Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2017: Length and Format
Hey, On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:04:35AM +0100, Allan Day wrote: >- Switch to two days of talks and two days of "hack days". >- Advertise the conference as a four day event. The fact that the first >two days are talks would be a minor footnote only; when people say they >want to come, we give them the dates for the four days. Four days (2 + 2) sounds too short to me. In recent times we have had: * 2012: 7 days (4 + 3) * 2013: 8 days (4 + 4) * 2014: 7 days (4 + 3) * 2015: 6 days (3 + 3) * 2016: 6 days (3 + 3) While a 8 day conference with 4 days of BoFs can be considered too much, are we really struggling to fill up the slots over a 6 day (3 + 3) schedule? Last time this was discussed, there was a concern about the lack of good quality talk submissions. Did we explore the possibility of having people from Elementary and Cinnamon attend GUADEC? Why do we think that the quality of talk submissions have gone down? How about a 5 day conference? I do like the idea of advertising the conference as one unit and de-emphasizing the split between the core and BoF days. I am concerned that going from 6 to 4 days would leave us with precious little time for hallway and social interactions between people who barely meet once every year. Cheers, Rishi pgpwbymWAagoV.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Reg. travelers from Prague Airport on july 31st after 12:00 PM
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 08:14:31PM +0530, Sindhu S wrote: > From Grand Hotel in Brno to Taufer Dormitory would another tram I believe? Yes. Take tram no. 12 (going towards Technologicky Park) from Hlavni Nadrazi, and get down at Tererova. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpfFa7XaMCjx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] irc meeting
Florian is still unwell. Petr can't make it, neither can I. So, this week's IRC meeting is cancelled. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgp7SUEuRhSUF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC t-shirt order
> Yesterday, we discussed if we should order more GUADEC t-shirts. The > first order was 130 t-shirts and we have so far sold about 40 through > the registration form. Based on this number, 130 should be enough, but I > guess that a lot of people will decide to buy a t-shirt on site and last > year there were around 250 t-shirts sold. > > Should I order 100 more? Yes, I think we should order another 100. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpWXV0z7mFEO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] irc meeting
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Florian Nadge wrote: > Due to conflicting schedules we need to postpone today's irc meeting to > tomorrow 17:00 CEST/GMT+2. As mentioned elsewhere, I won't be able to attend. Sorry, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgp_x6j7odzXd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] regular irc meeting #guadec Wednesday, 10 July
Hey, > this is just a reminder for Wednesday's irc meeting: > > Wednesday, 3 July 2013 > > 16:00 (UTC +2) > > gimp.net, #guadec > > updates on the usual topics: > > - registration > - film night > - budget > - volunteers > - open floor The meeting was cancelled because I got disconnected for a while from GIMPNet which I never noticed, and since both Florian and Rui couldn't attend there was no one to speak about the "registration" and "film night". Some of us had a chat about the budget on #guadec yesterday, so I guess there isn't much to add there. I will update the local team members who weren't there on the channel yesterday today. Regarding volunteers, Florian now has the SIM card for the emergency contact that has to be on the badges. Sorry about that! Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpq26vU4Wk0Q.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Media Partner
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:39:26PM +0200, Robert Kratky wrote: >> Lets put matters in perspective. LWN has covered GUADEC in the past, >> and are likely to do so again this year. They come and silently do >> their job without asking for much in return. > > The Czech media have not asked for anything. It was GUADEC who wanted them > for partners. They were not the ones who set the terms of the partnership. It is not the Czech media that we are primarily talking about here. The bone of contention is how to deal with the new set of reporters that want to partner with us. Personally, I value LWN more than even the 3 Czech media outlets, but since GUADEC is in Brno, I think it is good to have some coverage in the local media. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpaMBJgt3MPq.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Media Partner
>> Have we actually been in touch with LWN? Do we know that someone is coming? >> > > Nathan Willis is coming, although as far as I know, no one has gotten in > touch with LWN yet. We have already asked Nathan if he is visiting GUADEC to cover it on behalf of LWN or just as a participant. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpn7B3etHnR5.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Media Partner
> Rui, > I am afraid that we really need as much media support as possible. > About the free passes, we should issue as many as they need, probably one > to three. > > Basically, we will have to add these sites if we want them to add us as > well, and they are clearly supporting us. Having media support is one thing, and bending over backwards and begging for it is another. We already have 3 Czech media partners. LWN is probably going to cover it. That makes it 4. I am all for giving free passes, but please, lets not plaster the website with logos of everyone who claims to be a reporter. It is strange to have 5 sponsors and an equal or higher number of media partners. Lets put matters in perspective. LWN has covered GUADEC in the past, and are likely to do so again this year. They come and silently do their job without asking for much in return. LWN is far more respectable and useful for us than any of these other media outlets that we are talking about, and we are not even acknowledging them while we are going crazy over some lesser entities. I find this strange. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpzc00ekOUTw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Talk at GUADEC 2013
Hey Jim,
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:49:18PM -0007, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I couldn't find a proper email address on the GUADEC web site, so I'm
> using this list address -- someone please redirect me if this is going
> to the wrong people.
>
> I just discovered today (via a coworker) that my proposed talk at
> GUADEC ("Crowdfunding the GNOME Desktop") was accepted. I never
> received a notification, or if I did, it must've gone into my spam
> folder. In any event, due to that and some personal changes, I had not
> planned on attending GUADEC this year.
>
> If someone could respond, I'd like to discuss the situation. There's
> still a possibility I could attend.
>
> Thanks,
I have CC'ed the GUADEC Papers Committee. They will be able to help
you further.
Cheers,
Debarshi
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Re: [guadec-list] reminder for next irc meeting: Wednesday, 26 June 2013
> updates on the usual topics: > > - registration > - visa requirements > - volunteers > - open floor I would like to put these on the agenda too: - T-shirt sizes - tax / VAT / prices Cheers, Rishi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgp6zaLts8Itx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Cool Stuff at GUADEC
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:42:43PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > BTW we're planning to order around 40 red t-shirts for organizers and > volunteers, but if you have a better colour idea, it's welcome. I can > order any colour that is in the catalogue. I think we need more than 40 because some people said that they did not want to wear the same T-shirt on multiple days. I think 100 would be a better number. Regards, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgplgUy__arRB.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] reminder for today's irc meeting 16:00 CEST (UTC +2)
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:25:04AM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > One bit of info I have: Igalia is signing on as a silver sponsor. Is there a specific logo that they want us to use for the website? Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgptV_SxbVdLg.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Call for volunteers?
>> * the volunteer coordinator needs one phone (usually with a pre-paid SIM) >> that can be passed to whomever is in charge of volunteers so that all >> volunteers can get in touch with them at any point >> * the volunteer coordinator phone needs to be pre-programmed with mobile >> contact numbers for all volunteers (this was a point of failure in some of >> the previous conferences) - volunteers usually use their own phones/SIMs >> because this is only in case of problems and walkie-talkies not working >> > > rishi, any updates on getting a "volunteer coordinator" phone? Getting a pre-paid SIM is easy, and arranging a phone to go along with it shouldn't be hard. So, I was not treating this as something that has to be done *now*. Do you want us to have the phone and SIM in our hands right now? Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpsWHPPbZnBc.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Reminder: next IRC meeting Wednesday, 5 June 2013
> - update on collabra sponsorship (rishi) There isn't much to report on this front. I informed Karen that Collabora is open to sponsoring the video recording / post-processing expenses. Now it is up to her. I don't want to interfere because she has been talking to the sponsors, and I would rather not get in the way. Can we add the following to the agenda: - update on meeting with student union (tpopela, rishi, xmlich) - how many free passes to the university (xmlich) Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpGBtrq0mxmj.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] invite for regular IRC meeting, Wednesday, 29 May, 16:00 CEST (UTC+2)
> Topics: > - update on accomodation options (fnadged) > - canteen during the conference days (tpopella) > - news: collabra sponsorship > - web presentation , missing content (discussion) > - reception party at the Taufer dorm? (discussion) > - volunteers (discussion) > - open floor > - Billing during the conference (robert?) A couple of items that came up while I was speaking with Kat: - pre-paid SIM cards to be handed out to volunteers from abroad, and to be used as the emergency contact on the badges - someone to co-coordinate the volunteers during the event along with Jiri because Kat won't be doing that Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpfZhXzypIQY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Call for volunteers?
> Hi, does anyone have any idea when the call for volunteers will happen? We can do it now. Is there anything that needs to be sorted out before that can happen? > I would very much like to encourage them to volunteer to > help out at the conference. For this, I need some link or information about > who they need to contact to volunteer. Shouldn't they just be contacting you? :-) Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpZ0_ZJtnqna.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] [guadec-local] Today's IRC meeting Wednesday 22nd May 2013 at 17:00 hr CET
> Agenda: > - Keynotes These are the names that have come up till now from the 2nd round of discussions on guadec-list: - Lea Verou, W3C - Cathy Malrose, ZaReason - Jan Wildeboer, Red Hat - Jaroslav Reznik, Fedora - Lennart Poettering, GNOME Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpVQwiftn6ga.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
> As someone who invited keynotes for most of the past 10 years, I have > been surprised not to see lists of potential keynotes What do you mean? This thread is titled "Keynote speakers brainstorming" and is full of potential keynotes. Some were contacted, some turned us down and some agreed. As Rui pointed out earlier, we still need 2 more. Hence the renewed traffic. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpDYtsYgsOj6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ 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 07, 2013 at 06:48:53PM +0200, Rui Tiago Cao Matos wrote: > one month has passed and I'm happy to say that we have 2 confirmed > keynote speakers but we are still missing 2 more so I'd like to ask > for more suggestions again! > > [...] > > I should point out that Sumana Harihareswara, Sue Gardner, Anne Gentle > and Ryan Gordon all declined the invitations. Here are some suggestions: - Jan Wildeboer, http://wildeboer.net/, Red Hat Needs little introduction and can talk on a variety of topics. Based out of Munich. - Jaroslav Reznik, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik, Fedora Represents one of the downstream consumer of GNOME. Based out of Brno. - Someone (Florian Schiessl?) from LiMux, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux They are using KDE, but can still be interesting. Based out of Munich. - Someone from Mozilla Large free software project with a stronger brand than GNOME's -- surely we have something to learn from them. Also, the web is in vogue. - Someone from WebKit Same as above, but more closely affiliated to GNOME via WebKitGTK+. - 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. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgphtYZUHClt_.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Local team meeting
> I suggested doing a local team meeting to discuss pressing issues and > get things moving in the last IRC meeting[1] so let's schedule it. > > I asked to a few people and they seemed to be OK with doing it next > Monday, 20th, at 5pm. Is that OK? > > The place will probably be Taverna, the Greek restaurant near the Red > Hat offices, unless there are better suggestions. In any case, Monday is fine with me. What about the others? Jiri, Florian, Josef, Robert? Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgp5S2ApOVz0Y.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] Today's IRC meeting Wednesday 15th May 2013 at 17:00 hr CET
Hello everybody! We are going to have our next IRC meeting today at 17:00 hr CET or 15:00 hr UTC in #guadec on GIMPNet. Agenda: - Social events (vbenes, fnadge) - Keynotes (rishi) - Payments (karenesq, robert) - Registration (fnadge, sesivany, rtcm) - Website (rtcm, andreasn) Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpyR8pKfE75J.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] IRC meeting tomorrow
> Wednesday, 24 Apr. 2013, 4:30 p.m. > > As topics I suggest: > > - updates on the venue (xmlich, rui) > - updates on social events (vbenes) > - updates on accomodation (nudged) > - updates on sponsorship (karenesque?) We should also check where we stand with respect to the keynotes. Rui and Christian contacted Ryan Gordon [1] and Sam Latinga [2]. They won't be able to come this year, but they would be interested in coming next year. Has anyone contacted the prospective candidates from Wikimedia? Any other candidates that we have contacted? Cheers, Debarshi [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpLUkTl0FfwD.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] Cancelled: Today's IRC meeting Wednesday 17th April, 2013 at 16:30 hr CET
Hello everybody! Today's IRC meeting at 16:30 hr CET or 14:30 hr UTC in #guadec on GIMPNet is cancelled. There is an open house going at the Red Hat offices in Brno, and some members of the GUADEC organizing team are busy acting as guides for the visitors, presenting their own free software projects, etc.. So we will meet next week (ie. the 24th of April). Cheers, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgpiwt1z3MIC1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] Next IRC meeting Wednesday 10th April, 2013 at 16:30 hr CET
Hello everybody! We are going to have our next IRC meeting tomorrow at 16:30 hr CET or 14:30 hr UTC in #guadec on GIMPNet. Agenda: - Social events (vbenes) - Video recording (rishi, tpopela) - Website (rtcm) - Entry fee & discounts for students (karen) Please note that the time is 16:30 hr CET, not 16:00 hr and the channel is #guadec, not #guadec-planning Pushing the meeting back by half an hour would enable Florian (fnadge) to attend it in future after his office hours. We decided to use #guadec because GIMPNet has an upper limit on the number of channels one can join, and so it would be helpful for some of us to not be in one extra channel. #guadec is silent, unused and more well-known so lets just use it. Cheers, Debarshi pgpVAZYjQq8um.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
> * Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) > * Application development and deployment Ryan Gordon fits these two categories as one of the most well-known game Linux developers. Cheers, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgpQt0rL3cvVY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Number of talks
Please, lets not mix up threads across multiple mailing lists. This was sent to guadec-papers for a reason, so lets keep the discussion there. Thanks, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgpm6y90LDuAH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Keynote speakers brainstorming
> What about inviting a "representative of users"? I suppose there some > larger deployments of GNOME no matter if it's on RHEL or SUSE or some > other system. There are also companies that build their solutions on > GNOME technologies. I've always felt that such voices (of those that use > the software in day-to-day business) are not emphasised enough at > conferences such as GUADEC. You mean someone like Dave Richards [1] from the city of Largo? Cheers, Debarshi [1] http://davelargo.blogspot.cz/ -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgpmxCzS8V3bK.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
