Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf meetings this week

Hi, On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > Could someone explain the purpose of the co-ordination team? >From last week's meeting [1]: This team is in charge of facilitating the work of other teams. This means that it makes sure that people are not blocked,

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf meetings this week

Hi, On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Bernelle Verster wrote: >> > 1. Coord meeting, Monday 21 September (today) 16:00UTC (18:00 >> >SAST) on #debconf-coordination >> A bit short notice, and I wonder why it's on a separate channel. > From my perspective (as the person

[Debconf-team] Final Report sprint: Monday Sept 7th - 19 UTC

Hey all, There's still a lot of work to be done on the content of the Final Report and we welcome your help in getting it done. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/FinalReport As mentioned before, this year we are trying something different: document as much as we want for posterity, and

Re: [Debconf-team] Getting the DC15 final report done (sprint: 2015-08-31 1900 UTC)

Hey all! So, we started some of the work for the Final Report tonight, but there's still a lot to be done. Our current plan is to aim to have many separate articles in the wiki, even if they don't all end up being in the PDF (or end up in an abriedge version in the PDF). This will allow us to

Re: [Debconf-team] Patch to DebConf orgateam structure

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Having read this, I think that the problem lies at what each of us identifies as local team, we are clearly thinking of different things. I wish we could have had this discussion at DebConf. When I say that there should be a local team, it does not mean that members of

Re: [Debconf-team] Getting the DC15 final report done (sprint: 2015-08-31 1900 UTC)

HI, On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: In related news, I started a skeleton DC15 report during DebCamp and uli Scholler said he would help with typesetting again. On the other hand, I heard from the DC16 camp that they might try scribus this time. I

Re: [Debconf-team] [Protest] Changes should come from within the team and not from above

Hi, On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org wrote: Imagine if tomorrow the DPL would send a mail to d-d-a saying that the chairs are replaced (...) ? Really I check the d-d-a every morning for that. This is a very bad symptom of how bad things are in the team right

[Debconf-team] [Protest] Changes should come from within the team and not from above

The DebConf Chairs are supposed to be leading the team. Leading may mean sometimes taking hard decisions, but most of the time it should mean guiding, working with the team towards achieving consensus and making sure that ideas are heard. Imposing changes from above without consultation is not

Re: [Debconf-team] Patch to DebConf orgateam structure

HI, On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Tassia Camoes Araujo tas...@debian.org wrote: About localteam: we were open to nominate the localteam in the teams structure, since it was a strong request from dc15 people, though dc16 team prefers to work without the local/global split. There are some

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

Hey everyone, Thanks a lot for the interest and the support shown in this thread. It does seem that we are mostly in agreement regarding the timeline. It seems that we mostly need a better name for pre-registration, and there are some doubts about the month for bursaries being or not enough time

[Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

We talked a bit about this during the DebConf Sprint that we had during DebCamp and my feeling was that there was rough consensus about it. I'm sending it team-wide now, as a request for comments. The main change that I'm proposing is renaming our original registration period to pre-registration

Re: [Debconf-team] Results: T-Shirt colors for DebConf15 Heidelberg

Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Daniel Lange dl@usrlocal.de wrote: unfortunately the lion scars printed on test t-shirts bleed out so they will not meet our quality requirements. I think the simplest option is to just do without them. They were a nice special touch, but not too

[Debconf-team] DC15 global team meeting tonight at 19:00 UTC on #debconf-team

Hi all, It's only 3 weeks till DebCamp starts and some final knots need tying. We have a global team meeting tonight on #debconf-team at 19:00 UTC. Draft agenda is here: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-07-20 If you care about DebConf, please be there. -- Besos,

[Debconf-team] Global DC15 meeting tomorrow - Monday, July 6th - 19:00 UTC

Hi, During the meeting two weeks ago, we ran out of time with half of the agenda still uncovered, so we agreed to a meeting this coming Monday. This is the Agenda: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-07-06 We are one month before the conference and there's lots of

Re: [Debconf-team] Unmanned video setup/BoF remote participation

Hi, On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: Don't we have a way to query the BoF organisers whether video is wanted, which is information useful to room allocation? This is currently on-going but the amount of BoFs is so many that more than half of the

[Debconf-team] Meeting this Monday, June 22nd

Hi all, We have a global team meeting this Monday, June 22nd, at 19 UTC on #debconf-team. This is the Agenda for the meeting: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-06-22#Agenda I'm currently in Istambul and I'm not totally sure if I'll be able to attend or not (I will

Re: [Debconf-team] Job fair timing and sponsorship criteria

Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: I know I'm late to this, but having the arrival day on Friday is usually problematic from people travelling from far away: It requires taking basically an extra half week from work (Thursday+Friday) to arrive on time

[Debconf-team] Status of available beds at DC15

Hi, We discussed this yesterday, I just want to give a quick status update. Currently, we have a max of 363 people registered on the same day, out of which a max of 326 request accommodation. The hostel includes 435 proper beds (plus 12 beds that come out of a bed). We also have 32 beds

Re: [Debconf-team] Pre-payment by wire transfer for accomodation+food

Hi! On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Nicolas Dandrimont ol...@debian.org wrote: I understand that we need two payments: - One for the registration fee, that can be wired to the DebConf e.V. - One for the accomodation+food, paid directly to the Hostel. This worries me as this is definitely

[Debconf-team] DC15 Meeting - Tomorrow at 19:00 UTC on #debconf-team

Hi all, Please note that with summer time back in Europe, tomorrow's meeting will be held at 19:00 UTC (21:00 CEST). The agenda lives at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-03-30#Agenda Currently, these are the topics scheduled to be discussed: * Registration Status

Re: [Debconf-team] Register attending children?

Hi, On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: The 0-year-old is clearly not an issue, but the wiki page currently suggests that the 3 year old variously needs to register: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/FAQs/Kids#How_do_I_register_my_family.3F and need

[Debconf-team] Suggestions for improving our IRC meetings

Hi, Yesterday it was raised that our IRC meetings might be a bit stressful for people that are not native English speakers, or that are not used to following text discussions that go so fast. I agree that this is a problem and good like to improve the way we do our meetings. For future meetings

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Meeting tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

Hi, The meeting went a bit longer than our usual hour, several things got a very heated discussion. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2015/debconf-team.2015-03-02-19.59.html Important to note is that we'll be having the DC15-specific meeting on #debconf-team only

[Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

The DC15 budget has been getting updates as we get more sponsors and more confirmation of how much certain expenses will be. Now it's time to try to finalize it and get it approved. The budget spreadsheet is located at debconf-data/dc15/budget/budget.ods And can be viewed directly at:

[Debconf-team] DC15 Meeting tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

Hi all, We have our bi-monthly DC15 meeting tomorrow on #debconf-team. This is the agenda: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-03-02 You'll notice that in the last item I'm proposing reducing the frequency of this meeting to a monthly meeting. As we've found it's better

Re: [Debconf-team] Voluntary conference contributions for pro/corp attendees

So, after a LOT of running around in circles, discussing the past, the present and the future, I think we've come to a final agreement on what we should do. This was the only missing piece to open registration, which we plan to do tomorrow (Monday, March 2nd). Before objecting, please keep in mind

[Debconf-team] Please have a mailing list for content team

Hi, This was mentioned on the IRC meeting last week, now I'm raising this as an official request. The content team has one need for secrecy which is to discuss evaluation of talks. This makes sense and is not disputed by anybody. However, with the new organization, a lot of matters fall in the

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft schedule format

Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Santiago Ruano Rincón santi...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:42:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: AFAIK, lunch and dinner would overlap 30 minutes each with talks/events, As agreed on the last meeting, lunch will be scheduled-talk-free,

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft schedule format

Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:08 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: Yes, brunch could be fine on those days. Has the hostel specified a time for that? We need to decide on this. No time from the hostel, we get to shape that with them, but I'd say 10:30–12:30 might be a good time?

Re: [Debconf-team] DebCamp and DebConf dates

Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Tassia Camoes Araujo tas...@debian.org wrote: What about orga arrival on the 8th, DebCamp arrival day on the 9th, than sprints from 10 to 14? Can I consider those dates for the call for sprints? These dates sound good to me, yes. I'm afraid that number

[Debconf-team] DC15: CFP - Opening of registrations - Call for sprints

Hey all, Summit is basically ready to open registrations (cate: please correct me if I'm wrong) and what we need now is: 1) The text for the call for papers / CFP+open reg announcement? This was briefly discussed on IRC. It's unclear if we want to send one mail/announcement or two. I think one

[Debconf-team] Cape Town to host DebConf16

Hi, After a meeting that went very well, showing that we had two very strong bids, it was decided that Cape Town will host DebConf in 2016. Meeting minutes here: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2015/debconf-team.2015-02-13-19.01.html -- Besos, Marga

Re: [Debconf-team] DebCamp and DebConf dates

Hi, On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Giacomo Catenazzi c...@cateee.net wrote: Could we setup the dates of DebCamp and DebConf, including sponsored days, and talks days? I prepared a proposal: Thanks for this. Some personal comments. Sat 8 Aug: Early arrivals (Setup, DebCamp) starting

Re: [Debconf-team] busaries question about speakers

Hi, On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org wrote: Quick question: should people with accepted talks in the official track assume they will get sponsored food+room if they ask for it? My opinion matches that of Martin. I think that accepted official speakers that

Re: [Debconf-team] LWN coverage of DebConf15

Hi, On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Martín Ferrari tin...@debian.org wrote: By initiative of Paul Wise, recently there has been some talks about inviting a LWN journalist to cover DebConf15, by offering travel and board sponsoring. We discussed this briefly on the IRC meeting tonight. The

Re: [Debconf-team] bursaries questions for summit (URGENT)

Hi, On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org wrote: I think the separation is more to let people choose to cover part of their costs by just applying for food or accomodation sponsorship but not both. So people only choosing one would pay half of their costs. At

[Debconf-team] DC16 - Flight prices comparison

Hi all, I did a very simple scan of prices to Cape Town and to Montreal from different places around the world. This was done all in the same flight search engine and for the period of August 1-August 15 2015. I don't expect these prices to match real prices of people looking for their best

[Debconf-team] DC16 - Question to Cape Town: Supermarket(s) near Upper Campus

Hi, Regarding the Upper Campus venue, the wiki says 15 minutes walk to closest off-campus restaurant, but I can't find anything regarding supermarkets. Could you state how far or how close the closest supermarket is? Also, are those 15 minutes enough to reach a bunch of restaurants, or just one?

[Debconf-team] Bid status and the upcoming decision meeting

Hi all, As I already mentioned on a separate mail, we will have the decision meeting next Tuesday at 19 UTC. The old process included a Bid status meeting, that this year we are skipping in favor of going directly for the decision one. Instead of an IRC meeting, we'd like to ask for some status

[Debconf-team] DebConf16 Decision Meeting: January 27th, 19 UTC.

Hi all, The decision meeting for settling the location for DebConf16 will be next Tuesday, January 27th at 19 UTC. It will be held in #debconf-team at irc.debian.org. -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: This is not a silver bullet to avoid people coming to DebCamp on vacation. But we think it's something that will help many people make the most of that time. [quoting my mail to cont...@debconf.org] I beg to

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

Hi, The point is: what about those who have a non-sprint plan? Will they be considered by boursaries team? The bursaries team will need to decide what they will do, and nothing in my mail claimed otherwise. We want to strongly encourage people to participate in the sprints and see how that

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

Hi, Minutes from today's meeting: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2015/debconf-team.2015-01-19-19.59.html We covered a lot of topics, although we didn't reach agreement on all of them. Thanks to everyone that attended. -- Besos, Marga ___

[Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

Hi, We will have another IRC meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC. There's a bunch of stuff that we need to discuss, so if you are available, please join us. Current list of items in the agenda: * Summit status regarding DC15 * Data to request from attendees * Data to request in talk submissions *

[Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

Hi all, This is something that we've talked about with a lot of people, but possibly not on this list, so I'm sending this to make sure that we are all on the same page about this. For DebConf15 we would like to try something new regarding DebCamp. Instead of asking each person to come up with a

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Prices and deals for non-sponsored attendees

Hi, On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:41 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach Richard Hartmann richih.mailingl...@gmail.com [2015-01-18 21:31 +0100]: Swag is fine, but I think a coloured badge is overdoing things and will hurt the togetherness during DebConf. How so? The idea

[Debconf-team] DebConf Committe for the selection of the DC16 location

. The team representatives for this round will be: * Infrastructure: Richard Hartmann * Coordination: Margarita Manterola * Content: René Mayorga * Participant Assistance: Norman García * Fundraising: Patty Langasek And they'll be joined by: * Gunnar Wolf * Holger Levsen * Guido Trotter * Philipp Hug

[Debconf-team] DC15 - Prices and deals for non-sponsored attendees

Hi! One of the things that we need to agree on before opening registration is attendee categories and prices for each of this. The hostel has agreed to handle the money for us. So any registered non-sponsored attendee will just arrive to the hostel on their arrival day, and pay to the hostel

[Debconf-team] Question to Montreal Team: Prices for lodging

Hi, I'm looking at the venue pages for the Montreal bid and the prices for accommodation are perhaps not clear enough From https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Montreal/Venues/McGill: Many of them seem to cost the same for a single or a double room, is that correct? I assume this means

[Debconf-team] Question to Cape Town team: transportation to/from the venue

Hi, For the UCT venue (the first choice venue) the current location information says: Venue is about 7 minutes from the city centre, by car (no traffic). 45 minutes walk to the nearest bus stop. The venue is free, so budget for nightly chartered bus is reasonable 45 minutes to the bus stop is

[Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 meeting today at 20:00 UTC

Hi all! The holiday season is now getting behind us and we need to resume our work towards getting DC15 ready. Please be there for today's meeting at 20:00 UTC (about 7 hours from now). -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list

Re: [Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 meeting today at 20:00 UTC

Hi, The meeting was a bit chaotic as we had no real agenda, but I think it was productive. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2015/debconf-team.2015-01-05-20.00.html -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list

[Debconf-team] DC16 timeline, bid decision committee and next steps

We have two great bids for DC16 and now need to establish the rest of the timeline to reach a decision regarding who will get to carry Pollito home at the end of DC15 :). At this point, anyone interested in DebConf should feel free to start looking at the bids ([1] and [2]), to point out any

[Debconf-team] Next DC15 meeting: Monday, January 5th 2015 - 20:00 UTC

Hi, Minutes from today's meeting: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-12-08-20.00.html Next DC15 IRC meeting to be held on 2015-01-05, 20:00 UTC. Agenda at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-01-05 -- Besos, Marga

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

Hi, On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@debian.org wrote: The content team is probably the team whose work is more independant from the venue itself, so maybe we should prioritize here 'global people' over 'local team' and keep only 2 people out of 10 from the 'local

[Debconf-team] Next Coordination Team Meeting - Tuesday, December 16th 19:00 UTC

Hi all, As expected today's meeting run longer than 1 hour, even without 2 teams being absent from it. The minutes and log are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-12-04-19.00.html There are quite a bunch of issues not related to the re-org that we still need to

[Debconf-team] Coordination Team Meeting - Thursday, December 4th - 19 UTC

Hi all, The dudl result was quite close, but the winning option is Thursday 19:00 UTC, so we'll go with that one. This first meeting is going to be about the new team organization. We want to make sure that everyone is on the same page, that it's clear what each team has to do and clear any

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 bid submission deadline is close - How are the bids doing?

Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: We'd like to know who is out there preparing to submit a bid for DC16, and how you all are doing. Remember that the deadline is the end of this year. Sorry for the confusion, the deadline is actually

[Debconf-team] DC16 bid submission deadline is close - How are the bids doing?

Dear DC16-bid teams, We'd like to know who is out there preparing to submit a bid for DC16, and how you all are doing. Remember that the deadline is the end of this year. If you have questions, doubts, suggestions or need any kind of guidance, please feel free to ask. We may want to have an

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsored lanyards, a proposal

Hi, On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com wrote: We'll make and fund our own badge lanyards. This last part was not agreed and is not a decision to be taken by the fundraising team. If we are not getting them for free, I'd rather we sponsored more people than

[Debconf-team] Coordination team meeting, please add yourself to the dudle

Hi all, We need to start the work of this new coordination team, and if possible, we would like to have the first IRC meeting during next week, and make it a recurring monthly meeting. For that to succeed, we need people that are interested in participating to add themselves to the dudle:

[Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tonight

Hi, We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) The current agenda is at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2014-11-24 There aren't that many items right now. Feel free to add issues to discuss if you have any. -- Besos, Marga

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tonight

Hi, The minutes from the meeting are at: Agenda for next meeting is at: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) The current agenda is at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tonight

Oh wow, sorry about that... The minutes from the meeting are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-11-24-19.59.html Agenda for next meeting is at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2014-12-08 -- Besos, Marga

[Debconf-team] Job Fair

Hi all, One of our potential sponsors has asked for more details about the Job Fair, I gave them what I could based on what we had talked among the team, but still there were a lot of unanswered details, that I think we need to figure out to tell this and other sponsors. The main questions, as

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting reminder: tonight, 20:00 UTC

Thanks for those who attended. Meeting notes from the meetbot: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-10-27-20.01.html -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf 15 opening weekened

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 as DebConf days. It seems like this has been decided already. Before jumping to

[Debconf-team] DC15 Team meeting tonight on #debconf-team at 19:30 UTC (21:30 CEST)

Hey all, As discussed two weeks ago, we will have a DC15 team meeting every other Monday, at 21:30 Germany time (which translates to 19:30 UTC for today and 20:30 UTC starting from the next meeting). The agenda for tonight's meeting is at:

Re: [Debconf-team] Estimating budget assumptions for DC15

Hi, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:57 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: the utility of the DC15 budget will depend largely on the assumptions we make, mainly how many people we expect to be staying at the youth hostel on each day. This is guesswork, but we should try our best, for

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: We don't really have much weekend time, especially considering tnat we are planning an opening weekend. The next Saturday is already the final conference day and we are off on Sunday. I believe just three days of

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: 8 hours during weekends I think we should not overload the weekend that much. I'm not sure why, so I'd like to hear more on this point. Particularly for the Opening Weekend, we are anticipating a larger amount of

Re: [Debconf-team] Hacking vs. free time (was: General schedule proposal for dc15)

Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:46 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: Seriously, I wonder why we are discussing this, as we are speaking about exactly the same concept: larger periods of continuous (free) time in the schedule which people can use for hacking. But since they are not

Re: [Debconf-team] TorrentStream

Hi César, Thanks for your interest in DebConf15. On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:36 PM, César Cordero rockce...@gmail.com wrote: I want to contribute with an presentation about TorrentStream and the using of Peerflix and Node.js via this technology. Where do I have to send my presentation?. You

[Debconf-team] DC15 team IRC meeting tonight (Sept. 15th - 19 UTC)

Hi all, The DC15 team (in other DebConf editions known as local team) will meet tonight at 19 UTC. Due to popular demand, this meeting will take place on #debconf-team. This is an experiment to see if participants (particularly non debconf-team regulars) feel comfortable having the meeting

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf organization working group and next steps

HI, On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Tassia tas...@acaia.ca wrote: We agreed that the chairs would take on the administrative task of facilitating the teams' composition, so I'll explain in a bit more detail how we are going to proceed. As soon as we have agreed on a list of subteams, we are

Re: [Debconf-team] RFC: (Hopefully) Last draft of the dc15 sponsorship brochure

Hi, On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: * Job fair: do we have some idea of how much this will cost to accommodate? The specifics of the job fair are not in the brochure, but our idea of how this is going to work is that it will be during one limited period

Re: [Debconf-team] Subsidised bar prices

Hi, On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Marcelo Gutierrez mmg...@gmail.com wrote: Is this policy definitive? When was this decided? The hostel (Jugendherberge in German) is part of a group of hostels that have this policy, i.e. the policy comes from above and is not something that can be changed.

Re: [Debconf-team] Subsidised bar prices

Hi, On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:38 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: At DC13, where a drink was to cost 4 CHF (~$4.50), there was an outcry among the participants, resulting in the subsidy of drinks at the bar by the organisers. I believe an important motive for the outcry was the

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf governance (Re: About the DC15 entity and authority (was: DebConf 15 Legal Entity)

Hi! We discussed this all day long in the debconf15 IRC channel. And we found that we are basically in agreement with the following statement: The association (Verein) is just a legal entity for contract signing/liability limitation/money transactions, but for DebConf decision processes, the

[Debconf-team] DebConf 15 Legal Entity

concerns, should there be any. Although we might not be able to take all things into account, as we are bound by requirements of German law and the tax authorities, we would like to avoid any problems that have already arisen in the past. -- Thanks Margarita Manterola On behalf of DebConf15 team

Re: [Debconf-team] German two-bid strategy

Hi, This is becoming quite a flamewar and doesn't seem a productive use of everyone's time. I'm not going to reply point by point, but rather give a general overview of my opinion, both as having been part of the committee, a DebConf organizer, and part of the German bid at this time. When the

Re: [Debconf-team] Some thoughts on sponsorship tiers, and perhaps one improvement.

Hi, On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com wrote: What do people think? I think it's a very good idea. It might be necessary to present it in a way that bigger sponsors don't feel cheated, but I think that's possible. Also, there's 9 months till DC13, I would

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

Hi, Just clarification not about this specific case. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, LeCamp in *not* being decided upon. It *was* decided upon in the decision meeting vote for the venue of Debconf 13 long time ago. And it stays that

[Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

Hi, It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf chairs. I regret that it has come to this, but since I still do have a lot of concerns, I'm following this path. My main concerns were expressed in a

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf

[Debconf-team] Concerns regarding Le Camp

Hi, I know I've been away for too long. I know I should have raised these concerns before. I'm really sorry about both things. However, I've spent the past days coming up to speed with what's going on. I can see that there have been endless discussions and currently most people aren't happy for

[Debconf-team] Meeting minutes from Tuesday March 29th

Hi, The bot minutes and log are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-29-20.00.html http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-29-20.00.log.html # DC10 Final report status The Final Report is basically done, thanks to Tiago and Tassia,

Re: [Debconf-team] March 31st update - accomodation

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Adnan Hodzic ad...@foolcontrol.org wrote: * french is single big bed, usually for couples In English this is called a double bed. When there are two beds in a room, it's a twin room. Please let's call it that -since we are communicating in English- to avoid

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf discussion: Venue bid process

Hi all! I'm sorry that I've been silent and away from a lot of Debian/DebConf mailing lists due to work issues. I hope I'm still on time to express my opinion on this matter. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: Here is a new draft bid process with minor

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf10 is _11th_ debian conference

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Patty Langasek harmo...@dodds.net wrote: Am I reading this right? We're refusing to fix a bug that is WRONG in a Debian-related medium because people supposedly proof-read it and said it was fine? Seriously? The website has already been fixed, and it now says:

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

Hi! Thanks!  It looks right to me.  Marga, can you take a look at the schedule when you get a chance and let me know if i've faithfully interpreted your proposal?  https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc10/ Regarding the Schedule, it looks fine, BUT there shouldn't be something

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: On 07/08/2010 06:49 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: How about, rescheduling M: * move pre-lunch events 30 minutes earlier and add 1 slot (start at 9:30, end at 12:30), move post-luch events 1 hour earlier (start

Re: [Debconf-team] [reg/payment teams] Calculating attendee fees

Hi, Some opinions on the subject. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: Unsponsored (basic, no food or accom): - This always pays by day during DebConf. 53/night and 15/meal during  DebConf - Can these DebCampers ever have a free DebCamp stay if they have  a

Re: [Debconf-team] My thoughts on reconfirmation, fundraising, etc

Hi! So, I was asked to state my opinion on this matter, as a previous DC Organizer and all. In Argentina, we didn't have too many $tourists registering from outside, due to the long distance flights and all. But to avoid $tourists from .ar, what I did was review every non-maintainer from .ar

Re: [Debconf-team] My thoughts on reconfirmation, fundraising, etc

A small reply to myself: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: Now, it looks like the amount of people in this situation in NYC is similar, only that the cost per person is almost double what we had over here (350 USD vs 650 USD), so I can

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Report ready - Request for Comments

Hi! I've corrected all the things that were pointed out, either by mail or on IRC, and re-uploaded the corrected version. I guess a press release should be issued now. Maybe do DC11 in Bosnia and DC9 Final Report ready in the same release? -- Besos, Marga

[Debconf-team] Orga meeting minutes

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Jonathan McDowellnood...@earth.li wrote: * For those people looking for t-shirts who have lost theirs or weren't  in Penta we'll start giving away those we still have that haven't been  picked up tomorrow. For free? How many people really lost t-shirts? You

[Debconf-team] Events scheduled after 21:00

Hi! There seems to be some conflict about this, and I wanted to leave an opinion I think it's perfectly acceptable that video team members don't want to work during or after dinner. I don't oppose the decision, everybody should be able to have dinner in peace. Last night, what was done was

Re: [Debconf-team] Food for some sponsors

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Steve McIntyrest...@einval.com wrote: Zobel just asked me about covering food expenses for some sponsors who have just arrived. He says there are a couple of folks from DG-I who would like to eat with us. They have paid us EUR 3,000 for sponsorship, so rather

Re: [Debconf-team] Vertical banner review

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Damyan Ivanovd...@debian.org wrote: http://media.debconf.org/dc9/vertical-banner/banner.pdf The deadline for corrections is this weekend. I think only sponsors up to silver should be listed. -- Besos, Marga ___

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