happens, [...] > > > > I completely agree this all of this, and that's what I explain to our > > PhD students. But them actually

Re: Suggestions, questions and concerns about DebConf19?

2018-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:44:40AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 08/11/2018 11:23 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> What happens in case of an emergency then? Aren't organizers of large > >> events of this type required by law to keep lists of real name? > > > > Why would they? > >

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 03:23:24PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/29/2018 07:52 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > > (trying to avoid direct use of Uber due to the proprietary software > > required) > > You have more a problem with the fact that UBER uses proprietary software > than the