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On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:16:53PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
thanks to Steve Langasek debugging the browser failures today we now
have the Pentabarf site (penta.debconf.org) working fully with epiphany
and galeon. (And probably others based on same rendering engine, only
tested those
lights going
forward, to improve visibility of speakers' slides?
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There's a lot of work to be done to flesh out such a plan, obviously. If
there's support for this in principle, I would be willing to put some effort
in to help turn this into something viable.
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, Serbia/Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina/
s/Republic of Srpska (Serbia Republic)/Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb
Republic)/
s/Republic of Srpska/the Republika Srpska/
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for the Republika Srpska and said “we expect that this
conference, which was held in New York last year, will enable significant
promotion of Republika Srpska and the City of Banja Luka on the
international IT scene.”
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this already ;)
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. sponsored travel costs, and instead focus on
what's important: the amount of sponsorship moneys the individual requires
in order to be able to attend DebConf?
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FWIW, corporate travel agencies also bring rather steep per-booking fees
(it's how they stay in business, after all), so there's a tradeoff to be
evaluated there.
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:10:14PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:18:03AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote:
When is the travel sponsorship process going to be fixed to stop asking
about total travel costs vs. sponsored travel costs, and instead focus on
what's important
is: how much would the project need to pay to
have you at debconf?
Yes, I think that's the same question I'm meaning to ask - though I don't
care much for that wording. :)
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:16:44PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [110722 16:39]:
I think this is an invented problem. There is no reason not to take Debian
contributors at their word when they say they need a certain amount of
travel assistance
not marked themselves
as 'Professional registration' because they're employees of a company that's
already a silver sponsor, so it doesn't make sense for them to (as
individuals) agree to pay extra but it also doesn't make sense for them to
take sponsored accomodation?
Just sayin'. ;)
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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:24:17AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012, Steve Langasek wrote:
Or they might be people who want to have accomodation in the main location
for DebConf but want to pay their own way? And have not marked themselves
as 'Professional registration
*efficiently* to travel
sponsorship instead of at the last minute when it doesn't do nearly as much
good.
As people have been asking for DebConf to do for several years now.
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 11:25:37AM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
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
, but *not* staying at Le Camp due to scarcity of suitable
accomodation. It's not clear to me what impact, if any, such decisions have
on the overall planning of the DebConf team.
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to put an end to this. Listmasters, can you please create
debconf-team and debconf-discuss lists on lists.debian.org, so that the
DebConf team can also benefit from the rock-solid Debian lists
infrastructure?
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Resending this from a different source address, as per my previous mail.
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attendee, and we
aren't really making an informed decision about whether holding DebConf at
LeCamp is the right thing to do.
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:03:48AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:49:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
I do know that at
each DebConf where the standard accomodation was 4-per-room,
I don't know from where you have this standard:
To clarify, I was speaking about
help you, by being transparent and public about these
things.
Also, please remember that this is a Debian conference, and that it's in our
nature to second-guess every decision anyone ever makes... and try to bear
your fellow compulsive geeks with a bit of grace and humor. ;)
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, given that a contract is due to be signed this week that
puts the DC13 on the hook for some rather steep financial obligations.
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:12:13AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
Whether the money is being put to good use for Debian is precisely the
question that's being raised, AIUI.
[…]
We need decisive and timely leadership here
listed on
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/LeCamp/Rooms. What assumptions
have gone into the calculation of these quantities for the different kinds
of fees, and how do these assumptions line up with the known facts about
available accomodation?
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by sex will be
easy since they'll be all male.
I leave it for others to decide whether this would constitute a successful
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it appears some
people are expecting otherwise - in particular, assuming camping will be
allowed if the contract says it isn't. Is it your understanding that you
are signing this contract even if camping in disallowed, or that you will
not sign a contract that disallows camping?
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I haven't seen anyone making a reasonable effort to set the record straight
either.
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that DebConf has never had to contend with
previously, owing to previous conferences being held where external
accomodation options were either in close walking distance, or well
connected by public transport.
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:31:56AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Steve Langasek dijo [Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 01:20:38PM -0800]:
Hi folks,
In response to Moray's prompting on d-d-a, I'm writing to confirm that we
are interested in putting forth a bid to host DebConf14 in Portland, OR.
http
://www.google.com/calendar/ical/m64tkgkfioa8jqqbcs77l7shqo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
(done in google calendar for now because it's easy for me to manage, but I'd
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calendar feed is generally more useful; it's easier for people to
ignore meetings that they're not attending than to find calendars they
didn't know they were missing.
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with local arrangements, and that
there will be a lot that Jonathan and Allison will be able to help with
remotely by phone/email.
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The DC14 selection committee is, well, a committee; and the best way to
handle biases in a committee where majority rules is not by trying to make
sure nobody with a bias is part of it, but by making sure the biases of the
project as a whole are fairly represented on the committee.
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huge added costs from renting space we're not using for the whole
week.
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, relatives in the US, prior convictions for
drug running in Patagonia?
This information would be useful to the Portland team for preparing our plan
of attack for visa handling, and it may also be interesting to the DebConf
committee in their bid evaluation.
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hypothetical people who are unable to attend a DebConf
in the US.
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, and that doesn't seem like a
sensible trade-off to me.
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Hall instead of the Ballroom.
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)
If not, what /does/ it refer to?
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on there. :-)
And for consistency with https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/PriceComparison, the
total spent should at least include the known venue costs.
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to sponsor travel/lodging)?
I don't know that there's any fixed up-front price, but sponsored attendance
at DebConf includes both food and accomodation. So for the big picture of
how much money does DebConf spend, this is very relevant.
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/DebConf13/Meetings :-(
But http://www.debconf.org/calendars/DebConf-team.ics is :-)
DC14 bid status meeting, Friday @ 1700 UTC.
Next DC13 meeting, TBD; doodle poll still open.
http://doodle.com/igh59zc27i9uup2c
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the same throughout the year. The only thing that changes
is availability. The university's group hosting season runs from June 20 to
the end of August, so provided we can find a time in that range when all the
facilities are available, the price will be the same.
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that they prefer to
clear US customs and immigration in Seattle/LA/Portland, in light of
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130308/13380622263/9th-circuit-appeals-court-4th-amendment-applies-border-also-password-protected-files-shouldnt-arouse-suspicion.shtml.
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it makes sense to
skip over them and sponsor persons n+4..n+9 in the same space just because
it fills the space better.
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the weather is
best, there would be no beaches and definitely not a 5-star hotel.
Finally, a strong point of the Venezuelan bid is that the Portland team
would not have to do any work for DC14 and could relax on the beach the
whole time. ;-)
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travel sponsorship
CHF 5k for conference dinner
CHF 3k for external speakers
CHF 20k for DebCamp
CHF 3k for day trip
we have all we need, stop looking for more sponsors
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, but
if you see anything that looks off, let's please discuss.
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outreach
budget is currently approximately 0.
http://www.universetoday.com/100949/sequester-cancels-nasa-outreach/#ixzz2OcIaS9f6
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financially good times, so if I were you I wouldn't get my hopes up.
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of the Herb
team per se, and my comments are not targeted at them personally. But it
does mean that the Herb team's decision-making process should be kept at
arm's length from the registration team to avoid contamination.
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treating accomodation upgrades as a
paid premium.
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to the main debconf-team mailing
list. But in the meantime, there's plenty of planning to be done, so please
subscribe there to follow along!
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it and think this is a
good use of the money, we could do hot lunch for all attendees - but we
don't want to get into the mess of trying to charge people different rates
for meals. :/
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/responses to the call for papers?
Please use a clearer name for this track. I know that you're not talking
about a track dedicated to real-time clocks, but I only know that due to the
context of reading your blog.
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for the other meal(s)?
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badges, using both sides of the paper. So the
8-per-sheet is already printing double-sided.
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. But appeals to authority like this - and like those
that have been used to suppress discussion previously over the course of
DC13 preparation - are highly inappropriate.
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it be possible for someone to provide this analysis in a succinct
email, to help the team make an informed decision in the poll?
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with a plan that fits
the budget they were given.
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my POV then, the expenses
allocable to the conference dinner line are CHF 9402, which is under
budget.
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or we
want to be on the safest side.
I would *personally* be ok with any of the menus *except* menu 8.
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:03:02AM +0200, Raphaël Walther wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:58:20AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote:
Most people who don't eat pork due to religious prescriptions will also not
eat mussels.
This is probably wrong.
The safest way is to go for the menu 3
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 08:01:20AM +0200, Raphaël Walther wrote:
Hi Steve,
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:11:06AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:03:02AM +0200, Raphaël Walther wrote:
I need to choose in 11 hours and it looks like there is no consensus at
all. So
would be borderline acceptable to me, but I would probably
not eat the trout.
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/person on adapters when the problem can probably be solved centrally
for half that.
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before I leave, so I'm picking
up a pack. Would anybody like me to order additional for them?
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childcare
duties in a rotation. IMHO that seems a lot simpler than trying to hire
licensed child care professionals, not to mention cheaper, while still
making it possible for most of the parents to participate in the conference
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the former rather than the latter, perhaps
the existing notice would be sufficient?
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not make it the video team's problem to tape off
areas that are guaranteed to be out of view of the camera, we already do a
fine job meeting the needs of such attendees with the awesome realtime video
streams.
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, as you committed
texts, are you fine with a move to CC-BY-SA ?
Yes, fine with me. I share this preference for CC-BY for text, I just
didn't care enough to argue with the standing GPLv2 guideline.
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doesn't notice and loses changes.
+1, especially since the current antispam registration check requires manual
approval of all accounts by the admins.
(Wishlist: Debian SSO for wiki.debconf.org...)
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dates locked down so that we can move ahead with the
university.
FWIW, with the above schedule I think we would represent the DebConf dates
in public communications as being Aug 23-Aug 31 (with clarifications
everywhere appropriate).
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*, and for
how long?
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:59:50PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:50:26 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
Clarifying something from Patty's original mail, the precise limits on the
venue are:
[..]
- August 22: earliest date that PSU can accomodate a full set of people
at the IRC meeting, because that biases the time in favor
of those who manage to show up for the first meeting.
If no one else gets to it, I'll plan to set up a doodle poll this weekend.
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that access to the venue is less important than cheap accomodation,
FWIW, and we're more likely to get cheap accomodation before DebConf proper
than after. So this is the primary angle I intend to pursue with PSU for
the DebCamp / sprints.
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Still looking for answers for the below questions from the video / network
teams.
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:48:54AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
snip
What would help for moving this conversation forward with PSU is to have
solid order-of-magnitude estimates from our side for how many people
permitted Aug 22, people can stay over night to September 1).
- Tony Mancill will put together the sponsorship brochure by the end of the
month.
- Brian Gupta will propose sponsorship levels by the end of the month.
- Steve Langasek will follow up with Philipp Hug's to get a budget done
-
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 01:31:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Doodle mai...@doodle.com
To: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org
Subject: Doodle: Link for poll DebConf 14 IRC meetings
You have initiated a poll DebConf 14 IRC meetings at Doodle. The link to your
poll is:
http://doodle.com/2y3ey34akmxnm26z
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 08:15:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 04:50:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I've pre-filtered the set of possible meeting times (out of the set of all
possible meeting times) to those that Patty and I can conceivably make it
to. So you only
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 02:49:52PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Sonntag, 20. Oktober 2013, Steve Langasek wrote:
Doodle is timezone-aware; I entered the times in Pacific Time. It happens
purely by luck that Europe and America will both be out of DST before the
proposed week for the next
. Logos on the websites. Logos on the bags if we do them.
Anything else is just making more work for no gain.
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pointers on the best way to make
this happen?
FWIW as a personal data point, I now have too many DebConf messenger bags
and not enough DebConf reusable grocery bags... so I'd be in favor of the
reusable grocery bag style again from DebConf 10. ;)
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:32:13PM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:20:08PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote:
On 10/24/2013 01:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
FWIW as a personal data point, I now have too many DebConf messenger bags
and not enough DebConf reusable grocery
; this
suggests to me that it may actually be valuable to have separate lists, to
let people follow along with the parts that are relevant to them.
I would not like to drop the debconf14-team list in favor of the existing
debconf-team list, however, given the abysmal state of archiving for that
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of us as
little as possible ;), I guess it might be best to not have both of us
completely out of the loop for the meetings.
We can discuss at the meeting whether those in attendance would prefer the
Tuesday @ 20:00 slot going forward from December.
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we can divvy up the work and get things moving.
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