Re: [Debconf-team] Our Press Release
Here is the current version: http://whiteboard.debian.net/dc10pressrelease.wb Please feel free to give us (translators) a go when things are completely frozen so that we can start working on the translations. Just in case it could help: attached is a translated French version of the PR (as it was on 27th midnight, or so). I also attach the original version I translated from, so if that French version is ever to be used, please first diff -u the English version that's sent and my English version and report back to meso that I can adapt the translation in case changes were made. I hope I'm clear in my explanations..:-). POUR PUBLICATION IMMÉDIATE. Contact : Debian Developer Conference Press Team Contact: pr...@debconf.org Contacts locaux : Brian Gupta 646-374-8886 Gabriella Coleman 773-426-3054 Objet: Alerte media : POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS AUX USA - - Dixième conférence annuelle des développeurs Debian - La conférence des développeurs de la plus importante distribution GNU/Linux du monde aura lieu à l'Université de Columbia à New-York City du 1er au 7 août. New York, NY, 27 juillet 2010//Le projet Debian, l'équipe qui développe le système d'exploitation Debian GNU/Linux, vous invite à participer à la prochaine conférence Debian (« DebConf ») qui aura lieu du 1er au 7 août à l'université de Columbia de New York City, en coopération avec le département des sciences de l'information de Columbia. Cette conférence annuelle est la première DebConf à se dérouler aux États-Unis d'Amérique depuis 11 ans que cet événement existe. Cette année, plus de 300 développeurs venant du monde entier, et notamment du Brésil, d'Argentine, de Bosnie, du Mexique, du Canada, d'Europe de l'Ouest, du Japon, de Nouvelle-Zélande, d'Australie, du Vénézuela ou encore de Lettonie, participeront à la conférence. Une présentation plus complète est disponible à l'adresse http://debconf10.debconf.org/ Chaque année, DebConf permet aux contributeurs actuels et aux nouveaux participants au projet, venus du monde entier, de se rencontrer, de partager leur expérience et leurs idées et de mettre en œuvre des contributions collaboratives à Debian, tout en développant les liens sociaux de la communauté. La majorité des coûts d'organisation de la conférence sont couverts par une contribution de nombreuses entreprises qui bénéficient directement de leur soutien à Debian ou aux conférences Debian. Pour la première fois, DebConf sera organisée en sessions qui rassembleront plusieurs présentations sur un thème commun. Les sessions concerneront des thèmes aussi variés que les sciences et les mathématiques, Java, les logiciels destinés aux entreprises, la communauté Debian ou les arts et les media dans Debian. D'autres présentations seront consacrées aux aspects techniques, juridiques et sociaux, animées par une sélection de développeurs Debian ainsi que d'autres personnalités du monde du logiciel libre. Eben Moglen, président du Centre Juridique des Logiciels Libres (« Software Freedom Law Center ») et professeur de droit à l'université de Columbia interviendra pour une présentation plénière le 3 août à 10h du matin. DebConf comporte également une « journée Debian » (Debian Day), qui aura lieu le 1er août. Lors de cette journée, la conférence sera librement accessible à toute personne intéressée par Debian et le logiciel libre. Plusieurs autres conférences seront au programme, avec pour thèmes la promotion des logiciels libres, des discussions sur leur confort d'utilisation ou leur accessibilité ainsi que plusieurs présentations d'introduction au projet ou au système d'exploitation Debian. On trouvera plus d'informations à propos de la journée Debian, y compris son programme détaillé, à l'adresse http://www.debianday.org/. À PROPOS DE DEBIAN ~~ Debian GNU/Linux est un système d'exploitation pour ordinateurs entièrement libre. Plus de trois mille bénévoles du monde entier collaborent à la création et à la maintenance des logiciels et du système Debian. Traduit dans 27 langues et gérant un nombre important d'architectures matérielles, Debian se veut être « le système d'exploitation universel » et est le plus grand projet de développement de logiciel libre du monde. Aux États-Unis d'Amérique, Debian est soutenu par Software in the Public Interest, Inc., une organisation charitable sans but lucratif telle que décrite dans la section 501(c)(3) du code fiscal des USA (« Internal Revenue Code »). À PROPOS DE DEBCONF DebConf est la conférence des développeurs du projet Debian. En plus d'un programme complet de présentations techniques, sociales ou organisationnelles, DebConf fournit aux développeurs, aux contributeurs et à toutes personnes intéressées, une occasion de rencontre et de travail collaboratif interactif. DebConf a eu lieu depuis 2000 en des endroits du monde aussi variés que le Canada, la Finlande ou le Mexique. Plus d'information sur DebConf est disponible sur http://debconf.org/.
Re: [Debconf-team] Volunteering tasks, report back
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:05:52 -0400, Gabriella Coleman bie...@nyu.edu wrote: Finally, we will have a second front desk by the Computer Science Department entrance. Once I find out the hours and other logistics, I will start a wiki for staffing that area. I am somewhat concerned that we won't be able to find enough volunteers for a second front desk. Any suggestions as to how we can recruit even more volunteers would be appreciated. In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone, how about making that into the Merchandise Desk, and allowing people to sell T-shirts and stickers and the like, with the profit largely going to DebConf funds. That gives people who volunteer for the task a reason to be there beyond the absurd-doorman role, since they'll know they're directly benefiting DebConf, and it will give people a reason to go there, so the volunteers will get to meet loads of people and have a chat too. Also, anyone with stuff to sell will be a soft target for volunteering, and can be persuaded to recruit volunteers for us if they don't fancy sitting there themselves. Given that we know how many items we start with, and the selling price, I don't see that there should be much of a problem with trust about handling money, but then again, having done similar stuff with almost total strangers manning the stands at UK Debian conferences, where we'd often take several thousands of pounds, and have it around the place in cash, I'm confident that this is not something we should be concerning ourselves with too much -- this is not a normal crowd of people, and we can take advantage of that. I'm happy to _own_ this problem, if anyone else is paranoid about there being problems -- to the extent that I'll offer to reimburse anyone that feels ripped off at the end of the week out of my own pocket. That's how confident that I am that there will be no problems. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Fwd: [rt.debconf.org #1665] Re: Change in registration status
Hello again, On Jul 13, 2010, at 16:52, Ana Guerrero wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:05:05PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: I apologize sincerely but business concerns have changed the planned travel schedule of my colleague Mikael Söderberg. His schedule is now clouded by a on site customer visit which make take place during DebConf. This change in schedule is not yet confirmed but I'd like to get in touch now to inquire if we can a. receive a refund should he be unable to attend As I told you earlier by IRC, we have already done the rooms reservation. If finally he needs to cancel I see two options: b. change our sponsorship status from 'professional' to 'corporate' (if we cannot receive a refund) I guess you mean changing your attendee status (being the our here your company). Yes, that is possible and we are planning to do a Thank you webpage with all the corporate attendees like this one from DebConf8: http://debconf8.debconf.org/corporate.xhtml.en c. You can stay as professsional attendee and you company become steel sponsor. The logo would appear in the DebConf website with a link to your company's website. I think solution c. is the best for us. I will follow up once I can confirm Mikael's schedule Can I confirm that we'd like to become steel sponsors? Thank you. Jeremiah ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] available video camera
Hello, Does anybody have a video camera that could be borrowed by the video team for some days? Thanks in advance, Tassia. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] available video camera
Tássia Camões wrote: Hello, Does anybody have a video camera that could be borrowed by the video team for some days? I have a consumer MiniDV camera I can bring. I arrive in New York on Saturday evening. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] available video camera
Hi Michael, On Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, Michael Schultheiss wrote: I have a consumer MiniDV camera I can bring. I arrive in New York on Saturday evening. you're staying til the very end, right? if so, please bring it! thanks, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] available video camera
Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Michael, On Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, Michael Schultheiss wrote: I have a consumer MiniDV camera I can bring. I arrive in New York on Saturday evening. you're staying til the very end, right? if so, please bring it! My flight home is early August 8. I'll be sure to bring my camera. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] projector for Sita Sings The Blues
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 17:06 -0400, micah wrote: I found out the deets of the projector, it has VGA and HDMI, its this one: http://www.projectorcentral.com/EIKI-LC-XG250.htm I am going to grab the 1080p compressed one on a gigabit link (archive.org is on internet2 so no caps) and then try to find someone who can play it. I think the aspect ratio will be off, so there will be some black on the top and bottom, but thats fine. m Ok that projector should work fine, its native resolution is 1024x768, so the 720 video played thru VGA should be the easiest way to use its full resolution. It will play the 1080 movie thru HDMI, but then it'll be resampled to 1024x768. Perhaps this is all TMI ;) .hc ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] My reportbacks
Hi, Due to being quite tired, I'm going to give my reportbacks here, tell someone who's attending tonight's orga meeting to read them before heading to the semicircle, and then go to sleep. (Hey, it might help my chances of attending the 9:30am talk slot on Sunday) Banners --- We looked at them, and they look great. One has bronze and higher sponsors, meant for the conference lobby, and the other three have just gold and higher sponsors (== HP), meant for the talk rooms behind the speakers. They are 4 ft by 7 ft and have six grommets around the edges for use in attaching them somewhere. *QUESTION:* Is there an already known best vendor from whom we should rent stands for the banners, or a requirement to use Columbia or a CU-approved vendor? Once I know that, I'm happy to arrange the rental itself. *ACTION ITEM:* Please put the banners in the coffee room (or any other suitable place) tonight during evening cleanup. I do not have access currently. Food (from my perspective, see also Jeremy's reportback) The food tickets for the next couple of days were prepared and look good. Since they weren't announced today until during the dinner period, a few people didn't have theirs, but we dealt with it. We should rapidly assign volunteers for John Jay entrance duties for tomorrow and the non-daytrip weekdays next week, and distribute our food tickets for the rest of the conference to sponsored/professional/corporate attendees ASAP. I got some checks from our bank and paid for the most recent purchase of 75 lunch / 75 dinner food tickets ($2092.50 total). Party stuff --- I advanced Jamie Rollins $180 for party supplies for tomorrow night. He should give me or Michael Schultheiss a receipt and any change when he's made the purchases. Donation box Michael and I determined that we can go ahead and solicit donations as soon as we get the relevant money-handling system in place. Which brings me to: Monetary transactions - I've taken Phil Hands up on his offer and delegated the handling of attendee monetary transactions to him. (Purchases on behalf of DebConf10 and travel reimbursements are still separately done via Michael and me.) This involves things like selling food tickets to pay-per-meal attendees, selling extra t-shirts as previously discussed, selling other merchandise like Safir's stickers, and accepting donations for DebConf/Debian/SPI. He will plan to do things at a merchandise desk behind the CS doors, but he'll tell you the details. Coney Island permit --- The communication timing from the NYC parks department was poor, but the quick version of the result is: I'll head to the parks department in brooklyn tomorrow, they'll get their application, we'll get our permit, and it'll work out. (Convenient for the NYC Resistor party, anyway) IRC bot --- I witnessed it properly work enough to announce someone's arrival in real time. All the stuff above kept me from spending more time on it. Raphael is still welcome to help; I told him once to arrange the necessary access with debconf-admin (via gpg stuff to get him a debconf.org LDAP account) but he could probably use another reminder if he remains willing. See you tomorrow! - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debconf.org ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Welcome leaflet
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 23:40 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Here's an early-draft of a Welcome leaflet that could be distributed to newcomers (as they check-in at Carman and/or Frontdesk). This leaflet is meant to provide some basic and most useful information for people attending the conference. Your feedback, ideas (and any sort of contribution) is welcome, Hi, The welcome sheet is now released: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/File:DebConf10_Welcome_sheet_v4.odt Feel free to make whatever improvements you consider to be useful. Let me know if i can do something, Franklin ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] available video camera
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:38:03PM -0400, Michael Schultheiss wrote: Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Michael, On Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, Michael Schultheiss wrote: I have a consumer MiniDV camera I can bring. I arrive in New York on Saturday evening. you're staying til the very end, right? if so, please bring it! My flight home is early August 8. I'll be sure to bring my camera. That's great. Thank you very much. -edrz ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
