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

2015-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
David Bremner da...@tethera.net writes: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org writes: Fine then. Can we have a word from bursaries team on this? Thanks, The bursaries team has not yet been formally constituted, so can't really make policy pronouncements. A group of us are in the

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

2015-01-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 05:58:21PM +0100, Margarita Manterola 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)

2015-01-19 Thread Margarita Manterola
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)

2015-01-19 Thread Maximiliano Curia
On 19/01/15 02:00, Richard Hartmann wrote: What metric would be used to determine which sprints are accepted? Or is that simply left to the content team to deal with? Almost none, the call for sprints is needed to assign the rooms and schedule mostly, so others can plan to join in. Also the

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

2015-01-19 Thread Tassia Camoes Araujo
Hello dc-team, I take off my Chairs hat now, please read the following lines as my own PoV. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 04:23:00PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: 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

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

2015-01-19 Thread David Bremner
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org writes: Fine then. Can we have a word from bursaries team on this? Thanks, The bursaries team has not yet been formally constituted, so can't really make policy pronouncements. A group of us are in the process of putting together some general rules

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

2015-01-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Bremner da...@tethera.net [2015-01-19 19:56 +0100]: On the other hand, extapolating from my own experience, I'm sure there is plenty of individual work on Debian that happens because people are at debcamp, that would not otherwise happen. I've always been in this camp, just

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

2015-01-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tassia Camoes Araujo tas...@acaia.ca [2015-01-19 18:16 +0100]: Just to be super clear: in this new structure, will someone be able to participate in DebCamp because it collaborates with persons X, Y and Z, considering that face-to-face interactions are beneficial to their work, aka

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

2015-01-19 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 06:54:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Tassia Camoes Araujo tas...@acaia.ca [2015-01-19 18:16 +0100]: Just to be super clear: in this new structure, will someone be able to participate in DebCamp because it collaborates with persons X, Y and Z,

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

2015-01-19 Thread Margarita Manterola
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 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

2015-01-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org [2015-01-19 19:04 +0100]: The point is: what about those who have a non-sprint plan? So let's avoid the term sprints and call it group meetings? If you really do want to come to DebConf to work on your own packages or your own pet project, then

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

2015-01-19 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:15:27PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: 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

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

2015-01-19 Thread Carl Karsten
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: * Schedule rooms and days for the sprints (scheduling team). We don't really have rooms available to us during DebCamp. Maybe we can rent some, if we are not too late and budget permits, but in general, I

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

2015-01-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: For DebConf15 we would like to try something new regarding DebCamp. Instead of asking each person to come up with a DebCamp plan, we'd like to make a Call for Sprints together with the Call for Talks,

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

2015-01-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
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 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

2015-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com [2015-01-18 17:58 +0100]: What we would need to do: * Publish the call for sprints and coordinate submissions (content team). * Schedule rooms and days for the sprints (scheduling team). We don't really have rooms available to us