Re: [guadec-list] Proposal to meet this week
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > On 6 February 2018 at 22:41, Ismael Olea wrote: >> moving kanban from Taiga to Gitlab > > Could you please ask whoever proposed this to set up a test instance > so that we can have a quick look at what this is like in comparison? No idea who made the proposal but I saw there is already a GUADEC project at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/GUADEC so people would just need to be added to it. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] conference software
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 19:41 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Tobias Mueller > e> wrote: >> As far as I know, the schedule format was defined by Pentabarf and >> nowadays many other applications implement it > Including OSEM? ;-) Yes. Sorry, I should have mentioned it. ☺ > I consider this good reasoning. > FWIW: I didn't intend to recommend one software or advise against > another. But rather refute statements that I believe are wrong in order > to help making a better decision. I assumed that was one of the things > the original message intended to provoke. 👍 > You seem to be all set More or less, the question of the hosting and sysadmin is still in the air. > but if you're looking for suggestions as to what > features your software should have, I recommend ranking a static export > high on your list of things to look out for. Not only will it make > deployment much easier, but it will also make archiving the whole thing > very easy. Agreed, this is important. I don’t know if OSEM already does it. I’ll check and ask for this feature if it’s not already present. > Because GNOME.Asia Summit didn't use OSEM for the last couple of years. Oh. I’ll get in touch with the OSEM people to check why they claim we did. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] conference software
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi. Hello, > What software are you talking about? He was talking about Pentabarf. > Frab? I don't have the impression that it's neither unmaintained nor not > supported. In fact, it sets standards when it comes to an open format > for the conference's schedules. > https://github.com/frab/frab The good thing about standards is that it doesn’t matter what software sets them. What matters is that they are used. As far as I know, the schedule format was defined by Pentabarf and nowadays many other applications implement it >> There is 5-6 dedicated people for OSEM. > But is anybody actually using it? Besides the people themselves for > openSuSE Conference. Yes. GNOME.Asia as Sri said earlier, but also a few others (FOSSETCON, PGConfUS, SeaGL,Open Government Partnership Summit…). I’m not sure this criterion is that important too. If the software does what we need it to, and if the developers are active and implementing the features that are lacking, I’d say that is more important. >> So, I'm hoping to make an executive decision and move to OSEM. > What's your reasoning so far? First of all, the main motivation is to move away from regcfp. While it has served us well so far, it has a single developer who said himself that it should be rewritten. It would be better to move to something that is better supported and is actively developed. There are a few alternatives on the market and we could bikeshed for a while without reaching an agreement. I investigated OSEM and it does what we need, looks good and easy to use. It fits our requirements and the developers are listening to user feedback. I heartily recommend switching to it. >> Secondly, GNOME.Asia has already used OSEM for the past couple of >> years. > wait, what? This is plain wrong. How so? -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] 2017 videos on YouTube?
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote: > I personally think we should have those videos on the GUADEC channel to > separate marketing from "educational" conference materials. But there > appears to be some disagreement about that. As much as I hate “+1” comments, I agree with you. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC talk videos are now available
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Sam Thursfield wrote: > * Gitlab (no video; we do have audio) > * Recipes – Lessons learned from creating a new app (no video; we do > have audio) > * Replacing C library code with Rust: what I learned (we have video > of the last part only; we do have audio) For the “audio but no video” case, someone could get the slides and sync them to the audio to produce a video. I can do it if nobody else volunteers, but I won’t have the time to listen carefully to the audio to find the slide change points so one would have to do that work first. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC talk videos are now available
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > The original mail has a section with that information. Starts with > "Sadly there are 6 talks that we can't do videos for:", has a list of > the videos, and why they weren't uploaded to YouTube and the FTP. Oops, I only read the first word of each bullet point and missed that there were individual explanations. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC talk videos are now available
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Sam Thursfield wrote: > Hi everyone, > We had a very successful weekend of editing videos and pretty much > everything is now available. Hey! Awesome work! > I'm happy to provide the raw files that we do have for those talks if > anybody is interested. Can you expand on what the issue is if you have files but can’t produce videos out of them? -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Posters and other printed materials from last year
unconference.pdf has a typo: “proposalas”. submit-unconference.pdf has a typo that could have been made on purpose but I don’t think it was: “proposal1!” -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Updated GUADEC Social Events Page
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > In particular, is there a better way to handle the attributions for the > pictures I included? Perhaps we add them all at the bottom, or leave them > embedded in the picture metadata as it is now? https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution Your current attribution work well, they just lack a link to the source (make the titles hyperlinks to the original picture page). While it is not mandatory for the CC0 one, you can still name your source like you do for the other ones as a courtesy. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC report week 26
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Sam Thursfield wrote: > - Looked at whether we can use existing Codethink lanyards; we'd > need to buy pouches though so should maybe still get our own. Are you aware we have GNOME lanyards that we bought in 2014 and pass from GUADEC to GUADEC? > - Tried to add GUADEC to lanyrd.com, but it seems to be impossible What was the limitation? > - Looked at linux.com event listings, but of course it's Linux > Foundation only Is it? I see “MesosCon” there which is described as “an annual conference organized by the Apache Mesos community”. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] 20th Birthday Logo | Feedback needed
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > IIRC, putting them in own cloud makes them only accessible to people who have > an account / are foundation members. I think there's a setting to make files > public, but I'm not sure how to do it. I'll try to fiddle around with the > settings > once I have time. Files by default are not shared at all (just like on Google Drive or Dropbox) and you can share them with a specific group/user (which requires membership) or publicly (again, just like Google Drive). Once your file is sent to owncloud, browse to it through the web interface and click on the sharing icon next to it (three dots linked by two lines). There just check the box for public link and you’ll have a URL to share. > Once the assets are ready for use, I'll for sure use owncloud. For now, if > anyone > else has time to put these prototypes on owncloud, feel free. That’s a bit of a catch 22: in order to not use Google Drive, one has to get the files from Google Drive. > What I really need is quick feedback on these since the designer is working > on them > some more today. That is not relevant. You could have had that same feedback with any hosting platform. > I was going to just embed the images in the email but thought the > email would be too large. Yes, putting them online was the correct choice. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] 20th Birthday Logo | Feedback needed
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > Hi everyone, Hey, > 20th birthday logos [1]. […] > [1] https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0BxT3JgrBDcz2Z3UwT3p6REh1S0U Can you please use our owncloud for GNOME related assets? Cheers, -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2017 design proposals
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Gary Perkins wrote: > Hi, Hi Gary, Your mail was stuck in moderation queue because you are not subscribed to the list, consider subscribing. > Any feedback on the designs would be most welcome, I'm happy to make > changes and resubmit. I don’t get design number 2. ☹ Large inked areas are usually a bad idea, even more so on the chest when worn by a woman but that concern is still valid on the rest of the shirt (in the back of designs 1 and 3 here). The New York State Department of Economic Development has trademarked the I love New York logo (known as “I ♥ NY”) and for that reason it is best to avoid designs in that vein as they could claim infringement. Sorry about all the negative feedback. I like the front design, my preference goes towards the white bee rather than the color one. Cheers, -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] URGENT - extending the CfP deadline
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Also, I realised that I don't > have access to the GUADEC wordpress instance... I see you as an admin over there. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Registration for GUADEC 2017: request for opinions & testing
Hey, On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Benjamin Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 18:33 +, Sam Thursfield wrote: >> Did the Wau Holland Stiftung pass this money on to GNOME, or were >> those people donating *to* the Wau Holland Stuftung? > > WHS has a contract with GNOME. Any donation to them will be forwarded > to the GNOME foundation at some point. This has been set up for the > sole purpose of allowing EU residence to donate money to the foundation > in a tax deductible fashion. Yes, people are donating to GNOME, WHS just acts as an intermediary that enables tax deduction for EU residents. It is the “Bank transfer” option offered at https://www.gnome.org/support-gnome/donate/ -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Recording speakers at GUADEC
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > Hi team, Hey, > How do we make sure that speakers are ok with us recording them at GUADEC? > I've only spoken at GUADEC once and don't remember if there's something > every speaker must agree to, but I assume there is. > > If anyone has an example of the language we use handy, it'd be awesome if > you could forward it. We've been talking about a larger photo policy for > events and I'd love to see examples of other places where we address similar > topics. It's on the presentation submission form and the paragraph goes like this: By submitting your talk, you are agreeing to license your submission under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/";>CC BY-SA 4.0. If your talk is accepted, details of your submission will be published on the website and on printed media (such as the badge). If you your talk is accepted, your presentation may be recorded and streamed live. All recordings of talks will also be distributed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/";>CC BY-SA 4.0. If you provide other materials, such as your slides or a screencast of a demo, those will also be distributed under the same license. Hope that helps. Cheers. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Minutes 2016-02-24
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > There is this GUADEC curse that magically makes us switch registration > systems every year. > Would be kind of cool if we were able to keep the same two years in a row > for once. Hmm. > The regcfp system worked really well for us last year. And the year before. There, proved you wrong. ;-) -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Minutes 2016-02-24
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Benjamin Berg wrote: > I don't want to block a move to something else. However, I don't really > see schedule archives as a big enough reason to move considering we > would need someone to: > * figure everything out (badges, cfp, schedule, registration, payment) > * evaluate which solution is really better > * set it up on our servers > * be dedicated to maintain it in the runup to the conference >(and that should really be a non-core team person) > > And that has to happen before we open the CfP … And preferably that would be someone willing to take care of it next year too, and the following… because we don't want to change every other year. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2016: length and schedule
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Allan Day wrote: > Fifth, we might want to rethink how the hackfest days are organised, > either in terms of reducing the number of days, or expanding them to > include more than just BoFs. You piqued my interest here. What do you think we could do on those days in addition to BoFs? -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2016: length and schedule
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:20 PM, David King wrote: > Reducing the length of > time allocated to each talk would be my preference, if it is desirable to > keep the same number of talks on the schedule. As the guy who had to kick people out of rooms because they were chatting with the speaker or the speaker was still not done with his talk when the time had passed, but also as a speaker who thought it was a bit difficult to cover everything I wanted to in the allocated time, I don't think it would be good to reduce the length. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I think this is really the sign of the times and a form of stagnation as > occurred. We can probably get a lot more interesting papers if we started > reaching out to other projects that are using our software and platform. > Giving other perspectives will drive more conversation and ideas for > collaboration. Yes. I'm sad not to know more about Elementary or Cinnamon for instance, and would definitely be interested in attending a talk from their community. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Slides of the GUADEC 2015
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote: > if you're one of the speakers and you're reading this, you can send the > slides to me. This doesn't apply to interns as we already have the slides in a single presentation file thanks to Lasse. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Slides of the GUADEC 2015
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Luna Jernberg wrote: > Videos is uploaded too http://videos.guadec.org/2015/ now by Bastian > Ilso as ogg video, but not all slides etc as pdf or something, but > guess some of the other dudes will know if those will be uploaded > aswell i just helped with some volunteering this year, so i am not > 100% sure Yes, slides will be uploaded alongside the videos. There will be a more formal and more targeted call, but if you're one of the speakers and you're reading this, you can send the slides to me. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] Links for i18n stats (AGM team report)
Hej, As promised during the i18n team report during the AGM, here are a few links regarding what was done in the past year. Release notes, internationalisation page with the list of supported (more than 80% coverage) languages: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.12/i18n.html https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/i18n.html https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.16/i18n.html← jumped from 40 to 41 Evolution of the number of strings: https://l10n.gnome.org/releases/gnome-3-12/ https://l10n.gnome.org/releases/gnome-3-14/ https://l10n.gnome.org/releases/gnome-3-16/ Comparison of coverage across those releases: https://l10n.gnome.org/releases/compare/ui/3-0/3-12/3-14/3-16/ Cheers -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] [General Info] Plan for GUADEC 2015 videos
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Bastian Ilso wrote: > Hi, Hej, > Furthermore I plan to upload the videos to GNOME's official Youtube channel, > GNOMEDesktop[0]. I plan to: […] > I see we have an old separate GUADEC Youtube channel[0] made from a separate > Youtube account that I do not have access to. However, IMO it is more > convenient from engagement POV that we can promote just a single youtube > channel (GNOMEDesktop) and we have plenty of opportunity to keep the videos > categorized in GNOMEDesktop via Playlists and by controlling what content > gets featured. Also, GNOMEDesktop supports uploading videos up to 11 hours > long and at the moment I don't know if the GUADEC channel does. What about the GNOME Design channel[0]? Also, I thought Youtube had a concept of channels where a single place could be referencing and advertising all of their channels? > What do you think? If you have concerns, feel free to express them. If there > are no major concerns I think we can probably expect to have the videos > uploaded within a week. My concern when uploading to Youtube is that we're contributing to a centralized Internet, and as a Free Software project we should care about the decentralized Internet cause. Of course I'm aware that we'll still have the videos on the GNOME server, but that's not enough as people will lazily rely on Youtube in the end, or may even stumble upon things on Youtube and never even be aware that we actually offer the videos elsewhere (with slides and everything). [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/gnome3design -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] gender field in registration system
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi Alexandre, Hey, > Thank you for relating this. I think the downside of someone getting > an invitation they are not interested in is relatively small, so it's > probably not worth having a separate checkbox for opt in for an > invitation. I know people prefer to keep the registration page short. That's because you're in a US-centric mindset. There's a difference between the law in the US and in Europe: US is opt-out by default, Europe is opt-in by default. European people see unsolicited contact as a very bad thing, and the usual "Here's a piece of information about our thing, if you don't want to hear from us again just unsubscribe using the link at the bottom" is actually not ok. So while I'm all for short registration form, I prefer having one more checkbox in it and making a decision at this time rather than getting more noise in my inbox and having to jump through hoops to get rid of it. "No thanks" rather than "Please go away now". > However, I don't mind us having it in the future if more people think > that's the best way to go. Yes, we can change it next year. Too late for this year. > I agree that getting multiple e-mails is annoying. I added a note > about sending individual invitations to the wiki page about the > dinner, so that we preserve it for future years, and related it to > Rosanna, who is organizing the dinner this year, as well. Thanks. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] What is the aspect ratio of the projector?
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Adrien Plazas wrote: > Hi, Hey, > It would be nice to know the aspect ratio of the available projectors so we > can make all slides perfect, could someone nearby check it? This has been asked during the meeting today. Someone will contact the venue to ask them and we'll come back to you. Cheers. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Next meeting
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Oliver Propst wrote: > In any case let's have a GUADEC irc meeting this Thursday at 18:00 CET. If you're talking about current time in Göteborg, it's CEST. CEST in the summer, CET in winter. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Wifi status for the venue
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Pascal Terjan wrote: > On 22 July 2015 at 11:11, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >> A quick update about the wifi status at the venue. >> >> I called the IT person at Folkets Hus yesterday and asked about the >> capabilities of the network, since our contact in charge of the booking said >> that there might be some limitations to the network, but was uncertain about >> the details. >> The IT guy said that the wifi network should handle up to 300 units at the >> same time, and that every device gets a cap for 54 Mbits. The entire >> internet connection is 1 Gbps both up and down. > > Sounds great! > 300 should be just about right for 100 participants :) Aren't we expecting/hoping for twice that number? -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Meeting on Thursday, Jul 16 - 16h30 UTC
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Luna Jernberg wrote: > This meeting is coming up in around 3 hours will join in :) No it's not. 16h30UTC is in 5 hours. That's 18h30 CEST (local time in Sweden, France, and a few other countries). http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cest -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Shopping list for picnic
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Fabiana Simões wrote: > Hi there, Hey, > I was wondering if the shopping list for last year's picnic at GUADEC > is / could be made available somewhere. > > That would be really helpful as we plan another edition of the picnic > for this year's GUADEC. Wow, I don't think I have anything that looks like a written list of what we bought. We went to a huge store where usually restaurants go to buy their stuff (think 5kg food cans instead of 500g ones), went through the alleys and tried to find food and beverages for "a group of people". I had no idea how many would show up and what we bought in advance turned out to be not enough. I'm not sure I can be of more help. :-/ -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Provisional Talk Schedule
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Lasse Schuirmann wrote: > I'm GSoC admin and we do have 24 GSoC and one Outreachy student this > year. A grain of salt: how many of them are actually coming to GUADEC? -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Provisional Talk Schedule
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > My talk and Alex' have the same target group, could we move either > around? Isn't that bound to happen with the way talks are grouped in one common track/grand topic per day? -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] gender field in registration system
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi, Hi, > We will not publish gender data. It will only be used for > attendee statistics and for an invitation to the women's dinner. Can you try and handle this better than last year please? There were two issues. First, at least one person was contacted that wasn't interested in the women's dinner. I'd need to check, but I'm not even sure she actually filled in the field as "female" (she may have left it blank), so there could have been some guesswork on your side. Anyway there should be a way to opt out of the invitation, or better yet the invitation should be opt in and separate from the field. The second issue was that, if I recall correctly, you sent an email with all the invited people in the To or CC field. The consequence is that if you're not interested in the dinner, people keep you in the list of recipients and you keep getting email about something you have no interest in. All of this is from memory and I have no quick way to check my facts. I'm sorry if I got parts wrong, but I think this are details you should pay attention to. Cheers. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Next local meeting tomorrow or Friday?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > half of the team thought it would be a face to face meeting, > and half that it would be an IRC meeting (because I wasn't clear in my > mail). And > Lets try and do this next week maybe? This time try to be clear from the start. :-) Would next week be IRL or IRC? -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Dates for GUADEC 2015?
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Ole Aamot wrote: > Sorry for interrupting, but have the local GNOME hackers in > the GUADEC 2015 organizing committee decided on specific > dates for GUADEC 2015 yet? The dates have not been chosen yet (and I'm pretty sure this has been answered on this list not so long ago). > I guess the decision on dates first of all depends on > what dates the potential speakers are available. > > https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/PotentialSpeakers > > So, did anyone ask potential speakers about dates? It usually doesn't depend on that at all. Most of the time, it depends on availability of the venue, as is the case for 2015. Potential speakers are people we'd like to see come, but we don't build the conference around them. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Bid proposal for Rome GUADEC - INFO REQUEST
Hi, On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >>- Is there a GUADEC financial statement related to previous editions >>that we can check? > > Possibly, you can find some on the wiki under > https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC//Budget Indeed. In particular https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/Budget is not totally uptodate because we still need to pay some invoices and reimburse some expenses, but it's pretty accurate already. >>- What is the sponsorship import attended for GUADEC 2015 (if a >>prevision exists?) > > I'm really sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by "import"? I guess she means income. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] 2014 speaker slides and video
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Oliver Propst wrote: > Are the team planning to gather the speaker slides and publish them on > the wiki in a similar way the GNOME Asia Summit team did [1]? We indeed gathered the slides. We don't know yet where they'll be made available, but they definitely will be. > Was the the presentations recorded? If there where, when can we expect > that they will become available? Talks have been recorded and videos are currently being processed. We'll announce it when they are done. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy
First of all, I'm pretty sure nobody in this discussion said there should be no policy *at all*. There seems to be a misunderstanding that this discussion is between those "for a policy" vs "those against any form of policy" and it is not. Maybe those advocating a strong policy could use a moment to think about it, maybe they'd see we're not their enemies. As someone said elsewhere, "my heart sank a bit for every email in the discussion" where people assumed we're not better than that. We said we'd comply with the decision, so the code of conduct will be published. I don't think insisting on the fact that we're bad people serves any purpose. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > It's certainly > possible for a conference to be successful without a strong CoC. It's > absolutely possible for the vast majority of attendees to have a good > time. Here you're implying that having a soft code, however clear it is, doesn't work when it comes to enforcement. I think that's the main point we disagree on. I don't see how to fix this disagreement. > There are many documented cases of harassment occurring. How many > documented cases of people being unjustly restricted by a CoC have there > been? If it's equally difficult to talk about both (which strikes me as > unlikely - discussing harassment at conferences tends to get you > sexualised slurs and threats of violence, discussing restrictions on > freedom of speech tends to get you praise), that still seems like an > argument that more people are affected by harassment than are affected > by CoCs. It took years before the people advocating strong policies got to the point where they are now. I'd expect it will take time before the people that feel oppressed get to a similar point, if they ever decide to organize themselves in a similar fashion. But that will most probably never happen as the latter group wouldn't want to harass people (from the former group, or not) by insisting with their point of view. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > I'm uncomfortable attending a conference run by people who feel > uncomfortable with having such a policy. Such policies have proven more > effective than generic "Be friendly" policies in creating an atmosphere > of safety, and despite frequent claims that they'll result in a chilling > effect there's been no evidence of that whatsoever. > > I've been to five conferences so far this year. All have had a strong > anti-harassment policy. People have complained about the lack of tea. > People have complained about the distance from an airport. People have > complained about having a rail freight line running through the > convention centre. I have heard *no* complaints about the code of > conduct. I have seen nobody's speech stifled. I have seen no false > complaints made. Have you been to FOSDEM? Have there been complaints about the FOSDEM policy not being enough or people boycotting the FOSDEM because of the lack of a stronger policy? > Given that many large conferences (including OSCON, LCA, the OpenStack > summit and every Linux Foundation event) with a cumulative total of > thousands of attendees have implemented such policies, if chilling > effects were likely shouldn't we have seen complaints already? You're using an argument that's been rightfully dismissed when used the other way around. "If harassment was such a big problem, I would have heard about it". When people get uncomfortable (be it because they've been harassed or because they feel oppressed by a policy), it is not reasonnable to expect them to talk openly about it. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi, Hi Marina, > The majority of the board voted for the long version of the code of > conduct for GUADEC to be posted. We really appreciate all the work > done by the organizers, but people who voted in favor feel that it's > the board's responsibility to make decisions that affect the GNOME > community as a whole, and having the code of conducts for events is > one such decision. Our goal is to develop a similar code of conduct > that applies to all GNOME events. People who voted in favor thought > that explaining the rules and how they will be enforced is a good > idea. As I said earlier, we disapprove but will comply with the decision taken by the board. > Please post the version below, which includes a "short version", on > https://www.guadec.org/conduct Your account on the Wordpress should have sufficient permission. Can you take care of that? > The reason the board was included in this thread from the beginning is > that the initial policy said that people can contact anyone on the > board and because I wanted people on the board to be able to provide > feedback about the policy. Ok. I think it would have been useful to mention it in the beginning. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy
Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > Something I've been wondering in the last few days, can we concretely > expel someone from the conference if they keep coming back in spite of > us telling them they are no longer welcome and have been expelled? I'm > afraid we won't be able to do much apart from kicking them out over and > over when we notice they are present :( As you guessed, in such a case there is not much we can do. We could hire a bouncer but I hope everyone finds this as ridiculous as I do. If someone is really creating problems, we can (and should) call the police. So far I've only had time to reply to the technical questions that arised (phone numbers…) and not to the practical side of implementing a policy. Let me fix this. To begin with, I reverted the change by Pascal, as we didn't reach a consensus and publishing the policy Marina suggested is not ok. (Also I think some information I had on the page were missing, such as the number for SOS médecin) I've discussed this in private one-to-one conversations with several organization team members and everyone is uncomfortable with having such a policy. There are potential harassment victim in this group (female, black, fat…). The general feeling is that having a policy such as the long one Marina wrote: * intimidates everyone and establishes a climate of fear * is not more efficient than a shorter one such as the current https://www.guadec.org/policy/ version * encourages "tl;dr" (too long; didn't read) behaviour To be frank, I feel that pushing a lengthy policy is a form of harassment in itself and I'm getting tired of it. I see that board-list is CCed in this entire thread and I'm not sure I get the reason. If the board is the body that makes this decision, then we'll of course comply with the decision. Just know that the organization team disapproves the proposed policy. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > I realized that we should also make it more clear who are the > conference organizers who can handle situations that violate the > anti-harassment policy. Should it be all the people on the GUADEC team > listed at https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/Team ? Absolutely not. People that have been kind enough to volunteer for a given task shouldn't be bothered for anything else. Some of these people are not even GNOME community members and just offered to give a hand with something they knew they could handle. Some might not even attend the event. If you want to put people names on a page for this purpose, please ask them first if they agree, especially if you expect them to enforce a policy. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] anti-harassment policy
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi, Hi, > Alexandre, could you please provide any available local numbers for > law enforcement, sexual assault hot line, emergency and non-emergency > medical, and a taxi company. I can be a female contact for reporting > harassment, however, I won't have a phone working locally and do not > speak French, so someone local would be better. 112 is the "generic" emergency number (gives access to a hotline that dispatches as appropriate to the police, the fire dept. and ambulances). I'm not sure what kind of contact I should give for non-emergency medical. Can you give me anything more specific? Taxi company: "taxi 13" +33 388 36 13 13 I don't have a local female contact available. My number is +33 368 910 123. (This number has been created just for GUADEC, already works, and calls get to my mobile phone) -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Draft Talk Schedule
Hi, On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > I would like to host a newcomers workshop on the first day of the > conference - to orient the newcomers to the GNOME community, help > people with other systems set up a virtual environment with GNOME, and > help people learn the process of contributing to GNOME (filing a bug, > making a patch). I've sent in a proposal for this workshop, and didn't > hear back one way or another about it. Is there a third room that can > be used for such a workshop? In that case, I'd like to propose doing > it as a third option 13:30-15:15 on Saturday. For the moment we don't have the required extra room. I'll let you know if that changes. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Is it still possible to register
Hey, On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > Ups. It was for Brno - the registration is definitely closed for that > one ;) Indeed. Registration for Strasbourg is not yet open. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC invitations for mentors
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Nimit Shah wrote: > Hi all, > I am a foundation member and a mentor for 2 Gnome projects this year. I > wanted to know when the process for sending out invites starts for GUADEC. > Need to plan my trip related formalities based on that. Hi, Please reply to guadec-organizat...@gnome.org with the information listed at https://www.guadec.org/travel/#visa Cheers -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] GUADEC 2014 organization meeting
Hi, The next online meeting for the organization will happen on Monday June 16th 2014 at 15:00 CEST (13:00 UTC) on #guadec on irc.gnome.org and you're welcome to join us. The agenda is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/Meetings/20140616 If you feel like something should be added, ping me via email or on the IRC channel. See you at the meeting. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Visa invitation letters
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > As per the consulate, it has to be signed by a French National with > local address & telephone number. It will indeed be signed by a representative of our local entity, most likely me as I'm the secretary. > If the above is provided, I could > help here, if you are looking for some help. Im a GNOME Foundation > member for more than 10 years. I can prep the document and send to > that person, who can sign, scan and email it back. Great! Thanks a lot. Tiffany will also work on this with you. > With almost 6 weeks pending and the consulate in India needing 2-3 > working weeks, I'd like to put a rush on this if possible. Marina is currently putting the finishing touch on the template. She'll let you know as soon as she's done, and she will be there to guide you. Again, thanks to you three for taking care of that! -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Visa invitation letters
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi, > > I have the examples of old invitations and will be able to work on the new > one tomorrow night, at the latest. > > Thanks, > Marina Awesome! -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Visa invitation letters
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Shivani Poddar wrote: > I could help here :) > Although, I'd need a little guidance as to what needs to be done, since its > my first time :) > Thanks, > Shivani Thanks a lot for volunteering! However, since we're dealing with sensitive and personnal information, I'd be more confortable if someone who's been involved for a bit longer (so a GNOME Foundation member) could take on that role. I hope you understand. Cheers -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Visa invitation letters
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:21 AM, David King wrote: > Hi Hey, > The travel committee has sent out most sponsorship acceptances now, and some > people have replied mentioning that they need to apply for visas, and would > need invitation letters. There is a blank space for "visa applications" on > the GUADEC wiki page: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/Team > > Who has the responsibility of sending invitation letters? Nobody stepped up to take care of this. If anyone reading this want to do it, let the list know. > It would be good to fill in the blank space on the wiki page, so that I can > direct people to the right place. Indeed. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] BoF and hackfest room availability
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:49 AM, David King wrote: > Hi Hey, > The venue page of the GUADEC 2014 wiki lists two large rooms for talks: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/Venue > > Is there any information about rooms for the hackfest/BoF days after (and > possibly before) the conference? > > Names of rooms, availability and approximate room capacity would be useful > to add to the BoF planning page. We still don't know if we'll remain in the same building for BOFs or if we'll move to another one. The building where the core days happen has 3 classrooms, the other one is still to be defined. The university would prefer that we stay in the same building, but 3 classrooms + 2 lecture halls may not be a good fit for BOFs. I'll let the list know as soon as I have news on this topic. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Potential keynoters
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > Hi all, I would like to propose upgrading Nathan Willis's talk to a > keynote, assuming that he would be interested. It is titled "Should we > teach the robot to kill" and is about the ethics of programming. The > subject came up recently in media specifically with regards to > self-driving cars. Great idea. Please do ask him. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Proposing keynote speaker: Andrew Bliss
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Michael Hasselmann wrote: > Alright, next candidate: Andrew Bliss, Valve Corp. > Reasoning: Saw him at UDS-R and gaming on Linux is something people talk > about. Also, SteamOS ships GNOME stuff so there is a certain business > aspect to that, too. > > Here's the keynote from UDS-R: > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNrrpnPlBrk&t=0h13m10s> Last year Ryan Gordon and Sam Lantinga, who both work at Valve and have a history of helping gaming on Linux (SDL, Loki software…) have been approached last year and while they weren't able to come, to showed interest for "next year" (so for GUADEC 2014). Rui and Christian were the ones that contacted them. We should definitely see if they are still willing to come. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2014 organization meeting
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Erm... is this today (Tuesday November 26th) or on Thursday November 28th?? Sorry, it's on Thursday November 28th. Thanks for catching that. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] GUADEC 2014 organization meeting
Hi, As you should know by now, next GUADEC will happen in summer 2014 in Strasbourg, France. The first online meeting for the organization will happen on Tuesday November 28th 2013 at 15:00 CEST (14:00 UTC) on #guadec on irc.gnome.org and you're welcome to join us. As it's the first one, I'm announcing it on foundation-list as well. If you're interested in GUADEC organization and want to see the next announcements, please subscribe to guadec-list. The agenda is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/Meetings/20131128 Have a nice day. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Debarshi Ray wrote: > - Someone from GNOME (Lennart?) > Can be a good to highlight some of the big things that we want to push > through. eg., the application story. I think that's a really good idea. Xan was mentionned on IRC as well. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Regular IRC Meeting
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Florian Nadge wrote: > Rui, > As I already suggested we should skip this week's meeting if there are no > urgent issues. Florian, Rui tried to make you aware of the fact that next week has a holiday on Wednesday too, but it seems you missed that. Skipping *two* weeks in a row might be a bit too much, hence Rui proposing a single meeting on another day. Rui, Friday would be fine for me too. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] twitter account still says 2012
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > https://twitter.com/guadec > This have no mention of the upcoming guadec. Same for http://identi.ca/guadec Also, as I already mentionned during the last two meetings, https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/ still looks like GUADEC 2012 is the upcoming one. Do we have meeting minutes? These should also be put there. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: > You mean someone like Dave Richards [1] from the city of Largo? That was exactly my thought as I read Jiri's proposal. -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC baby friendliness level
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:58 AM, meg ford wrote: > The Art Institute of Chicago has a nice private space that contains a chair > for breastfeeding/pumping and a changing table. It's in an area that's > accessible to both parents, so either parent can do feeding and changing. It > would be nice if we had a space like that set aside at conferences. I feel silly for asking this but I honestly have no clue: when you say a chair for breastfeeding/pumping, do you mean a special chair that has been designed for that purpose, or do you just mean that there was a regular chair (in an area) dedicated to these tasks? -- Alexandre Franke ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
