Re: [Debconf-discuss] Trying for a US->Banja Luka travel discount?

2011-05-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:48 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:36:25PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> 
> Apparently if we use Star Alliance Meetings Plus (as opposed to Convention
> Plus) we can do it with as little as 30 days lead time and 50 participants 
> from
> 3 countries. For Star Alliance Convention Plus we need six months lead time,
> but unfortunately a minimum of 500 participants which is unlikely for us even
> for DebConf12.  SkyTeam Global Meetings requires at least 50 participants from
> 2 countries and an unspecified lead time. Once we register, those agreements
> are probably reusable in future years, assuming we use one of our 
> long-standing
> legal entities like SPI or FFIS.
> 
> Shall I contact Star Alliance and SkyTeam and see what's possible for
> DebConf11? It would still help to know who would be interested in using one of
> these arrangements, via one of those airline alliances, who hasn't booked 
> their
> DebConf11 flights yet. We'd also need to make a separate group booking for
> whatever form(s) of transport we use for the last leg to/from Banja Luka, if 
> we
> want a discount for that, since those airlines don't go there.

Yeah, please do.  I expect I'll be travelling Star Alliance.  I note
that there are "special procedures for New Zealand" so it would be worth
quantifying those in my case, also.

Thanks Jimmy,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 06:34 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, 
> > if 
> > you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices.
> 
> Given that finding good flight prices is hard, would it be worthwhile to
> get a travel agent to arrange transportation for everyone? A good agent
> might be able to find much better deals than most people, and might not
> be too expensive.

I think this probably isn't a great idea.

My cynical imagination suggests that we will be paying the travel
agent's salary while they do this, that the additional communication
workload for the sponsorship people *will* make it a nightmare, and that
problems occurring as a miscommunication will be blamed on the (now
totally overworked) sponsorship team and (now reclassified as useless)
travel agent for failing the clairvoyance test.

While there are travel agents around who can do as you say I have found
them to be extremely rare, possibly because they are often paid on
commission.  I would also be surprised if they can do it for clients
from all over the world - they will inevitably specialise on the needs
of clients who are most likely to walk in the door.

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[Debconf-discuss] Restaurant Atrio

2009-07-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi,

There is a fairly special restaurant in town (two Michelin stars) which
I visited during DebCamp and I'd like to organise another excursion
there if anyone is interested.

Add yourself to this wiki page if you're interested in joining us:

http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/RestauranteAtrio

Regards,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] (Mobile) IP Connectivity in Spain

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 00:53 +0200, David Moreno wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> > You could try movistar (owned by Telefonica). I was in a movistar shop
> > in the morning and was after a SMS card but bought a mobile phone  
> > for 20
> > Euros to call my wife in Barcelona for 1 cent per minute. It was  
> > cheaper
> > to buy the mobile phone to make calls within Spain.
> 
> At the Tabacos shop at Barajas I was able to get a SIM card from Happy  
> Móvil that is carried by Orange, apparently. It's nice, but it has no  
> data (3G, Edge, or anything) support and my phone is stupid without it.
> 
> So, two things, where's that Movistar store? And, do people know if I  
> can get a SIM card with prepaid cards recharging that also has 3G/EDGE?

The YOIGO card I got for €20 does 3G and had €20 of credit on it.
Charges for use of 3G seem to stop after €1.20 each day (or less if I
only use it a very little).  I saw a YOIGO advert on a phone shop in the
building at the end of Plaza Mayor, where the Caja Extremadura building
is, but I don't know if they sell them there.


> Also, if I'm able to get such a SIM card, I offer to trade the Happy  
> Móvil SIM card worth €10 (with still €3+ credit in it) for a cerveza  
> pint :-D
> 
> > I can go with you. The shops open at 17:00 in the afternoon.
> 
> Don't they open early morning? :-\

Yeah, no doubt then too, and probably close for siesta at 14h00 :-)

Cheers,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] (Mobile) IP Connectivity in Spain

2009-07-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 23:05 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> 
> By chance, I found that some virtual operators (MNVO) have good plans.
> 
> I chose movidata.es (provided and sold by phonehouse).
> I bought the formula with an Alcatel 3G Modem, an X200(1) at 49€. It's
> prepaid at 5€/100MB (300MB included). I'll post more data soon (short: the
> apn is "internettph")

FWIW I bought a YOIGO SIM in Barcelona which included 20 Euros prepay
for 20 Euros.  Each day I use it the charges seem to increase for a
while, up to a per day maximum of 1,20, though it's quite possible
there's some higher threshold where I might suddenly get whacked with a
whole lot more.

It worked really well for me in Barcelona where the Hotel Duc de la
Victoria wanted a ridiculous 7 euro/night for the wifi, and fortunately
everywhere else we've stayed has included it free (though it was pretty
dodgy at the Hotel America in Granada, but they're forgiven because one
should not spend too much time checking e-mail while visiting in the
Alhambra :-).

Cheers,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] volunteers wanted for setting up the WLAN

2009-07-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
I will be arriving 15th and expect I can help set these up. I have a  
git checkout of openwrt on my laptop with me already.

Cheers
Andrew

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On 4/07/2009, at 13:08, Holger Levsen  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the venue(s) dont have a suitable wireless setup for us, so we'll  
> need to set
> up our own. For this purpose we have plenty (30) of APs which will  
> need to be
> flashed (aka installed) and distributed on site and then moved again  
> and
> again, to optimize the signal quality :-)
>
> We wont need all 30 APs, I assume for MT 10-15 will be enough, while  
> for FdS 2
> or 3 should be fine.
>
> We have three modells to deploy, though I suggest to only use 2:
>
> - 15 fonera1 (some new, some used)
> - 12 bufallo airstation g54 (brand new, unopened :)
> - 4 fonera2
>
> I suggest not to use the fonera2s, as we only have few of them. Also  
> people
> can use them to get d-i working on them :-)
>
> The bufallos have 5 lan ports, so they are best distributed in  
> peoples room
> (where we (=you) will need to lay cat5 cables too...), while the  
> foneras
> (which only have 1 lan port) should be placed where we dont want  
> people to
> plug in extra cables, like the talk rooms and such.
>
> I suggest to install OpenWRT on all of them, as it supports all  
> hardware and
> because we have documentation for it already and because I'm familar  
> with it,
> so I can help if needed.
>
> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf7/OpenWRT has some old  
> instructions on
> building kamikaze, the latest OpenWRT release, as well as info how  
> to flash
> the foneras. I dunno how to flash the bufallos yet, but I'm sure its
> documented somewhere on the web :)
>
> If you want to help, you should obviously arrive at DebCamp early  
> and you will
> need to work together with the admin team :-)
>
>
> regards,
>Holger
>
> http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/Hardware(2f)Buffalo.html
> http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/Hardware(2f)Fon.html
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Paying Renfe with VISA (was: How to get the "web" rate for Madrid... )

2009-06-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 10:45 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I managed to buy renfe tickets with my (german) VISA card and I also 
> experienced failures to validate the (same) card. There were sometimes other 
> failures too.

I had some problems trying to buy my tickets with my Mastercard too, but
when I went back a few hours later it worked.  I figured it was just
failing a timeout getting authorisation from my bank.  The RTT from New
Zealand to Europe is such that that sort of thing is not unusual.

Cheers,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] CAcert assurances at DebConf

2009-06-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 22:19 +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> 
> A few DDs are also CAcert assurers (myself included).
> 
> What do people think of the idea of holding CAcert assurer sessions, perhaps
> at the same time as the keysigning sessions so that more people can become
> CAcert assurers?

We have done this at every Debconf I've been to since Helsinki, so this
seems likely.

CACert assurances don't work the same way as GPG signings, however it is
a given that there will be plenty of CACert assurers present, so anyone
interested should definitely bring some pre-filled forms.

It's possible that setting up a wiki page about it will help coordinate
it, though it sounds like you might be volunteering to make sure it
happens :-)

Feel free to include me in the list of people who can do assurances.

Cheers,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Train Madrid ??? Caceres

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 20:32 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> *Really*?  I ROFL-ed when I was reading your previous mail.  So if I
> in the future might be in such a strange situation - and I can not
> imagine any other country than UK where leaving the train earlier
> might be a problem

In Sydney there is an additional (and significant) charge for getting
off at the airport station.


>  - I would probably wait until the train left the
> station and than cry in alarm: "Oh my good I left the train to early.
> How can I get nor to Lisbon / any other station."  I guess if you are
> running up and down the station doing so they will quickly give you
> a lift outside. ;-))

They will point to the ticket vending machines and say "buy a ticket or
get on the next train through to some other destination".


> Isn't this a strange world???

Yes, indeed.

:-)
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Pre-paid meals

2009-06-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 13:24 +0400, Al Nikolov wrote:
> Hi, there.
> 
> My employer opt to pay for my meals at DC9, which i noticed in penta.
> 
> Could i get an invoice to pay before the conference begin to not to have a
> mess with printed checks during the conference?

... but consider that you may not want always to be eating the DC9 meals
either.  In the past I have found it nice (and sociable :-) to visit
some of the local eating establishments.

Of course in Argentina there were definitely dangers of steak overdose,
but I think these risks are manageable.  Or at least I am willing to
accept them... :-)

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf8 bus from EZE to MDQ

2008-08-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 18:22 +0200, Amaya wrote:
> Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
> > A related question would be: is there a hardware store near the venue?
> > I intend to buy a plug and replace the one in my UK power bar thingy,
> > so I will have four UK sockets, earthed and all -- assuming the
> > building's sockets are earthed too, of course :)
> 
> Oh, I got it totally wrong. I expected my UK adaptors to work...
> Damn :)

No.  You will need all of the adaptors you have been saving up for a
visit to New Zealand :-)

:-)
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for keys for keysigning in Edinburgh during DebConf7

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:51 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> 
> I really see few people that check identity AND the email (people tend
> to sign all key-identity of a key).

In my experience most people verify that you can receive e-mail at the
specified address by signing each identity, encrypting the signature
with your public key, and sending it *to* the e-mail address for that
identity.  I have three e-mail identities in my key, and almost
invariably receive an e-mail to each of them.

For you to then get that to the keyservers you must:
 - receive the e-mail, proving the e-mail address works
 - decrypt the signature, proving your access to the private key

That seems to me to actually be quite a thorough confirmation of the
e-mail address.

Cheers,
        Andrew McMillan.

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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Cheese and Wine BoF: reminder

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:14:49 -0500
> Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > I shall bring some Sbrinz then, just so that people get something
> > > tasty while you too battle over your inferior mould.
> > 
> > You criminal mastermind!! We all know Switzerland is not
> > in the EU. You will have to smuggle it just as we would.
> 
> Switzerland is specifically included under the same rules as the EU
> itself as far as these cheese rules go.
> "A combined total of 5kgs of meat and dairy products are permitted from
> The Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland."

Mmm.  OK.  I'm looking forward to 5kg of Sbrinz then, since I won't
be able to bring my own cheese :-(

I will bring two bottles of wine, but I don't think that will be enough
to drown my sorrows without a good chunk of mouldy cheese.

Cheers,
Andrew.

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[Debconf-discuss] Alternative keysigning procedures

2006-05-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 04:54 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:47:20PM -0500, martin f krafft wrote:
> 
> > I imagine an improved protocol for the keysigning, which is based on
> > an idea I overheard after the party (and someone mentioned it in the
> > thread): instead of the everyone-signs-everyone approach, it might
> > be interesting to investigate forming groups (based on connectivity
> > statistics) such that everyone's mean distance in the web of trust
> > can be increased by a fair amount in a short amount of time. At the
> > same time, such circles could be used for education by those with
> > high connectivity (and thus much experience). The problem here is of
> > course the somewhat unreliable attendance of people. Comments
> > welcome.
> 
> I agree that this is the way to go.  Who has time to work on implementing
> the necessary code?

It is something that has been discussed before, and it was certainly
something that I was discussing with Anibal after the keysigning.

The concept that Anibal and I were discussing post-keysigning was as
follows:

(a) Order the list of keysigning participants by centrality.

(b) Decide on a group size for the keysigning.  Something around 10-15
seems likely to be a worthwhile choice.

(c) Allocate partcipants to the groups in a round robin following
centrality order and starting with the most central.

Produce the keysigning list, with group numbers in addition to the key
numbers (or perhaps instead of).

All of the other pre-keysigning activities are the same.

At the keysigning, the initial reading out of MD5 / SHA1 of the
keysigning list would still happen, as it normally does.

After this, the keysigning would follow two parts:

Part One


People split into their assigned groups and cross-sign only within those
groups.  The intention is that these groups are small enough that
everyone can see everything that is going on.  Experienced people can be
observed performing comprehensive checks, and inexperienced people can
be educated.

Part Two


Optionally, after part one is complete, some people may choose to
personally and individually participate in keysignings outside of their
assigned groups.  Note that this can still be facilitated by the fact
that both individuals have their fingerprints within the keysigning
list.

==
Finito.
And gradually it fades out.


Rationale
=

Keysignings stop being fun ways to meet people after about 15 minutes.
For me, the worst experience was in Helsinki, with around 300 people,
getting sunburned in a carpark.

Keysignings are about improving the web of trust.  The most efficient
enhancement of the web of trust will be if the edges exchange keys with
the middle.  Signing keys with _everyone_ is inefficient, unnecessary
and promotes competitive behaviour rather than trust relationships.

Keysignings should promote education of WoT best practices, and not
_worst_ practices.

Keysignings should not take more than one hour.


So that's my 2c.


If people agree that this would be a useful approach, I am willing to
undertake to provide some additional tools within the signing-party
package to make such a keysigning more easily doable.

Of course the above does not address how to handle the people who didn't
manage to get their act together soon enough to be in the initial list.
There are several ways to deal with this also:

1) The "additional list" is produced, SHA1'd, read, but these people can
only participate in "Part Two" above.

2) The "additional list" is produced and these people are also
allocated to groups in round robin, but randomly, rather than in
centrality order.

and no doubt there are other ways to deal with it...


Regards,
Andrew.

PS.  Please feel free to CC me on replies, since I am not subscribed to
Debian Devel and I _do_ have sane procmail dupe filters :-)

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[Debconf-discuss] Some Debconf photos...

2006-05-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi everyone,

I've uploaded some of my photos from Debconf to my gallery which is at
http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/ 

Most of the Debconf6 ones are under:

http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/v/Travels/Mexico06/Debconf6/

I've also been stitching some together to make panoramas, and you'll
find these here:

http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/v/Landscapes/Panoramas/

When I get back to New Zealand in early June I will make all of the
others (several hundred) available, and will also be making more
panoramas.

If you want to use any of my photos for any reason, and they aren't ones
that I have uploaded to the public domain photo repository on
http://burningwell.org/ then drop me an e-mail and I'm sure we can agree
an appropriate free license.

Regards,
        Andrew McMillan.

PS.  And many, many thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to
the organisers, for making this another wonderful Debconf! :-)

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[Debconf-discuss] Re: [Debconf-announce] CAcert assurance on Saturday

2006-05-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 19:15 -0500, martin f krafft wrote:
> Hello crowd,
> 
> Micah Anderson and I are again organising a CAcert assurance
> party/BoF/gettogether/extravaganza/whatever, this time *not*
> immediately following the keysigning marathon.

After going through this at Helsinki last year I am now a CACert assurer
also (150 pts), if you need some extra hands.

Quite possibly there are others around also.

Cheers,
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Re: [Debconf-discuss] the best date to arrive

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 02:42 -0300, Marcela Tiznado wrote:
> Hi!
> Here goes my 3 answers...
> 
> > 1.  If the airline will land me at MEX at 21:25 local
> > time either evening, should I come 13 May or 14 May?
> 
> I think you should arrive the 13 May at night, the 14May Debconf starts.
> 
> > 2.  Must I arrange my own hotel in Mexico City the first
> > evening?  That is, if I land at MEX at 21:25, will it
> > then be too late at night to continue to Oaxtepec?
> 
> Im not mexican, but a mexican told me that arriving at 21.25 is better to 
> stay in a hotel near the
> airport to spend the night and early in the morning take the bus to oaxtepec 
> (Oaxtepec HowTo soon in
> the website).

I asked a similar question earlier and got a good answer from Gabriela,
which follows...

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 06:54 -0600, Gabriela Manjarrez wrote: 
> Hi, Andrew
> 
> this is one of the points that the local team is working on it and 
> finding different ways to arrive, this will be defined as soon as we 
> know more details about arrivals and departures dates.
> 
> For the moment, one of the ways is to take a bus (110.00 pesos - 
> 10.5396 USD) from the airport (departures every 30 or 40 minutes 
> starting at 6:40 am, last bus leaves at 23:30 :/ ) to Cuernavaca 
> (about two hours) then somebody picks you up in the Central Casino de 
> la Selva to Oaxtepec (like 30 minutes).

Now in fact my own flight is now due to land at 22:30 on 11th May, but
Debconf is so much fun I don't want to spend any time waiting in Mexico
City!  I want to get to Debconf as soon as possible, so my question was
more of a 'Can I get to Oaxtepec if my flight lands at 22:30' and it
seems probably not for me :-(

Anyway, for now I have booked flights, but not any accommodation for the
night I arrive, in the hope that I won't need it...

Answers to interesting questions like "what would be the likely costs
for (a) average accommodation near Mexico City Airport and (b) a taxi to
Oaxtepec" might tip me one way or the other.


And back to quoting Marcela:
> >
> > 3.  Given an answer to the first two questions, is there
> > any reason I should not book flights and pay fares now?
> 
> Why not? Go go go get your ticket :)

Marcela is right: you should probably have already got your ticket.  All
the cheap seats will be gone!  I guess that depends where you are coming
from though.

Regards,
Andrew McMillan.

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[Debconf-discuss] Getting from MEX to Oaxtepec

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi,

I'm landing at MEX fairly late at night and was wondering if I should
book accommodation somewhere between there and Oaxtepec, or if there is
some way I can just travel directly there.

My flight from LAX lands at 22:20 on the 11th of May and I'd rather
travel to Oaxtepec directly if it will be reasonable.

Thanks,
Andrew.

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