Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy

2014-07-10 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:49:10AM -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the code of conduct > support team members may [...] expel the participant from the > conference with no refund for repeat or serious offense. Something I've been wonderin

Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy

2014-07-10 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:51:21PM -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > >> > >> Sexual language and imagery are a common concern. If there are other > >> types of concerns people think are worth listing, t

Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy

2014-07-10 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:08:52PM -0400, Hashem Nasarat wrote: > Marina, > Thank you for working on this! > > > Christophe, > Many of the concerns you brought up have been responded to in the > following FAQ: > http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#cocfaqnegative > http:/

Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy

2014-07-07 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:13:53AM -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > > In my mind, there is not much point in talking about a anti-harassment > > policy if it's not going to be enforced. > > "

Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy

2014-07-07 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:44:15AM -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Christophe Fergeau > wrote: > > Hey Marina, > > > > Thanks for coming up with this detailed policy. > > > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 01:08:07AM -0400, Mari

Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy

2014-07-05 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey Marina, Thanks for coming up with this detailed policy. On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 01:08:07AM -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Having a specific and actionable anti-harassment policy is important > for making the conference a safer space for everyone. Fwiw, I disagree with the wording, esp

[guadec-list] Potential keynoters

2014-05-20 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, Some keynoters could be - Roberto di Cosmo (" Roberto Di Cosmo is a computer scientist and director of IRILL, the Innovation and research initiative for free software.") - Tariq Krim ("Tariq Krim is a French digital entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and currently the founder and CEO of Jo

[guadec-list] Potential keynoters

2014-05-20 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, Some keynoters could be - Roberto di Cosmo (" Roberto Di Cosmo is a computer scientist and director of IRILL, the Innovation and research initiative for free software.") - Tariq Krim ("Tariq Krim is a French digital entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and currently the founder and CEO of Jo

[guadec-list] Invoice for GUADEC accommodation?

2012-09-11 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, During GUADEC I filled the paper form to ask for an invoice for GUADEC accommodation as the tool to request it online didn't work for me. However, I still haven't received any invoice, is that expected? I'm being asked for it, hence this request :) Thanks, Christophe ___

Re: [guadec-list] Proposal of lightning talks for silver sponsors

2012-07-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2012/7/16 Vincent Untz : > I would prefer if we find some last-minute lightning talk during the > event itself. > > What do others think? That was my initial suggestion as well during an IRC discussion a while ago. Christophe ___ guadec-list mailing lis

Re: [guadec-list] [Reminder] GUADEC committee meeting on 12 March 2012 UTC 16:00

2012-03-11 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey William, 2012/3/10 William from Texas : > The next GUADEC committee meeting as we agreed will be on Monday, 12 > March, at 16:00 UTC. Other time zones include: > > • 08:00 Los Angeles/San Francisco > • 11:00 Boston/Montreal/New York Due to DST changes in the US this Sunday (March 11th), 16.00

Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2012 Sponsor Perks

2011-11-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, 2011/11/22 Dave Neary : > > In general, I think it's important to set the expectation that GUADEC > attendance is not free, but that we will never turn anyone away for > financial reasons. Perhaps a "suggested contribution" similar to voluntary > (but heavily encouraged) entrance fees to muse

Re: [guadec-list] Organizing GUADEC 2012

2011-09-21 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, 2011/9/21 Bob Murphy : > I'm very interested in that; 14:00 UTC is > a little early for me (7 AM California time), and it will change to 6 AM for > me on 6 November. So please let me know if a later time, such as 16:00 UTC, > would be a problem for you. 16:00 UTC is better for me than 14:00

Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC committee Meeting Time

2011-06-01 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2011/6/1 Emily Chen : > So we have several options for the first IRC meeting: > 1. June 6 Mon UTC 14:00 > 2. June 8 Wed UTC 14:00 > 3. June 9 Thu UTC 14:00 > > We skip the Tuesday and Friday. (Tuesday is the board meeting time and > Friday is close to weekend. ) > > Which options works for you? Or

Re: [guadec-list] Volunteers needed for heralding

2010-07-13 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/7/13 Philip Withnall : > > Ideally we should have a few more heralds than this, or rooms are going > to be left unheralded (unless the current heralds run four shifts each, > which is asking a bit much). Yep, you'll probably be able to trick some people into heralding during GUADEC by asking

Re: [guadec-list] Volunteers needed for heralding

2010-07-12 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/7/9 Philip Withnall : > GUADEC’s approaching fast, and we’re looking for volunteers to act as > heralds in each room; announcing each speaker, keeping time, ensuring > that the speaker has what they need, and helping out with the changeover > between speakers. How is the look for heralds goin

Re: [guadec-list] Volunteers needed for heralding

2010-07-12 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, 2010/7/9 Philip Withnall : > GUADEC’s approaching fast, and we’re looking for volunteers to act as > heralds in each room; announcing each speaker, keeping time, ensuring > that the speaker has what they need, and helping out with the changeover > between speakers. This is not directly relate

Re: [guadec-list] Speaking Details

2010-07-12 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, 2010/7/13 Reinout van Schouwen : > Op maandag 12-07-2010 om 15:10 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Shaun > McCance: >> I see on the schedule that speaking slots are 45 minutes >> each, but there's no scheduled transition time between >> presentations. Are there any guidelines about how long >> we

Re: [guadec-list] Getting the guadec schedule online

2010-05-31 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, 2010/5/31 Koen Martens : > > The names i've been using are 'Aula', 'C1' and 'C2'. Not very creative > either :) As said on IRC, I like Aula. Rubenv suggested using Rupert and Wilbert (GNOME's mascots) which gives us 3 names which I like :) Otherwise, I like Een and Twee for the 2 small rooms

Re: [guadec-list] Getting the guadec schedule online

2010-05-30 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, 2010/5/30 William from Texas : > Program - General overview of talk schedule > http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/program > > Schedule - Links to presentation abstracts > http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/schedule > Looking at these links, I just realize

Re: [guadec-list] Getting the guadec schedule online

2010-05-30 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey William, 2010/5/30 William from Texas : > I have put up content on both the Program and Schedule pages. > Thanks a lot for doing that, this looks great! > I think the most effective presentation would be to combine the two, but I > can't see this as an automation in OCS. Yep, this would be

[guadec-list] Typo on GUADEC website

2010-05-21 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, I looked at the call for lightning talk today, and noticed that "lightning" was mispelt "lightening" on http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/index/announcement/view/8 , can someone fix that? Thanks, Christophe ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list

Re: [guadec-list] Fwd: Gnome Design-Thinking Workshop and Lightning Talk

2010-05-07 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, 2010/5/7 Mario Gonzalez : > >  My concern is in 60 minutes we can assure 11 or 12 LTs to be > presented (5 minutes each), so if we receive 15 proposals or more, > what can do with them? Put them in the "bench" awaiting for some extra > time or some other stuff? I had in mind of having a full

Re: [guadec-list] Lightning Talks organization

2010-04-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/4/23 Reinout van Schouwen : > Op woensdag 21-04-2010 om 16:29 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Koen > Martens: > >> I don't see the need for some other storage repository then, we can just >> create a folder to contain the (messages with attached the) selected slides >> and move all other clutter

Re: [guadec-list] Lightning Talks organization

2010-04-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/4/21 Mario Gonzalez : > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Koen Martens wrote: >>> >>>  I think people must sent their PDFs to the "recipient" as email >>> attachments, then, sooner than later the "recipient" must sync them to >>> some central repository (wiki or another repo). >> >> Ok, so we

Re: [guadec-list] BoFs (was Re: Talk Schedule)

2010-04-20 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey! 2010/4/20 Dave Neary : > Christophe Fergeau wrote: >> How will it be organized? Just a wiki page with slots and people >> putting their BoF sessions on it? Was there any public announcement >> about this room? > > This sounds good to me. A table with the room names

Re: [guadec-list] Lightning Talks organization

2010-04-19 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/4/19 Mario Gonzalez : > >  I'm not a local guy but I would like to be that recipient if you > haven't got a reason to decline me. > > p.s: I'll propose a LT as well. Great, someone fell into my trap :) The fact that you are not local is not important at all as long as you have internet access

[guadec-list] BoFs (was Re: Talk Schedule)

2010-04-19 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, 2010/4/7 Koen Martens : > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:45:18PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: >> While looking at the other years schedules, there were some BOF in the >> main schedule, I think this year there will be a dedicated room for >> that? > > Indeed. How w

Re: [guadec-list] Lightning Talks organization

2010-04-19 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/4/18 Christophe Fergeau : > > Any thoughts on how we should handle this ? (there were a few > suggestions in other threads iirc, would be worth grouping everything > in that one if you don't mind repeating what you already said :) It seems the previous years, it was pretty

[guadec-list] Lightning Talks organization

2010-04-17 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, Now that the paper selection is done, I think we need to have something to say about lightning talks. Do we send a call for lightning talks and make some selection for maybe half of the slots? Or do we let it people organize themselves using a wiki? What is the deadline for talks then? etc etc

Re: [guadec-list] Mail templates for talk selection ?

2010-04-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/4/16 Christophe Fergeau : > Using the template already available in OCS and a mail that was sent > to me privately, I came up with this: And for the "paper out" mail, I just wrote this: "XX Thanks for your talk proposal Y. However, due to the amount of great

Re: [guadec-list] Mail templates for talk selection ?

2010-04-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hello, 2010/4/15 Christophe Fergeau : > We (the paper committee) nearly finalized the list of > accepted/rejected talks today, we'll start notifying the speakers > tomorrow. I was wondering if there were any templates from the > previous years that could be reused or if we'

Re: [guadec-list] Mail templates for talk selection ?

2010-04-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2010/4/15 Dave Neary : > > I guess I could dig out the rejection email I sent in the past... I'm > sure that all of us have acceptance & rejection mails lying around, no? :) I don't :) So if anyone could dig such emails, that would be really helpful, I'd like to get these out tonight. Thanks, Ch

[guadec-list] Mail templates for talk selection ?

2010-04-15 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, We (the paper committee) nearly finalized the list of accepted/rejected talks today, we'll start notifying the speakers tomorrow. I was wondering if there were any templates from the previous years that could be reused or if we'd have to come up with something? Thanks, Christophe ___

Re: [guadec-list] Talk Schedule

2010-04-10 Thread Christophe Fergeau
[guadec-list wasn't original CC'ed, I put the integral content of the initial email at the end of this email] Hi, 2010/4/6 Christophe Fergeau : > If we put these plenary sessions 9.00-10.00 every morning and > 14.00-15.00 every evening, and have the lunch break at 13.00-14.00,

[guadec-list] Delay in GUADEC talk selection

2010-04-10 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, Selected talks for GUADEC should have been announced today (April 10th). Unfortunately, we are a bit late, this mail is to announce that the notifications about accepted papers will be sent on Friday, April 16th. Sorry for the delay, Christophe __

Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2010, call for papers

2010-03-09 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, > The GUADEC Call for Participation has the following time line: > > * Friday, March 19th: Deadline for submission of abstracts > > * Friday, April 10th: Notification of speakers > > Please submit your proposal before March 20th through [1]the > online paper submission system. Pap