Re: [Debconf-team] DebCamp and DebConf dates

2015-02-08 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
From budget, and past experiences, arrival days will be Friday and Saturday. Should we start talks on Saturday late afternoon (plenaries: Welcome and one/two additional) or as usual, Sunday morning? Or on Monday? Is open weekend a parallel sessions for public (parallel to DebConf?) Is

Re: [Debconf-team] RFC: Call for sprints

2015-02-08 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 07:55:45AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org [2015-02-07 23:17 +0100]: The draft below is the tentative call for sprints to be send in the next days. Any comments? https://titanpad.com/dc15-cfsprints Could you please keep

Re: [Debconf-team] Teams: let's hear your budget needs for DC15

2015-02-07 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:29:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@ekaia.org [2015-02-06 15:41 +0100]: From the content team: budget for inviting speakers. I have found in the budget.ods interesting speakers that I assume is for this (and probably should

[Debconf-team] busaries question about speakers

2015-02-07 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, Quick question: should people with accepted talks in the official track assume they will get sponsored food+room if they ask for it? Ana ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

[Debconf-team] moving debconf-discuss@ to lists.d.o?

2015-02-07 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi everybody, What about to move debconf-discuss to lists.d.o NOW? No email has been sent to debconf-discuss@ in the current year. We could ask the listmasters to open the new list in lists.d.o and start using that list now we're starting a new cycle (before debconf registration opens where

[Debconf-team] RFC: Call for sprints

2015-02-07 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, The draft below is the tentative call for sprints to be send in the next days. Any comments? --- Call For Sprints during DebCamp and DebConf Would you team like to have a sprint but organizing it is too much

Re: [Debconf-team] Teams: let's hear your budget needs for DC15

2015-02-06 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:33:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Dear teams, and I guess specifically you leaders… We are now approaching the time when the budget for DC15 needs to be prepared and approved. Therefore, it would be really useful if you could spend a bit of time thinking about

[Debconf-team] procedure to suggest guest speakers

2015-01-19 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi folks, Some of you asked how to invite guest speakers and some even sent quick emails suggesting speakers. We have updated the wiki with the procedure to suggest guest speakers: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Teams/Content/InvitingSpeakers Please, do not read this email as a call to suggest

Re: [Debconf-team] Q for Cape Town bid: attendees safety outside the venue

2014-12-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 09:26:08AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Moray Allan dijo [Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 05:34:40PM +0100]: Still, we haven't completely avoided problems; I remember a few people having bad experiences in Managua, for example, mostly when they were obviously carrying expensive

Re: [Debconf-team] Rough timeline idea for DC15 and the CfP

2014-12-04 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:05:11AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: Heya, For DebConf15, we have been trying to push ahead the schedule a bit if possible. Our main aim with starting fundraising early was so that we could have a shot at confirming travel sponsorships with enough time for people

Re: [Debconf-team] results from the cfp from the content team

2014-12-04 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:28:20PM +, jathan wrote: Hello. An apology for not having seen that Ana email and failing to respond in time. Sin problemas Jonathan. Welcome to the content team! Ana ___ Debconf-team mailing list

[Debconf-team] results from the cfp from the content team

2014-12-02 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
(gwolf) - Ana Guerrero López (ana) Everybody will continue except Daniel. From the chair's canvassing email and my call for help, I got the following people interested: - Michael Banck (mbanck) - Ana Carolina Comandulli (caroll) - Margarita Manterola (marga) - Martin F. Krafft (madduck) - Maximiliano

[Debconf-team] The talks team is recruiting

2014-11-21 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi everybody, The talks team is recruiting! This is a good team for all those people who are lurking and do not know how to start helping. It's better if you have attended to Debconf already, but it is not a hard condition. Please, send an email before the end of November if you would like to

Re: [Debconf-team] The *content* team is recruiting

2014-11-21 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi everybody (again) The content team is recruiting! This is a good team for all those people who are lurking and do not know how to start helping. It's better if you have attended to Debconf already, but it is not a hard condition. Please, send an email before the end of November if you would

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for bits.debian.org about sponsors for DC15

2014-11-08 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 01:34:29PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: Hi On 8 de noviembre de 2014 07:48:10 GMT+01:00, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach Laura Arjona Reina larj...@larjona.net [2014-11-07 15:14 +0100]: The updated proposal is in the same place:

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf 15 opening weekened

2014-11-08 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:40:52PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org wrote: In the website in important dates, it says that the 15-16 August is the opening weekened (geared to the public) and those appears also

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf subteams list

2014-10-26 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:35:11AM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: During the workgroup sessions at DebConf, among other points we agreed that we would form clearer subteams for related tasks, and clarify subteam responsibilities. These subteams would group together related tasks, while

[Debconf-team] debconf 15 opening weekened

2014-10-21 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, In the website in important dates, it says that the 15-16 August is the opening weekened (geared to the public) and those appears also as DebConf days. It seems like this has been decided already. Before jumping to conclusions, could you please explain what does this exactly mean? Ana

[Debconf-team] Report from the talks team

2014-09-16 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi everybody, This is a quick summary of how the talks team worked this year. This mail only describes the talk selection process and scheduling. The scheduling of the ad-hoc talks was done by Michael Banck so we'll let him comment on this regard. Also, some personal comments from members of the

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf governance discussion

2014-08-19 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:56:07AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 02:32:30PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: lots of snipping The above was a long paragraph to state that I currently prefer madduck's proposal to yours. Agreed. Taking our comments when we're

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf governance discussion

2014-08-19 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:36:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 05:42:26PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:56:07AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 02:32:30PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: lots of snipping

Re: [Debconf-team] Introduction for newcomers talk?

2014-08-18 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi! On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 09:14:41PM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 03:33:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: I don't think that's at all what was said. The talks team are not, TTBOMK, the ones giving the opening talk, and this feedback that this is something that

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget woes

2014-08-17 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 08:33:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: - Water bottles. Sturdy, reusable aluminum water bottles - branded with the Debian logo, of course! - would be a nice perk to send people home with, that would be useful during the conference too. (And they would

[Debconf-team] renting extra room for ad-hoc talks.

2014-08-07 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi everybody, The venue has some small rooms we are not renting and our budget is looking healthy, so we can discuss the possibility of renting an extra small room (10-20 seats) for ad-hoc events some of the days. Currently the only time available for ad-hoc talks is: - After dinner, from

Re: [Debconf-team] confirmation of room changes; details on talk room capacities

2014-08-05 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 02:19:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Do we (and I guess in particular, the talks team) believe that these capacities will meet our needs? If not, please let me know what you believe we should do. Replying to this question with more detail now. For

Re: [Debconf-team] confirmation of room changes; details on talk room capacities

2014-08-03 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 10:06:57PM +, René Mayorga wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 02:19:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi all, Hi, So the two questions are: - Do we need the additional seating capacity in

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Final list of accepted talks

2014-07-22 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:29:43AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Hi Ana, Sounds like good material for a press release. Should I prepare one? I'll do a blog post when the schedule is ready. Ana On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 08:45:08PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: Below is the list

[Debconf-team] Final list of accepted talks

2014-07-19 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi everybody, Below is the list of accepted talks that will be scheduled in the next days. Every talk has a slot of 45m except the Live demos event and the Looking back on a Debian Summer of Code talk (it contains 4 presentations by GSoC students). Everybody should have gotten an email (in

Re: [Debconf-team] Final schedule structure - review

2014-07-09 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:06:51AM +, René Mayorga wrote: [2] http://people.debian.org/~rmayorga/schedule-dc14.png If you look at the above image, you'll see we can schedule 55 official talks and 26 ad-hoc talks. We have gotten about 100 talks proposals which mean we will need to reject many

[Debconf-team] Possible talks slots with the chosen schedule

2014-06-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, Based on the schedule accepted in yesterday's meeting [0]. I have done a rought allocation of slots to see how much talks we can allocate. Every talk-slot is of 1h. I'm assuming we can have 3 slots in the morning and slot in the evening. When we don't have a single room[1], I'm assuming

Re: [Debconf-team] Possible talks slots with the chosen schedule

2014-06-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:51:39PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org [2014-06-25 16:23 +0200]: Based on the schedule accepted in yesterday's meeting [0]. I have done a rought allocation of slots to see how much talks we can allocate. Hey Ana

Re: [Debconf-team] Possible talks slots with the chosen schedule

2014-06-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:12:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: There are 34 slots for talks in the timetable I prepared, not including the opening/closing ceremonies and the DPL talk, which I've fixed for some reason, and including slots after dinner on those days vorlon set would be okay.

Re: [Debconf-team] Possible talks slots with the chosen schedule

2014-06-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:51:39PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org [2014-06-25 16:23 +0200]: Based on the schedule accepted in yesterday's meeting [0]. I have done a rought allocation of slots to see how much talks we can allocate. http

Re: [Debconf-team] Possible talks slots with the chosen schedule

2014-06-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:06:47PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:51:39PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org [2014-06-25 16:23 +0200]: Based on the schedule accepted in yesterday's meeting [0]. I have done a rought

Re: [Debconf-team] Possible talks slots with the chosen schedule

2014-06-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi again, On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:34:00PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: You will see that the next event doesn't start until 15 minutes later, so this is accounted for. Sure, remove the evening talk slots if it makes you happy. But you cannot move them to right after brunch where there's

Re: [Debconf-team] [rmayo...@debian.org: Summit - Propose a event form fields]

2014-05-26 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 09:42:38AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Forwarding to the list for general consumption. From: René Mayorga rmayo...@debian.org To: vor...@debian.org Cc: ta...@debconf.org Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:02:42 -0600 Hi Steve, As we promise to forward you the

Re: [Debconf-team] Updated budget for DC14

2014-03-28 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:17:41AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:45:10PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:35:59PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: Without taking any position in the recent debate over the use of Debian money

Re: [Debconf-team] Updated budget for DC14

2014-03-28 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 07:12:32AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2014-03-28 00:23 +0100]: Yes. I wonder about the respective merits of the daytrip vs the conference dinner too. But I'll leave that up to you (the DebConf team). The conference

Re: [Debconf-team] Updates regarding the Swedish bid

2014-03-04 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:49:06PM +0100, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: DC17 is not that far away really...or? =) DC16 is closer :) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Conference

2013-12-03 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 06:42:29PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I *think* we do not currently have any DDs in your country, but again, we are willing to work with committed user groups. Besides the famous millionaire who shall not be named, who anyway lives in the Isle of Man, I remember Stefano

Re: [Debconf-team] DC14: parallel activities for families with kids

2013-08-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:48:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org [2013.08.24.2110 +0200]: No, please. I don't understand why you're trying to stop this discussion. Because there is no point in talking about the past when the goal

[Debconf-team] Please create the mailinglist debconf-families

2013-08-25 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 05:13:41PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: - Taking this a bit further, I feel that a debconf-families mailing list where families can get to know each other before the conference and start planning playdates, child care, and other family friendly activities would likely be

Re: [Debconf-team] DC14: parallel activities for families with kids

2013-08-24 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:38:02PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: This would be simple, but it doesn't seem the most request of families (OTOH CH was special, with no real alternatives for families near the venue). Can we at least please

Re: [Debconf-team] DC14: parallel activities for families with kids

2013-08-24 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 07:48:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: may have been. I will now ask the list for private replies. No, please. I don't understand why you're trying to stop this discussion. Ana ___ Debconf-team mailing list

Re: [Debconf-team] Separate room for families

2013-04-17 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:26:19PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: But my main issue WRT hosting families is that... We don't yet know how full will DebConf be, or how Debian people will be distributed. Keep in mind we have relatively few such rooms - And, of course, we should try to prioritize

Re: [Debconf-team] Separate room for families

2013-04-17 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:16:38PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: On 17.04.2013 12:42, Ana Guerrero wrote: Out of curiosity, what do you understand for a family here? I have discovered recently that the definition of a family varies widely and for some, the concept of family must include

Re: [Debconf-team] Separate room for families

2013-04-17 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:19:12PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: Caveate: Everyone and every family is different, so please just consider this a data point. My opinion (as someone with a wife and 2 kids), feels that for those in a situation where a family with kids wants to travel together to CH

[Debconf-team] [DC14] Venezuelan team: questions after reading the bid

2013-03-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, I haven't read the first answers to other questions (I didn't want to get influenced) so sorry in advance for the overlap. * List of organizers The wikipage lists a bunch of people who would be organizing DebConf14. I know a few names there, but some of the people listed as Debian

[Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: questions after reading the bid

2013-03-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, I haven't read the first answers to other questions (I didn't want to get influenced) so sorry in advance for the overlap. * Airport / Transport Portland International Airport doesn't have too many international connections so some attendees might land in the USA via Seattle Airport or

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf Committee meeting (for DC14): Friday March 22, 17:00UTC

2013-03-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:43:33AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: - We should try to keep the meeting at a maximum of 1 hour. As it has happened in the past, if we feel we cannot reach a decision, we should suspend and call for another meeting in 1-2 weeks time, after some more on-list

Re: [Debconf-team] DC14 bids: bid teams

2013-03-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:42:40AM -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: Hi Moray, El 01/03/13 18:09, Moray Allan escribió: Both bid teams give a long list of team members on their wiki pages. Do the main team members live in the proposed city? If not, how far away are they? Are

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA

2013-03-18 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:28:52AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: We will find unacceptable lines with each of the proposals. But it is not the right time to get too much into the details on how and what offers to make - Lets first decide on the bids. Stating the visa problem is enough for now. We

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA

2013-03-18 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:16:22PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: [... a lot of stuff removed...] Could you please re-read my email? I said it had nothing to do with the on-going discussion w.r.t USA. I think Daniel got very sensible answers and he should realize now it is time to stop.

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA

2013-03-18 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:50:41PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Ignoring some stuff because you think they will be solved or workarounded later is not a good idea at the choosing bid stage as we have seen this year. I didn't understand from Gunnar's mail that he is ignoring the

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA

2013-03-18 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:20:32AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Ana Guerrero dijo [Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:11:57PM +0100]: My comment is meta to what Gunnar is saying: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:28:52AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: We will find unacceptable lines with each of the proposals

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 venue choice (was: [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA)

2013-03-18 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:45:22PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I'm not sure it's the right place, time and thread to further debate that subject, though. No, it is not. But shouldn't we try to avoid future problems? That's what I'm trying here. As you might have noticed I stopped

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA

2013-03-16 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: My own feeling: countries like the US and Australia shouldn't bother holding major events like DebConf ... The visas and border problems are not limited to US and Australia and what we have to check every year is we have the

Re: [Debconf-team] what do we think we can do better for dc13? example: random venue

2012-12-07 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:06:54PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mercredi, 5 décembre 2012 15.37:32, Ana Guerrero a écrit : I guess this wasn't very clear in my first email, but I'm also considering the hostel as the venue for talks, hacklabs etc in the spirit of having everything

Re: [Debconf-team] what do we think we can do better for dc13? example: random venue

2012-12-05 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:08:28PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Ana, hi all. Le samedi, 1 décembre 2012 17.38:05, Ana Guerrero a écrit : It has been said a few times that le camp have the same standars that a youth hostel, so I went to see how a swiss youth hostel looks like [1

Re: [Debconf-team] privacy for women at le camp

2012-12-04 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi! On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: Hi, could somebody please point to a wiki page (write first) that explains the shower/toilets/bedrooms plan for women at le camp? Is it possible to have mixed houses and still have different bedrooms, showers and

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf thoughts

2012-12-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:22:16AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: The discrimination part seems to me is a subjective opinion that is not shared by everyone. At least that is the impression I get from the discussions over the last weeks (please not that I've been following debconf-team for

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf thoughts

2012-12-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:22:24PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: * Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org [2012-12-03 11:43]: On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:22:16AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: I haven't heard that this is the case, what I read on the list is that there are buildings specifically

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf thoughts

2012-12-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 11:12:47AM +, Philip Hands wrote: Have you not met Paul Sladen? ? As I said long ago, Le Camp (when considered as a DebConf venue) is family hostile, and for the same reasons is comfort-loving-corporate hostile, and also for those other cases you mention.

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf thoughts

2012-12-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 01:42:43PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Especially given the overwhelming impact of the discrimination effects of _money_, which is an extremly great factor for any DebConf in Switzerland, I think Le Camp is a very good choice. We will be more equal there than in most

Re: [Debconf-team] what do we think we can do better for dc13? example: ruhrgebiet

2012-12-02 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi Thomas, On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:18:28PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: Ana Guerrero: It has been said a few times that le camp have the same standars that a youth hostel, so I went to see how a swiss youth hostel looks like [1] and what possibilities they offered. I evaluated quickly one

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf thoughts

2012-12-02 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 02:01:05PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: Hi, since quite a lot of mails have been writte about evolution of Debconf let me add my share. I've attended the debconfs in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2011. For me the all-time best was Porto Alegre in 2004. And that

[Debconf-team] what do we think we can do better for dc13? example: random venue

2012-12-01 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, I have shared this for IRC, but I'm told if it is not in the list it doesn't count. And also not everybody has the time to follow by IRC. It has been said a few times that le camp have the same standars that a youth hostel, so I went to see how a swiss youth hostel looks like [1] and what

Re: [Debconf-team] what do we think we can do better for dc13? example: random venue

2012-12-01 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 05:38:05PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: There is also an airport with regular flights to some cities for those who can afford going directly to the place. The airport doesn't have regular flights, but indeed, if you can afford it, you can flight there directly

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-30 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:22:26AM +, Moray Allan wrote: On 2012-11-30 22:25, Moray Allan wrote: Personally I find this a strong negative I have been asked on IRC to clarify my position/thinking: Personally I think Le Camp is a bad choice of venue. I am influenced in that by how

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-27 Thread Ana Guerrero
Answering this email because I have been named. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:39:51PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: My general comment is, that I have not seen any new arguments in the last seven days or so. (I also spoke with Ana on Sunday for more than an hour, and while I learned several

Re: [Debconf-team] Signing the contract with LeCamp

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:55:45PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote: If someone disagrees with this course of action, they should say it now. I do. I feel the meeting was forced and the concensus was not a real concensus. Some people were in the position: it is le camp or nothing and some people

[Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi everybody, I found a site with photos that together with the plans of le camp available at their website, allow to get a much better idea of what is being offered in terms of accommodation at Le camp. Le camp is the proposed venue for holding DebConf 13. The venue contains several building,

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:30:31PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Ana, many thanks for your nice research. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: ... http://www.lecamp.ch/visite.php?lang=# ... To my understanding, the accommodation on the remaining buildings

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
what you call here a FUD. Le lundi, 26 novembre 2012 12.22:13, Ana Guerrero a écrit : The venue contains several building, let's see one of them. You chose building 5. As you mention further down, this building has 25 sleeping places. a No, 28. The camp itself recommends it for a group

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: If you see debconf as some holidays, certainly. For debconf you need talk rooms, hacklabs, internet, etc that are impossible to evaluate seeing those photos. With the exception of internet which was not visible on the plan

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 07:44:22PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Jonathan, tl;dr: not all LeCamp beds are like those shown by Ana. [...] I understand (and can share part of) your concerns. Yet, as mentionned (on - team probably, sorry for that), Buildings 4 and 5 provide the most

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 decision meeting: past and present

2012-11-23 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, All the you in this email are plural you. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 07:20:09PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: And also, the bid was presented with some assumptions that later have not worked as expected. I was expecting the team (local and global) working in getting

[Debconf-team] DebConf13 decision meeting: past and present

2012-11-22 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi everybody, Some months ago I was in the bid decision meeting and I voted to have DebConf in Switzerland. It was not an easy decision, both bids were quite close and both have problems. In the meeting, there wasn't the possibility of not choosing any bid, something that now looking back should

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 decision meeting: past and present

2012-11-22 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:22:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: yeah, right totally true. And as I see it, this is so far the best prepared DebConf _ever_: we already have 60K, with 10-40k in the pipeline, and we are _NINE_ months ahead. Sadly, sponsorship is not lineal. So far, most of the

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship proposal

2012-11-07 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:08:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: At the risk of repeating myself: we should not provide late travel sponsorship, *at all*. It's an inefficient use of funds. If we can't provide travel sponsorship in a timely manner, *don't* provide travel sponsorship - save

Re: [Debconf-team] professional and corporate numbers from previous years

2012-11-06 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:38:09PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Ana, thanks for the interesting statistics! On Dienstag, 6. November 2012, Ana Guerrero wrote: ... Given le camp is in a place isolated, I fear some people not finding alternatives easily might give up in attending

[Debconf-team] professional and corporate numbers from previous years

2012-11-05 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi everybody, I have compiled some numbers about the professionals and corporate attendees from previous years. Disclaimer: those stats only counts people attending to DebConf who registered in penta. The numbers are not 100% accurate since every year we end having some last minutes changes

Re: [Debconf-team] A better budget analysis

2012-10-30 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012, Michael Banck wrote: I don't think that would be a problem, but I think it would also be problematic to put professionals into dorms. As I understand, there are only a limited amount of other

Re: [Debconf-team] A better budget analysis

2012-10-30 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:25:10PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012, Ana Guerrero wrote: If I understood right, the 32 sleeping bed dorm is: http://layer-acht.org/fotos/670_Switzerland_DC13-pre/20121027_027_Sm.jpg.61 .html yes the rest are regular rooms

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship proposal

2012-10-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:34:51PM -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: I'd propose that we have a bigger amount of raters for travel $ allocation. And people from the core teams (orga, travel sponsorship etc) would just provide the guidelines for them, but not join the raters' team. If we

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] Updates from Le Camp meeting

2012-08-15 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:35:34PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: ... be best (this would mean 3. to 17. august). This year quite some people left one day early because they wanted to be home on Sunday to restart work on Monday. Could this be because a lot of people had to take a transanlatic

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting with Le Camp

2012-08-08 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:54:49PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Martin Zobel-Helas (zo...@ftbfs.de): ... Does this mean there is a hard limit of 350 people to be allowed to come to debconf? If yes, this is a no-go for this location. Well, we *knew* about that when voting

Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation (Re: Final hotel numbers)

2012-06-21 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:27:10PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:24 -0600, Henning Sprang wrote: Is there anybody doing room allocation already? I have the info required for Seminole and can help/do it myself if someone gives some direction on where/how to start.

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13.ch - Local Team Meeting Minutes - 2012-06-18

2012-06-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 06:54:16PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: * DECISION: Wed. 5 September 2012, 18:45, Bern. * INFO: Romands would appreciate more meetings in Lausanne. * INFO: Philipp would appreciate more meetings in St-Gall. Hey, Just for curiosity, have you considered trying to

Re: [Debconf-team] [Soc-coordination] Sponsoring DebConf for Summer of code students

2012-05-27 Thread Ana Guerrero
[Discussion about having GSOC students to go to DebConf skip] Hi, Thanks everybody who wants to help! So for managing all the stuff about asking students, mailing google and so on, who wants to volunteer? Thanks, Ana ___ Debconf-team mailing list

Re: [Debconf-team] [Soc-coordination] Sponsoring DebConf for Summer of code students

2012-05-24 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:56:43PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi During the first IRC status meeting I had today with the Summer of Code student I'm mentoring together with Per Andersson the topic of wheter she planned to go to DebConf or not came up. it turned out that she did not

Re: [Debconf-team] [fwd: a little help with DebConf11 sponsorship]

2011-09-05 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:58:59AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ re-sent, now with the correct -team address, sorry ] Heya, JFYI, recently I've got a few worried emails about reimbursements, like the one you can find below (forwarded with Lior's permission). It looks like people are

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: san juan del sur NOT managua

2011-08-23 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 08:30:39AM -0700, Dave Taht wrote: I would argue more strongly in favor of the more relaxed, fun SJDS area for a conference over managua. There are sufficient hotels, etc, to fit in lots of geeks... as well as surf, music, and good food... and I have lots of

Re: [Debconf-team] Actual food numbers

2011-08-08 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:13:43AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Richard Darst (r...@zgib.net): Anyone who knows can just add them to here (or to debconf-data svn): http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Food It is quite likely (wild guess only, though) that we find out that

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-21 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:59:43AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: What I've failed to see thus far in this thread are alternative proposals. How could we choose the members of the herb team in a transparent manner? Would a call for volunteers on a public mailing list be enough? Has it been

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:05:29AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: for us, too. In the sponsorship form we don't ask for much information, but Clint didn't provided even the minimum of information needed to make the decision. Sadly, it is quite common for people to file the data and

Re: [Debconf-team] Letter from NGO DIVA

2011-07-06 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi Josif, [Just an personal view here, do NOT take this as a Debian response of any sort] On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:02:31PM +0200, NVO DIVA wrote: Government of Republika Srpska gave us a guarantee to 150.000€. Please do note that besides paying expenses for accommodation and food for all

[Debconf-team] I did not get any email regarding sponsorship

2011-06-20 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi! Somebody else from the team already informed me about my status, but I haven't gotten any email regarding travel sponsorship. Reporting it here in case there were a problem with more emails, If you are waiting for travel sponsorship and you did not get an email, ask. Please, whoever who

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft confirmation message

2011-06-12 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:03:23PM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: Well I'd like to consult with you before we have this sent out. First of all I'd like to see a line that will say to tidy up your registration details, from country you're coming from and etc ... So besides reconfirmation this ends

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft confirmation message

2011-06-12 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:03:23PM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: Well I'd like to consult with you before we have this sent out. First of all I'd like to see a line that will say to tidy up your registration details, from

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