Re: [Ghm-discuss] flattr donations

2012-04-05 Thread John Darrington
I tend to agree with Neal. I don't in principle object to donating, but I'd rather not do it through flattr (although I have no better suggestion for online donations), and I always ask questions before I donate to such causes. For example: * I really would like to know who or what is admin

Re: [Ghm-discuss] flattr donations

2012-04-06 Thread John Darrington
Thanks very much for the information, John. To whoever is maintaining the web page: If this information was copied there, I think there would be a lot more people you would consider donating. J' On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 09:43:41PM -0400, John Sullivan wrote: John Darrington w

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012

2012-06-02 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:46:24PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: Hi, In the past, each GHM has had a main topic. Last year the main topic was extensibility, in 2010, it was decentralized systems (if I recall correctly). My recollection is that the main topic was really

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012

2012-06-06 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:25:29AM +0200, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Court??s) writes: > For instance, one can implement a file system, restart it when it > crashes (instead of rebooting), debug it with gdb, and be blissfully > ignorant of the OS innard

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012

2012-06-07 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 04:34:28PM -0400, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: Linux is GPLv2, and Linus Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are strongly against v3. GPLv2 is behind a serious deficiency in copyleft protection with regards to TiVo-ization, and hardware makers are already creating

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Where are you people staying?

2012-06-27 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:36:12PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hi! Great, I'm available. Let's say I'll book tomorrow in the afternoon, so that everybody has time to answer. Shall we get a two-bed room, or something bigger? Is anybody else interested? I'm in. J'

[Ghm-discuss] GHM Tasks feedback

2012-09-12 Thread John Darrington
Some of you may recall, that one of the Tasks which, at the GHM in Dusseldorf, I was asked to do was to ping Luke Leighton to see if he was interested in working on a project to develop a mobile GNU platform. I have done that, and Luke is very enthusiastic about the idea. The only trouble is, t

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Meetup at FOSDEM?

2013-01-10 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 05:54:37PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hello! Any plan to meet during FOSDEM [0]? The tradition has been to meet for dinner on Friday evening, to start with, and usually somebody else would come up with a good idea for a restaurant. A

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Meetup at FOSDEM?

2013-01-30 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 05:54:37PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hello! Any plan to meet during FOSDEM [0]? The tradition has been to meet for dinner on Friday evening, to start with, and usually somebody else would come up with a good idea for a restaurant. A

Re: [Ghm-discuss] The FOSDEM meeting was fun

2013-02-04 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:58:50PM +0100, Luca Saiu wrote: I didn't manage to greet most of the GNU friends I met at FOSDEM before leaving. I just wanted to thank you for your company, and the good time. Ditto. I hope we can meet at a GHM (somewhere) where the pace is not so

Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] GHM 2013

2013-02-04 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:29:23AM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: At Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:28:25 +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > As it happens no one volunteered so far for organising the GNU Hackers > Meeting this year. If someone wants to volunteer as the local organizer

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2013

2013-03-06 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:29:23AM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: Hi, At Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:28:25 +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > As it happens no one volunteered so far for organising the GNU Hackers > Meeting this year. If someone wants to volunteer as the local

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2013: topics and talks

2013-04-12 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:55:15AM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: At Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:59:44 +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > Luca Saiu skribis: > > I think it would be nice to have a tentative "program" very early, which > > might help attract more people, bringing in

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2013: topics and talks

2013-04-12 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > But the problem is, we never decide where, when or even *if* the GHM takes place > until rather shortly before the event. Consequently most people cannot make any > definite plans. That's not

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2013: topics and talks

2013-04-13 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 04:07:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: "Neal H. Walfield" skribis: > At Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:16:12 +0200, > John Darrington wrote: [...] >> But the problem is, we never decide where, when or even *if

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Let's make it official: choose the date

2013-05-15 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:08:45PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: We would also like to know how many people are likely to attend. So, if you're seriously considering this, please answer. We'll set up official "Registration" information later, even if I'd like to keep this side of

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Newcomer

2013-07-01 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 04:10:58PM +0200, Michael Isberg wrote: Hi, I have been using GNU/Linux for a couple of years but I haven't made any contributions yet due to lack of competence and time. I would with the help of others like to create a free SCADA system,

[Ghm-discuss] Keysigning?

2013-07-16 Thread John Darrington
It would be good to exchange PGP key signatures with other delegates. I don't know how many people are expected to attend, but if there are many, then it might be necessary to schedule a dreaded "ceremony". Has anyone thought about this? J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8

[Ghm-discuss] Accommodation

2013-07-16 Thread John Darrington
What are other people doing for accommodation? Anyone want to share a room? J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM t-shirts?

2013-07-25 Thread John Darrington
Will the T shirt have a blinking cursor? On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 08:10:04PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: On 2013-07-25 at 20:07, Luca Saiu wrote: > On 2013-07-25 at 12:47, Luca Saiu wrote: > >> No promises yet, but we're considering having some custom t-shirts made >> fo

Re: [Ghm-discuss] T-shirt order

2013-07-26 Thread John Darrington
I won't be buying a T-Shirt, but I'll gladly donate 10 EUR to the GHM expenses fund. J' On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:27:08PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hello. After less than 24 hours since announcing the design (http://ageinghacker.net/ghm-scratch/banner-t-shirt ), I have reques

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Will you participate

2013-08-13 Thread John Darrington
I didn't know there were "official dinner events". Last time we just got pleasantly inebriated at the pub. When are they and how much? J' On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:36:45PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hello. We'd like to have a rough idea about how many people will attend the o

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Will you participate

2013-08-13 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:49:56PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: On 2013-08-13 at 19:56, John Darrington wrote: > Last time we just got pleasantly inebriated at the pub. > > When are they and how much? Friday and Saturday evening. I've asked sugges

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Accommodation

2013-08-15 Thread John Darrington
Is anything happening about this or should I think about booking my own accommodation? J' On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:43:53PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: What are other people doing for accommodation? Anyone want to share a room? The Ooops hostel (listed

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Starting early: GHM 2014

2013-08-16 Thread John Darrington
I'm glad that GHM 2014 is being thought about. I'm also however not entirely happy with merging it into another event. Perhaps it would be possible to hold GHM immediately before (or after) the Libre Software Meeting? J' On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:27:48AM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hello every

Re: [Ghm-discuss] A visit to the Paris astronomic observatory?

2013-08-18 Thread John Darrington
I'd be interested. I could manage Thurs, Fri or Saturday xx On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:35:03PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hello. Alain Coulais, from the GNU Data Language project, has kindly proposed to lead us to a visit to the Paris observatory (http://www.obspm.fr/?lang

[Ghm-discuss] Oops Hotel Paris

2013-08-31 Thread John Darrington
Anyone who stayed at the Ooops hotel last week, could you send me a quick email. Thanks. John -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-09-06 Thread John Darrington
I don't do linkedin, facebook or twitter. But you are welcome to contact me about technical or other matters which you want to share. J' On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:20:05AM +, Michael Isberg wrote: LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Saturday 21 September: GNU get-together in France at the 30th anniversary party

2013-09-09 Thread John Darrington
As I have prior engagements, unfortunately I wont be able to attend. J' On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:24:17PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hello. As you may know, the good people from April are organizing an event to celebrate GNU's 30th anniversary near Paris, France. Don't let the

Re: [Ghm-discuss] 30th anniversary t-shirt

2013-09-11 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 07:18:24PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: On 2013-09-11 at 14:16, aether...@es.gnu.org wrote: > Simply put the design by Luca in the back and do it in a reasonable > quality :-) Thank you very much for your appreciation Juan, but you should notice

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2014 [Was: Re: 30th anniversary t-shirt]

2013-09-11 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:20:42PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: On 2013-09-11 at 20:54, John Darrington wrote: > Maybe it was a bit premature then for me to have started on the desidn for GHM 2014 ... You have one year :-). Actually I really like your logo. Have

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2014

2013-10-12 Thread John Darrington
As some of you are aware, we have started arrangements for GHM 2014. To that end, I have put together a web-page : http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2014 Much of the information I copied from last years' page. There are two things I'd like confirmation on: 1. There is a link to Donations page on Flattr.

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Broken link

2013-10-12 Thread John Darrington
I have corrected it. Thanks for pointing this out. J' On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 05:39:15PM +0200, Mekeor Melire wrote: Hi. On http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2014/munich/ghm.html, there's a broken link in the (last) section called "Thanks". There's a link to http://www.tum.org/

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2014 Registrations Open

2013-11-20 Thread John Darrington
Registrations and presentation proposals for the GNU Hackers' Meeting 2014 are now open. The Gnu Hackers' Meeting takes place over two full days in the summer of 2014 in Munich, Germany. The meeting comprises informal (but moderated) presentations from coordinators and developers of GNU project

[Ghm-discuss] GNU Hackers' Meeting, 2014

2014-02-02 Thread John Darrington
It is still 6 months away, however preparations for GHM 2014 are underway. This year's Gnu Hackers' Meeting takes place in Munich, Germany between 15 and 17 August. At GHM you can expect to meet many of the GNU developers, as well as others who have an active interest in the GNU Operating System

[Ghm-discuss] GNU Hackers' Meeting 2014

2014-06-10 Thread John Darrington
Hello everyone, GHM 2014 is just over 2 months away. Registrations have been steadily comming in. However there are a number of people who have told me informally, that they intend to come, however have not yet registered. So that we can plan the venue etc, if you want to come, please regis

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GNU Hackers' Meeting 2014

2014-06-10 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:01:46PM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >GHM is a great opportunity to meet in person, developers involved >behind the scenes of GNU and other free software projects. I have >started a list of people who are attending at >http://ghm.cellform.com/delegates.

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Translation of gnu.org/ghm/ in German

2014-08-01 Thread John Darrington
Thanks for the offer, but as the conference language is English, I don't think the information on the ghm pages are going to be of use to anyone who cannot read the English pages. J' On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:07:23PM +0200, joeko wrote: Hello, I am the coordinator of the GNU Ge

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Last chance to participate in keysigning

2014-08-09 Thread John Darrington
I can confirm, that your key is in the ring. On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 09:44:41PM +0200, b...@gnu.org wrote: Hi, I didn't receive any confirmation that my key was taken into account (I sent it a while ago now), and you mention that the keyring will be finalized after the Au

Re: [Ghm-discuss] The posh talk does not complain with the policy

2014-08-12 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 05:45:33AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Yes, that's all blurry and irrational, but that makes sense, for human relations; they're not programs with non-ambiguous meaning. Then it would be simpler, more rational and less blurry, to simply wri

Re: [Ghm-discuss] The posh talk does not complain with the policy

2014-08-12 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:40:41PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: I can sympathize with the rejection of institutionalized political correctness that (I think) Jos?s message is about. After all, the GHM audience is small and should be able to address problems through

[Ghm-discuss] Public Transport in Munich

2014-08-12 Thread John Darrington
I just received the following information from the locals: From the airport one would normally take the bus 690 this line is not served on public holidays.

Re: [Ghm-discuss] The posh talk does not complain with the policy

2014-08-14 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:15:50PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: Agreed. However having a policy that forbids _any_ humor that may be "offensive" to _anyone_ (as it happens with the current policy) to prevent a problem that never happened in the whole history of the event

Re: [Ghm-discuss] The address and floor of GHM

2014-08-17 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 06:02:58PM +0200, David Arroyo Men??ndez wrote: Krista Grothoff writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Unfortunately, Arcisstrasse is in the center of Munich. We are in > Garching, which is outside the city to the n

[Ghm-discuss] policy updated.

2014-08-18 Thread John Darrington
I have updated the GHM web page with the revised wording which we agreed to on Sunday. I hope that closes this issue. -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signa

Re: [Ghm-discuss] How to your keys ?

2014-08-20 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:44:41AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: so why then all these emails that say "Your signed PGP key" ? I have no idea. I don't use this overly complicated scheme of operation, nor do I know why people suggest it. Apparantly some people conside

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GNU Hackers Meeting talk on-line

2014-10-12 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:47:41AM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: The video of my talk at the 2014 GHM is now online: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/#talks (Sound is not very good.) This seems to be a recurring problem with GHM videos. Making good quality audio

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Rennes?

2016-05-05 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote: Hi all, I wanted to let you know that we'd be happy to host GHM 2016 in Rennes (Brittany, France, 2h from Paris by train) at Inria this summer. I'm currently thinking August, but September or October

Re: [Ghm-discuss] [GHM] Suggested fixes for the web page footers

2016-06-05 Thread John Darrington
Hello Therese, The GHM "project" is a pseudo-project which has been hacked by many different individuals over the years.Much of the information there is for historical interest. Assuming that your changes only affect the formatting and not the content, I don't think anyone will object if you

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM in China

2016-07-01 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 07:14:21PM +0800, ? - Xu Jizhe wrote: Dear organizers of GHM, This is Xu Jizhe, from Beijing, China, the free software activist in China. And I held a lot free software events before, It's cool to hold the GHM in China, I'd like to do this,

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Attending without having registered

2016-07-03 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 09:32:07PM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote: 3) if you can show that you bought tickets, you can use the non-EU option and still have food Does the "United" Kingdom now fall under the non-EU option? J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted emai

[Ghm-discuss] My idea for GHM 2017

2016-09-21 Thread John Darrington
For various reasons I never made it to GHM this year, but I hear that it was a very successful event.Here is my suggestion for 2107: In Europe there are various "Gruppenunterkunft" hostels - places which have basic accommodation plus a seminar room for smallish conferences. Why don't we hire

Re: [Ghm-discuss] My idea for GHM 2017

2016-09-21 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Darshit Shah wrote: Last I heard, we were looking into the Linux Hotel in D??sseldorf for the next GHM. But I'm not sure what happened about it. That was considered some years ago. But for PR reasons we should not hold GNU events at the "Linux

Re: [Ghm-discuss] My idea for GHM 2017

2016-09-23 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 08:59:12AM +, ng0 wrote: Is there a country/region already for the next meeting so I could help locate/gather potential venues and hostels and similar places? I think there has been an implicit assumption that it'll be Western Europe "somewhere". Howe

[Ghm-discuss] Who is interested in GHM 2017 ??

2016-09-25 Thread John Darrington
I have made some tentative enquiries. The biggest issue is going to be that many places are already booked out for 2017. So if it's going to happen, then it needs to be organised fast. So. If you would be willing to pay between 150-180 EUR including food and 3 nights accommodation to attend G

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 wip

2016-10-30 Thread John Darrington
Just a heads up ... I have drawn up a short list on possible venues for GHM 2017, and am looking deeper into the most promising ones. I hope to decide on one very soon and make an annoucement shortly. I'm intending to leave it to others to organise the other aspects of GHM Eg: Program, itinerar

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 Registrations are now open

2016-12-08 Thread John Darrington
Registration for GHM 2017 is now open. The event takes place 25-27 August 2017 in the Knuellwald region of Germany. Registration is essential and includes meals and accommodation. Space is finite so early registration is encouraged. Note: Currently the programme is undefined. Volunteers to

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 Registrations are now open

2016-12-10 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:40:26PM +, ng0 wrote: John Darrington writes: > Registration for GHM 2017 is now open. The event > takes place 25-27 August 2017 in the Knuellwald > region of Germany. Is this Kn??llwald as in region around Kassel, clo

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 update

2017-01-04 Thread John Darrington
Happy New Year to all. Registrations are beginning to trickle in for this year's Gnu Hackers Meeting, which is great news. There are a couple of issues which I wanted to air on this list: Currently, so far as I'm aware, nobody is organising the programme, or other tasks such as the audio/video

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 Update

2017-04-17 Thread John Darrington
It is less that 2 months away from the point where we have to either confirm or cancel GHM 2017. Right now, we don't quite have enough confirmed registrations to proceed. Previous experience of Gnu events have shown that many people commit themselves right at the last possible moment. Unfortuna

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 Update

2017-04-20 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 08:52:50PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: John Darrington writes: > Less urgently, there are a number of tasks for which we need > volunteers. For example, "master of ceremonies", co-ordination of > car-pooling, aud

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 is now full!

2017-05-17 Thread John Darrington
Following my email earlier this week, there has been a flurry of registrations, and in fact, we are now technically overbooked - that is to say there are more people registered than the hotel has capacity. Having said that, not all people have paid and judging by some of the things written in the

Re: [Ghm-discuss] German orthography

2017-05-27 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 01:55:08PM +0300, Mikko Viinam??ki wrote: Achtung! I believe the word gem??tlichkeit on this page https://www.gnu.org/ghm/upcoming.html should be capitalized. Well spotted! For that, you'll get a voucher for a free Bratwurst when you register for GHM. J'

[Ghm-discuss] GHM keysigning

2017-08-02 Thread John Darrington
It's now the month when GHM 2017 takes place! A number of people have been writing to ghm-reg asking about the programme. Eg, when does it start/finish? and what talks happen when? For these questions please contact Alex Sassmannhausen (who I think is reading this list). The extent of my orga

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Bringing in Hacker's Equipment ?

2017-08-03 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:27:26PM +0200, Tim R?hsen wrote: Or is it all more about sitting and chatting and listing to talks and drinking ? I think that's about the size of it! In case we have fine weather it would be great if someone takes the initiative to organise some kind of

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM keysigning

2017-08-12 Thread John Darrington
A few more people have added their names to the list for keysigning, and there were a few corrections. The current list is at http://darrington.wattle.id.au/keys_20170812.txt Please check that yours is correct. Send me any additions or corrections. The list must be finalised before people trave

[Ghm-discuss] KeySigning - final list

2017-08-19 Thread John Darrington
The revised and final list is on line at http://darrington.wattle.id.au/keys_20170819.txt This is the final list and no more keys will be added or changed. For those who are new to the procedure here is what you should do to get your key signed. Before you depart for GHM --

[Ghm-discuss] GHM - Some final hints.

2017-08-22 Thread John Darrington
Hello everyone. Some final words before GHM. 1. There is an updated programme at https://www.gnu.org/ghm/programme.html 2. Don't forget that if you are taking the "Anruefsammeltaxi from the Marlsfeld railway station this must be booked 30 minutes in advance. I checked the website today,

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2018: processing payments

2017-08-29 Thread John Darrington
A few things to bear in mind: 1. If we are in effect "sharing" a bank account with another organisation, then it does mean that payees must be very careful what they put in the comment fields, so that the account holder knows to whom the money belongs. Not everyone is careful about doing this -

[Ghm-discuss] Feedback GHM 2017

2017-08-29 Thread John Darrington
I'd like to extend a big "thank you" to all those people who participated in GHM 2017. It would be great if you would all do one last thing and give use your feedback about the event. To that end I have set up two web pages: https://www.gnu.org/ghm/blog.html where you can send general free for

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Joining GHM Discuss

2017-08-30 Thread John Darrington
Hi Christopher, Glad you managed to subscribe. Posting mail encoded in HTML however is frowned upon (by me at any rate). Can you set your MUA to send in plain text? J' On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:38:20PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: head>div style=font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Keysigning Party - Missing Keys

2017-09-06 Thread John Darrington
I just haven't got around to it yet. I'll do it in the next few days. J' On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:44:01PM +0200, Darshit Shah wrote: Hi, At the last GHM we had a keysigning party where about 8-10 of us participated in exchanging keys and cross signing them. Howe

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Keysigning Party - Missing Keys

2017-09-09 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:44:01PM +0200, Darshit Shah wrote: I'd like to ask everyone else that participated if there was any trouble with signing my keys or sending them back to me? Actually there is: pius gives me the error message: There was a problem talking to the mail server (

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2017 presentations: permission to publish your videos and slides

2017-09-11 Thread John Darrington
Thanks Luca, You're welcome to publish mine under CC_SA 4.0 (Note to those organising the talks for 2018: Get this permisison when the speakers submit thier talks.) J' On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 03:13:26PM +0200, Luca Saiu wrote: Hello. Video presentations from the last GHM w

Re: [Ghm-discuss] First GHM 2018 Organizing Meeting

2017-09-11 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 04:44:48PM +0200, Catonano wrote: Is the 15th on line gathering a final deadline for a proposal for a venue in Apulia ? Because I'm talking to some people and they all are asking for more time, at least until the beginning of october for givin

Re: [Ghm-discuss] First GHM 2018 Organizing Meeting

2017-09-13 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 09:51:34PM +0200, Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen wrote: On 13 September 2017 21:29:46 CEST, Alex Sassmannshausen >The meeting will take place on Friday 15 September at 20h Central >European Summer Time (22h UTC) in the #ghm channel on Freenode.

[Ghm-discuss] GHM 2018

2017-09-18 Thread John Darrington
"Bids" are now being accepted for hosting GHM 2018. If you know of somewhere in your region where we could possibly hold the meeting, and you are willing to help organise it, please send a message to ghm-plann...@gnu.org J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key I

Re: [Ghm-discuss] First GHM 2018 Organizing Meeting

2017-09-26 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 07:44:30PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Alex, > The first organising meeting just finished. Attached you should find > the meeting notes (org format). Don't hesitate to respond if you have > questions / need clarifications. Tha

Re: [Ghm-discuss] apologies

2017-11-20 Thread John Darrington
Well thanks for trying, anyway. Does anyone else have any suggestions? So far we have had only one proposal, and IMO it is not entirely appropriate. It would be good to get some more ideas. J' On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:42:12PM +0100, Catonano wrote: I apologize for my performance in se

Re: [Ghm-discuss] apologies

2017-11-23 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:55:31AM +0100, Ander Juaristi wrote: Wow, my proposal has received better critique than I would have expected! I'll start getting in touch with hotels, hostels, etc. in the area and see what feedback I get. I'll keep you posted. Please do. As

Re: [Ghm-discuss] apologies

2017-12-06 Thread John Darrington
I agree that we should in the future try to arrange a GHM outside of Europe. Would you like to propose something? J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyserve

[Ghm-discuss] Possible GHM 2018 accommodation

2017-12-07 Thread John Darrington
I had a brief look at the list and the websites. IMO these 3 seem like possibilities: https://www.downtownriverhostel.es/en/ http://www.urbanhousesansebastian.com/ https://www.aroominthecity.eu/ So perhaps if you're in the region you could check them out. Most of the others are a bit too up-ma

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Possible GHM 2018 accommodation

2017-12-08 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:04:20AM +0100, Ander Juaristi wrote: This is what I shall do once I get back home next week: - Try reaching those places by phone, and get some exact figures, like price, etc. - Try harder looking for more similar places in the area, so w

Re: [Ghm-discuss] apologies

2017-12-12 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:57:21AM -0200, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva wrote: Maybe it is a bit too early now but I could propose something for 2019. Rio de Janeiro (where I live now) seems to be an obvious choice (and organizing as a local makes things much easier) but of course

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM Ruhrarea? GHM multiple regions?

2017-12-13 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:43:21AM +, ng0 wrote: How many times did we have cities in NRW (Germany) in the past years? We once held GHM in Dusseldorf. I could arrange something at the hackerspace and social community center it is located in (Soziales Zentrum Bochum) or so

Re: [Ghm-discuss] apologies

2018-05-01 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 05:23:08PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Matthias, > this was the last message I've received concerning GHM 2018. > Was it the last one or is the list not working vor me? Indeed, this seems to have been the last message. > I

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GNU Hacker's Meeting 2019 - Madrid

2018-12-17 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 09:46:38AM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: a) During the last week of July. b) During the first week of September. Which one you think is better? Both are equally good for me. As for the duration of the event, I was thinking abou

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Booking transport etc for GHM...

2019-04-16 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:43:25AM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: I hesitate to book expensive flights / hotel before it is sure that GHM really takes place. Is it possible to give us a note here when enough registrations have been made ? I will send

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM in India

2019-06-24 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 08:47:52AM +0530, sri...@ninthfloor.org wrote: Im interested in helping them organize one in India. Let me know how I can help you. There are several aspects to organising GHM. 1. You need to find an auditorium - it need not be fancy, but somewhere with an over

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM in India

2019-06-24 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:14:45AM +0530, Srikar Arepalli wrote: Hi All, I'm Srikar volunteering for FSF-India as Student coordinator, also Alumni lead of VGLUG https://vnrvjietglug.wordpress.com/ . VGLUG stands for VNR GNU/Linux Users Group, aka, Swatantra Software Sangha

Re: [Ghm-discuss] Dinner on Tuesday, 3rd Sept

2019-09-02 Thread John Darrington
My flight doesn't arrive until 22:00 so it's probably going to be too late for Dinner. :( On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:32:11AM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: Is anyone arriving in Madrid on Tuesday? I arrive around 18:30 at MAD and would like to meet with whoever is availabl

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2020 First location proposals

2019-09-15 Thread John Darrington
Personally, I'm happy to pay the higher price for the Vielank place. However I know that there are people who are interested in GHM and have very limited disposable income, so I think we should try to keep costs as low as possible. On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Tim R??hsen wrote:

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2020 CCC or Dock Europe location

2019-09-30 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:44:55PM +0200, Tim R??hsen wrote: Another opportunity would be in the same building, at https://www.dock-europe.net/. These offer seminar rooms and even have 34 beds in 2/3/4 beds a room (no single bed rooms). (including 7% or 19% VAT - 14

Re: [Ghm-discuss] GHM 2020 CCC or Dock Europe location

2019-09-30 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 03:35:45PM +0200, Tim R??hsen wrote: > This dock-europe place sounds very promising. It's even centrally located! > Tim, as you're in the area, I suggest that you check it out. > > Personally, I think there is a greater sense of community if everyo

Re: GHM 2020: Swiss edition

2019-11-11 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:35:09PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: Given that there seems to be some consensus that we want to have more GNU Hacker Meetings, I'm offering to organize a meeting January 10-12 at Mont Soleil in Switzerland. The plan is to do this on a

Re: GHM 2020: Swiss edition

2019-11-11 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 01:51:21PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: On 11/11/19 1:36 PM, John Darrington wrote: > But like Jose says, I think Tim is about to announce arrangements for the > regular annual GHM. I think it's great that people are organising more >

Re: GHM Swiss Edition: Finances

2020-01-22 Thread John Darrington
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Tim R??hsen wrote: Thanks for offer helping out GHM budget. Hopefully, we won't have any expenses (room + projector are a free offer by CCC Hamburg). Maybe if something gets broken. Anyways, thank you for organizing GHM

Re: Cancelling GHM 2020 (Hamburg) !?

2020-03-19 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 04:55:40PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: due to Covid-19 pandemic we should cancel (physical) GHM 2020. Of course we could wait some more weeks to see how everything works out, but I personally don't see any evidence for a cal

Re: GHM 2022 in October at İzmir, Turkey

2022-01-23 Thread John Darrington
Thumbs up to Luca and Ege, Obviously the biggest question mark with any kind of travel at the moment is COVID. Who knows whether one will be allowed to enter Turkey in October, and whether one will be allowed to return home afterwards. So it will, I think, be necessary to very closely keep an ey

Re: [CFP] Binary T00ls Summit 2022

2022-02-03 Thread John Darrington
Is this web conferencing system runnable using 100% free software (including the Javascript, if any is necessary)? J' On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 08:17:42PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: The venue of the event will be an instance of the Big Blue Button web conferencing system, access

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