Bug#1068786: ITS: latencytop

2024-04-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello, You, or other DD or DM can take maintainership of it. Zero objections. ciao     cate On 2024-04-11 2:41, Boyuan Yang wrote: Source: latencytop Version: 0.5.0-0.1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: c...@debian.org Dear package latencytop maintainer in Debian, After looking into the

Re: Call for bids for DebConf24

2023-11-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 1 Nov 2023 17:46, Andreas Tille wrote: Am Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 12:28:41PM +0100 schrieb Aigars Mahinovs: Specifically Heidelberg, Vaumarcus, Cáceres spring my mind as quite I'd fully support this idea but I'm not sure whether the local team members of Vaumarcus and Cáceres are very active

Bug#1009826: ITS: screentest

2022-04-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello, I'm OK with ITS. ciao cate On 18.04.2022 20:20, Boyuan Yang wrote: Source: screentest Version: 2.0-2.2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: c...@debian.org Dear package screentest maintainer in Debian, After looking into the package you maintain (screentest,

Bug#999282: spell: diff for NMU version 1.0-24.1

2021-12-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Thank you for the patch. No need to have a longer queue. ciao cate On 14.12.2021 19:13, gregor herrmann wrote: Control: tags 999282 + patch Control: tags 999282 + pending Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for spell (versioned as 1.0-24.1) and uploaded it to DELAYED/5. Please

Bug#999282: spell: diff for NMU version 1.0-24.1

2021-12-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Thank you for the patch. No need to have a longer queue. ciao cate On 14.12.2021 19:13, gregor herrmann wrote: Control: tags 999282 + patch Control: tags 999282 + pending Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for spell (versioned as 1.0-24.1) and uploaded it to DELAYED/5. Please

Re: python3.5 + oldstable dilemma

2021-03-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 01.03.2021 04:15, Bailey, Josh wrote: I'm a maintainer for a python based SDN network controller, FAUCET. One of the platforms we've been supporting to-date is python3.5/oldstable. Of course, now, python3.5 is EOL. To some degree we can keep building our package under python3.5, but now

Re: intel microcode issue with Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9980HK CPU @ 2.40GHz

2021-01-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello, It is difficult to help. I'm not sure if it is an error of the package. In that case, just remove the package. Maybe you can try to load the microcodes with a BIOS update (this is the recommended method of Intel). Or maybe you should contact Intel. It can be either a microcode

Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian 10?

2021-01-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 09.01.2021 20:42, James Wallen wrote: On 1/9/21 9:48 AM, Christoph Pflügler wrote: With an E3 v5, linux 4.19.0-13, and intel-microcode 3.20200616.1 the checker reports green for those checks on my test system. Do you have the latest spectre-meltdown-checker, and are you running it as

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Helmut On 12.10.2020 19:30, Helmut Grohne wrote: You appear to be talking about binary packages. This bug is about source packages. When you unpack a source package, you are creating a directory hiearchy rooted at the point where you start unpacking. There is not possibly any reasonable

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Helmut On 12.10.2020 19:30, Helmut Grohne wrote: You appear to be talking about binary packages. This bug is about source packages. When you unpack a source package, you are creating a directory hiearchy rooted at the point where you start unpacking. There is not possibly any reasonable

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 12.10.2020 16:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems What do you mean? If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a different filesystems, and I

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 12.10.2020 16:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems What do you mean? If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a different filesystems, and I

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 13.09.2020 12:52, Helmut Grohne wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.3 Severity: wishlist Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine.

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 13.09.2020 12:52, Helmut Grohne wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.3 Severity: wishlist Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine.

Re: /home/loser is with permissions 755, default umask 0022

2020-10-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07.10.2020 12:39, Georgi Guninski wrote: /home/loser is with permissions 755, default umask 0022 on multiuser machines this sucks much. on a multiuser debian mirror we found a lot of data, including the wordpress password of the admin. Welcome to user webpage nightmare. How would you

Bug#969113: spell: Please upload new upstream version 1.1

2020-08-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 27.08.2020 21:33, Tobias Frost wrote: Package: spell Severity: wishlist Thank you! Note: Debian version is more advanced than upstream. It may need some work to merge both "upstreams" (but GNU one had stricter requirement for copyright assignment, especially for such small wrapper).

Re: Incident response at DC20 (and onward)

2020-05-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 06.05.20 18:46, Molly de Blanc wrote: Hi DebConf Team, I'm contacting you on behalf of the Community Team. We'd like to open a channel of communication around Code of Conduct enforcement and incident response at DebConf. While DefConf is under the organization of the DebConf Team, we're

Re: Master-Slave terminology Re: [Piuparts-devel] piuparts.d.o stalled?

2020-02-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 13.02.2020 09:14, Timo Weingärtner wrote: Hallo Ulrike, Quoting from there: "Master-slave is an oppressive metaphor that will and should never become fully detached from history." I don't think giving slaves new labels helps them in any way; they will still be slaves. You missed the

Re: More info for DebConf21 Lisbon bid

2020-02-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 05.02.2020 12:01, Judit Foglszinger wrote: And note also: professional fee is usually around the "covering own costs", and we have many attendees which are not sponsored but also not "professional or corporate", so they are still a cost for DebConf organization. Out of curiosity - Are

Re: More info for DebConf21 Lisbon bid

2020-02-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 04.02.2020 16:41, Daniel Lange wrote: Hi again, another interesting data point may be: ~40 attendees paid for the professional or corporate registration. So 90% were attending for free. And note also: professional fee is usually around the "covering own costs", and we have many

Bug#945181: ITA: libg15render -- Library for interfacing with the Logitech G15 keyboards

2019-11-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Chris, Alexander already asked me about packages, and I have nothing again getting it adopted. Just I had no time (and hardware) to handle the packages, and the lack of upstream worries my a lot (e.g. security, but also upgrading support libraries). ciao cate On 27.11.19

Re: debian-private leaked on pastebin, worried

2019-08-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 5 Aug 2019 20:17, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 12:51:06PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Did anyone actually bother to click on the link? How much of debian-private (from when to when) was leaked? If no one even bothered to look, well, that's fine too. Several initial (?)

Re: anti-tarball clause and GPL

2019-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 24.07.2019 00:49, Adam Borowski wrote: Hi! In the light of the currently discussed GR proposal, I wonder if the following license clause would be considered DFSG-free and GPL-compatible: ## I do not consider a flat tarball to be a preferred form for modification. Thus, like

Re: Debconf Saint-Petersburg

2019-07-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Yury, On 23.07.2019 12:26, Юрий Андреев wrote: Dear colleague, Has the next conference location been chosen? Thank you! Yes, DebConf for 2020 is already decided (Haifa). November was somewhat late to start a bid. But DebConf for 2021 is undecided. Now bidding team should start to

Re: Debconf Saint-Petersburg

2019-07-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Yury, On 23.07.2019 12:26, Юрий Андреев wrote: Dear colleague, Has the next conference location been chosen? Thank you! Yes, DebConf for 2020 is already decided (Haifa). November was somewhat late to start a bid. But DebConf for 2021 is undecided. Now bidding team should start to

Re: farewell

2019-07-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 23.07.19 08:32, Aron Xu wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:16 AM Ximin Luo wrote: Mo Zhou: [..] Oh, Gnome. It's a pity that the "software stores" started to think they know "what the user want" [..] Just use XFCE. I ditched GNOME years ago and am much happier for it. The GNOME

Re: DC20: Questions regarding device inspections at the airport

2019-03-21 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 21.03.2019 10:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Tzafrir! Thanks for organizing DebConf20 in Israel, I'm looking forward to traveling to Haifa, the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. Now, I have done some initial research regarding traveling to Israel on the website of my country's

Bug#899007: bauble: Depends on unmaintained python-gdata

2019-03-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Andreas, I gave the package to Mario Frasca, which then orphaned the package: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903644 gdata is not the only problem, there are other dependencies (which seems to be more complex to solve). Additionally as far I know there is no interest

Bug#899007: bauble: Depends on unmaintained python-gdata

2019-03-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Andreas, I gave the package to Mario Frasca, which then orphaned the package: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903644 gdata is not the only problem, there are other dependencies (which seems to be more complex to solve). Additionally as far I know there is no interest

Bug#914888: RM: g15deamoni, libg15 -- ROM; abandoned upstream (and upstream host serves malware)

2018-11-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hello masters! As maintainer, I request to remove g15deamon and libg15 packages. Note: the two packages are interdependent (part of A needs B, and part of B needs A), so the two packages should be removed in parallel. Upstream team is MIA since much

Re: List of members

2018-09-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 02.09.18 17:49, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Hi, Can we have a page listing Committee members and teams members (staff?) like video, registration, sponsorship/fundraising, content, and so on? I believe it's important to know "who is who". I'm not sure if it should be here:

Re: Photo policy for DebConf

2018-08-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 05.08.2018 17:44, Carl Karsten wrote: I think it is an excellent compromise I don't. I'd like to bring up priorities. photos are an important way to show what happens at an event to the world, Who are these people and why do they need to see photos? There is no cabal, right? We are

Re: Needless restriction to DebConf18 statistics page

2018-08-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
there are people names (volunteers). -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. On 6 August 2018 04:45:12 CEST, Kentaro Hayashi wrote: >Hi, > >Thank you for DebConf18 team and atendees! I could enjoyed DebConf18! > >By the way, the following page is required login

Re: Shipping Debian merch/goodies to India

2018-08-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Please note that this is also a good occasion for bid Debconf committee to setup a group of people, start organising thing together, and also start to think all financial issues that we have on paying and selling stuffs. This is an important first step. (remember that talk is cheap and

Re: Gandi at the Debconf

2018-07-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 26.07.2018 08:30, Thomas Kuiper wrote: > Hello, > > after your feedback we (Gandi.net) are happy to extend the Member Benefits to > Debian Maintainers! > So both Developers and Maintainers can get our lowest rates. Thank you very much! > To do so simply send an OpenPGP signed email that

Re: Talk/event proposals "Closed source"

2018-03-21 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 20.03.2018 23:07, Carl Karsten wrote: > Can someone elaborate on why > "unfortunately means rejecting some." > is a reason to keep anything about this secret? Because if we make public the rejection, less people will submit talks. Debian (and Free Software) communities suffer of the impostor

Bug#886247: program dies with 'Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/bin/listadmin line 556'

2018-01-03 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: listadmin Version: 2.42-1 Severity: normal If I press 'b' to check the body of the mail, the program dies. This is the first time in a lot of years of moderation, so I assume bad formatting in spam. [2/4] == commun...@lists.debian.ch = From:

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf lists migration to lists.debian.org

2017-09-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 17.09.2017 16:50, Daniel Lange wrote: > Hi, > > the DebConf team is currently preparing another try to migrate the > DebConf specific infrastructure to Debian, DSA supported, solutions. > > Along this we would like to migrate the mailing lists > > Debconf-announce Debconf

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf lists migration to lists.debian.org

2017-09-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 19.09.2017 15:17, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > >> On 17.09.2017 16:50, Daniel Lange wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> the DebConf team is currently preparing another try to migrate the >>> DebConf specific in

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf lists migration to lists.debian.org

2017-09-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 17.09.2017 16:50, Daniel Lange wrote: > Hi, > > the DebConf team is currently preparing another try to migrate the > DebConf specific infrastructure to Debian, DSA supported, solutions. > > Along this we would like to migrate the mailing lists > > Debconf-announce Debconf

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: Re: Revision of DebConf CoC

2017-05-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
[using this mail to reply Martin, so that I have all CC] > El 15/05/17 a las 15:07, martin f krafft escribió: >> The original proposal listed a number of potential consequences to >> offences, among other more concrete incidence response processes. >> >> What's the reason you didn't include those

Re: [Debconf-team] Revision of DebConf CoC

2017-05-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello, On 05.05.2017 13:46, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Hi everybody (...) > I'm attaching 3 documents: > > The current code of conduct (debconf_coc_current.txt) > The proposal that is on the table (debconf_coc_proposal2.txt) > A second proposal that I put on the table (debconf_coc_proposal2.txt)

Re: [Debconf-discuss] suggestion to add visa details needed in the web-form itself

2016-12-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 20:19, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 07/12/2016, Giacomo Catenazzi <c...@cateee.net> wrote: >> Hello Shirish >> > > Hello Cate, > > > >> >> I’m not sure it will work. >> >&

Re: [Debconf-discuss] suggestion to add visa details needed in the web-form itself

2016-12-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Shirish > On 7 Dec 2016, at 18:06, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am not a programmer, just a user. > > I was going through the pain points and suggestions I had given > (either publicly or/and privately) to improve debconf flow, maybe part > of it could

Bug#846490: missing tar(5) manpage

2016-12-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: tar Version: 1.27.1-2+deb8u1 Severity: minor on manpage of tar, I see: SEE ALSO tar(5) But this manpage (and file) don't exist in this or in other packages. It seems that a lot of information (but invocation) is missing in tar(1). ciao cate -- System Information: Debian

Bug#839624: Changing default fonts doesn't change bold version (so text is display incorrectly, with missing part of letters)

2016-10-03 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: qterminal Version: 0.6.1~102-g58f4f72-1 Severity: normal I just installed the font "inconsolata" (from package fonts-inconsolata), and set it in the preferences of qterminal. Now when I do a "ls" (with ls color as default), on qterminal I find that some names (directories, in bold blue)

[Debconf-team] cate's feedback

2016-07-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
[I sent the original mail to dc16 local people, but I think I should make it public, for dc17 organisers, so I remove the very few sentences about my non-involvements. I send this on a public mailing list, because I don't understand the need of the feedback alias, especially if it is read outside

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf16

2016-07-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 11.07.2016 11:57, Tammy Manning wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Is there anything we need to do post-debConf? Apart from the final report? - close booking (accounting) - sent thank you letter to sponsors (but this should be decided by fundraising) - Finding home to random stuffs (and lost+found) -

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Photos (and shirts) [was: DebCamp Announcements 2016-06-28]

2016-07-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 06 Jul 2016, at 23:07, Stefano Rivera wrote: > > Hi debconf-discuss (2016.07.06_20:03:50_+0200) >> Selections have been made, see [0] >> >> [0]: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/DebconfShirts >> >> We are still looking for shirts from dc 3 and 4. > > We have

Re: [Debconf-team] Afternoon Meeting

2016-07-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 04 Jul 2016, at 15:26, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Tammy Manning dijo [Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:10:04PM +0200]: >> Hi Everyone >> >> I am off to do a couple of things. >> What time is the Team meeting? and where? >> I was half awake this morning. > > IIRC, towards the end of

Re: [Debconf-discuss] warning: connections through JNB

2016-07-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 01.07.2016 13:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently JNB is testing a new biometric system at immigration, and the > queue there is just huge (~ 2 hours this morning). > > If you have a connecting flight, you are supposed to talk to someone and > jump the queue, but I reached the only

Re: [Debconf-discuss] clothes, dress code for debconf

2016-06-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 11 Jun 2016, at 16:39, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > All of the above was pretty useful so I just dumped it at > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Clothing_and_Dress_code . For > the record, the only time I'll be nude will be at a nudist camp ;) >

Re: [Debconf-discuss] clothes, dress code for debconf

2016-06-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 11 Jun 2016, at 12:36, Bernelle Verster wrote: > > Hi shirish > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> >> Can somebody share some guidelines for debconf. I know it is and can >> be a touchy subject as clothes are pretty

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf T's

2016-06-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 05 Jun 2016, at 10:48, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > It would be good if the staff and video people have hoodies so people > can differentiate and see them easily in a crowd. T-shirts are also > good provided they have a different scheme altogether. With hoodies, > the

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Is travel sponsorship equated to remuneration for visa purposes - in South Africa ?

2016-05-20 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 20.05.2016 14:17, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > > I'll be traveling to South Africa for an open-source conference > (debconf) for which I'll get my flight-tickets reimbursed at the end > of the conference. Could/Would this reimbursement be in anyway equated > to remuneration ? I would

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Budget - Last call

2016-04-20 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Nigel > On 14 Apr 2016, at 11:42, Nigel Kukard wrote: > > Last mail I promise! > > I've added the budget to etherpad... > https://storm.debian.net/shared/ECWWxE8B5jQtzY71txlpunpxvl8I76fFDEXTAnsxBJK > > This way its easier to comment and I can update it without walls

Re: [Debconf-team] Suggestion for DC17+ fundraising brochure: advertising service vs. ad space

2016-04-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Martin, On 12.04.2016 09:29, martin f krafft wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working with a bunch of highly professional > fundraisers and learning. There are also a couple of ideas to pass > along for us to consider for the next fundraising brochure(s). > > The most common mistake in

[Debconf-team] Budget and allocated money

2016-03-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Team, In the team meeting of yesterday, I got the impression that we are interpreting budget in different ways (and I just realised that some problems on budget discussion of last year could have been caused from different interpretations). For me a budget (for DebConf) is a best

[Debconf-team] Donations to DebConf

2016-03-20 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello -team, In previous years we had the possibility to give donation to DebConf, and IIRC we got donations at every DebConf. Should we handle donation also this year? Using SPI? Onsite? Both? BTW the links (both from http://debconf14.debconf.org/payments.xhtml ):

Re: [Debconf-team] minidebconf vienna 2016?

2015-12-22 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello chrysn, as nobody replied you, I give you some hints (I never been a mini-debconf organizer, so take it with a grain of salt). On 16.12.2015 19:04, chrysn wrote: > hello debconf team, > > a plan has come up during debconf15 to host a minidebconf in 2016 in > vienna. nice. > from you

Re: [Debconf-team] Why a new DebConf delegation won't help

2015-11-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 11.11.2015 20:47, martin f krafft wrote: > Since then, we've seen a spectrum of problems, from the team unable > to make decision constantly deferring to the chairs and burning them > out, to there being a divide between chairs and some of the team, > bringing focus to the powers attributed

Re: [Debconf-team] On the "local team"

2015-10-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Note: this mail was written more than a week ago, but real life delayed it. So I'll sent it now, but I've not yet read the follow-up of previous mails (I saw there are some but...), and maybe there is some repetition. But now I'll stop writting and I'll send it, and I go full immersion again to

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf meetings this week

2015-09-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 22 Sep 2015, at 23:00, Philip Hands wrote: > > Margarita Manterola writes: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Philip Hands wrote: >>> Could someone explain the purpose of the co-ordination team? >> >> From last

Re: [Debconf-team] Fixing the Debconf Delagation (was: Re: DebConf meetings this week)

2015-09-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
> On 23 Sep 2015, at 21:51, martin f krafft wrote: >>> The other (more exceptional) power that the chairs have to >>> interfere with day-to-day affairs is also problematic: >>> overriding decisions >>> >>> While this is only used rarely, >> >> Actually, the value of that

Re: [Debconf-team] [Protest] Changes should come from within the team and not from above

2015-08-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Marga, On 28 Aug 2015, at 11:59, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: The DebConf Chairs are supposed to be leading the team. Leading may mean sometimes taking hard decisions, but most of the time it should mean guiding, working with the team towards achieving

Re: [Debconf-team] [Protest] Changes should come from within the team and not from above

2015-08-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 28 Aug 2015, at 13:05, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: (…) Imagine if tomorrow the DPL would send a mail to d-d-a saying that the chairs are replaced by foo, bar, baz, and you learn about it from the mail. Would you be happy about that? Even if you had been thinking

Re: [Debconf-team] [Protest] Changes should come from within the team and not from above

2015-08-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 28 Aug 2015, at 13:44, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: (…) If the team decides that I'm not the best person to lead the coordination team, I'm perfectly happy to step aside and let someone else do it. If the chairs decide this without even explaining to me why, then

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

2015-08-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Marga, On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: (…) The pre-registration period is for people that are requesting sponsorship or submitting event proposals. They would only express their intent on going to DebConf (and DebCamp if applicable) and

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

2015-08-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Gaudenz, On 25.08.2015 09:11, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Hello Marga, On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: (...) When the registration period opens, everyone needs to fill in all their registration

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

2015-08-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 25.08.2015 10:26, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/08/15 at 09:11 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: One month for bursaries is tight, but doable if we are well prepared. 1 1/2 months would be better. It mostly needs someone to drive the process as David did it this year. At the bursaries Bof we

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

2015-08-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Lucas, On 25.08.2015 11:48, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/08/15 at 11:37 +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Note: food and accommodation is really a yes/no. But travel sponsorship, which requires a lot more money, is much more difficult. We will not have enough money, IMHO, for most

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] DC15 announcements of 2015-08-14

2015-08-18 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 18 Aug 2015, at 12:53, Jens Thiele ka...@karme.de wrote: Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes: Lightning Talks and Live Demos == More lightning talks and live demos are still welcome and needed! Submit your lightning talk or live demo to

Re: [Debconf-team] About lunch/dinner queues

2015-08-16 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 16 Aug 2015, at 12:12, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: Folks, Daniel ran around the venue last night telling people to eat when the queue was empty. If you see small queues during meal times, please consider using the PA system at reception to make an announcement for

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Schedule for mobile

2015-08-16 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 16 Aug 2015, at 15:24, Daniel Maslowski i...@orangecms.org wrote: Hi everyone, I've quickly created a mobile-friendly version of the schedule at http://188.166.12.207/debconf15/ It serves static XML (which might take some seconds to load) because Summit doesn't send CORS headers

[Debconf-team] Call for volunteers for DebConf sites (for both python/django and html/css/js)

2015-08-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello DebConfers, We are planing the sites for next debconfs and we would like to form a real team for such website (registration, schedule, homepages). As you probably are aware, we constantly lack web designers. Debconf already has designers (logo, and general design), but maintaining the

Re: [Debconf-team] Call for volunteers for DebConf sites (for both python/django and html/css/js)

2015-08-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 13 Aug 2015, at 10:30, Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.pro wrote: On 13/08/15 09:09, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Hello DebConfers, We are planing the sites for next debconfs and we would like to form a real team for such website (registration, schedule, homepages

[Debconf-video] Managing volunteers during DebConf

2015-07-31 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello -team, We would like to improve our use of volunteers during DebConf. In the past we sometimes did quite well at recruiting and using volunteers for the video team and for talk management roles, but we also left a lot of people who wanted to volunteer unused, while sometimes lacking people

Bug#781098: summit.debconf.org: full name from registration form should be used instead of first name + last name

2015-07-30 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Fixed in ba50877e8c0742d8ac9c19b8f553f54ec1648ce9 and deployed. Sorry if we ignored the bug for so much time. ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Debconf-team] Conf dinner logistics challenge

2015-07-10 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Martin, On 09.07.2015 15:05, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org [2015-07-08 16:33 +0200]: 2. I've inquired whether we could have 2–3 additional 20-seaters so that we could ferry 120–160 people in each go, meaning we could do it in 3 runs.

Re: [Debconf-team] Conf dinner logistics challenge

2015-07-08 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 08.07.2015 16:33, martin f krafft wrote: I am strongly in favour of (3) if we get additional busses. If not, then we'll have to work with (1). I don't think (2) is going to improve things enough. I also believe 1.5km is a reasonable distance to walk once — we won't have the problem

Re: [Debconf-team] role in debian

2015-06-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello chrysn, On 09.06.2015 07:27, chrysn wrote: hello debconf team, the registration server and i disagree on my role in debian -- i've repeatedly told it to list me as debian contributor (including maintainer, ...), but it is stubborn and lists me as project member (all dds). not that

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 conf dinner budget extension

2015-05-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Neil, On 07.05.2015 20:23, Neil McGovern wrote: Hi cate, (...) Great, thanks for this! By any chance, do you have a copy of the budget handy? If not, I can go digging around in the leader@ archives - but there's a /lot/ of spam in there. This is the budget lucas approved.

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget PDF snapshots (was: DC15 conf dinner budget extension)

2015-05-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07 May 2015, at 21:46, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org [2015-05-07 20:41 +0200]: Can I ask you, Martin, to make an extract (maybe as pdf as you did for first draft), so that in future we will know what setting are needed

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 conf dinner budget extension

2015-05-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Neil and Martin, The Chairs, after listening the opinions of the team and after a lot of discussion, recommend the DPL to increase the DebConf budget by 4000 EUR for the conference dinner. With the new income from fundraising, this increase will not compromise a balanced budget. Saying

Re: [Debconf-team] Schedule proposals and decision for the next meeting

2015-03-30 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 29 Mar 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: Please discuss it also with video, to see if they can manage the schedule/which slots cannot be recorded. I'm not sure what you mean here. 90 minutes should be enough time for every member of the video team

Re: [Debconf-team] Helping the budget get approved

2015-03-21 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Martin, On 21 Mar 2015, at 09:50, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: Hello chairs and DPL, to facilitate your job of approving the base case budget, please allow me to provide a few bits of additional information: (…) Note: in this mail there is nothing that influences

Bug#780462: summit.debian.org: T-Shirt sizes uses (e.g.) large vs female large

2015-03-14 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 14 Mar 2015, at 16:47, Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: Package: summit.debconf.org Hi, The T-shirt sizes field in the registration field gives the following options: * Small ... Extra extra large

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 12.03.2015 12:26, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 11:32 +0100]: OK, then, provided the chairs agree as well (as they know more about the details than myself), I think I'm fine with all the expenses listed in the worst case scenario in the

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Martin, On 09 Mar 2015, at 19:40, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach martin f krafft madd...@debian.org [2015-03-03 22:02 +0100]: Ideally, you could send this to me by Sunday afternoon. The reason is that the only real time I have next week for this is Sunday and

Re: [Debconf-team] CoC and suitable for people aged 12 or above

2015-03-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Enrico, On 04.03.2015 13:08, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, I noticed in http://debconf.org/codeofconduct.shtml, that is required to be accepted by speakers in DebConf, that is still says All presentation material should be suitable for people aged 12 and above. It use the word should,

Re: [Debconf-team] Suggestions for improving our IRC meetings

2015-03-03 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 03.03.2015 11:46, Margarita Manterola wrote: For future meetings I plan to: 1) When there seems to be agreement on something but it's not 100% clear do: marga suggests: #agreed we should do foo/bar/baz This could help, allowing a short answer (No), so who disagree can have time to

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 25.02.2015 07:53, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Santiago Ruano Rincón santi...@debian.org [2015-02-24 23:41 +0100]: santiago what about not having a default about food? the diet field could be mandatory, with an empty option by default ... santiago a real *-tagged field I think

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 21.02.2015 16:11, martin f krafft wrote: At the same time, I think we could try to avoid speaking about vegetarians and vegans as restricted, which has a bit of a negative connotation, or so I've been told numerous times now. Why? It is a restriction of food choice. All of us have food

Re: [Debconf-video] [Debconf-team] Draft schedule format

2015-02-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 17.02.2015 15:59, Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Santiago Ruano Rincón santi...@debian.org wrote: I would agree also for ending breakfast earlier (but I see in titanpad that people objected). Another option would be to announce the info at 10:00, in the

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft schedule format

2015-02-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 17.02.2015 15:59, Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Santiago Ruano Rincón santi...@debian.org wrote: I would agree also for ending breakfast earlier (but I see in titanpad that people objected). Another option would be to announce the info at 10:00, in the

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15: CFP - Opening of registrations - Call for sprints

2015-02-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 14 Feb 2015, at 19:21, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Summit is basically ready to open registrations (cate: please correct me if I'm wrong) and what we need now is: I confirm: IMO we are ready. 1) The text for the call for papers / CFP+open reg

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15: CFP - Opening of registrations - Call for sprints

2015-02-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 15 Feb 2015, at 09:00, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach René Mayorga rmayo...@debian.org.sv [2015-02-15 01:07 +0100]: I prefer the idea of two separate mails, but I will prefer to send the CfP after the mail calling for registration. That seems illogical to me,

[Debconf-team] DebCamp and DebConf dates

2015-02-08 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello team, Could we setup the dates of DebCamp and DebConf, including sponsored days, and talks days? I prepared a proposal: Sat 8 Aug: Early arrivals (Setup, DebCamp) starting 17:00 Sun 9 Aug: DebCamp Day 1 Mon 10 Aug: DebCamp Day 2 Tue 11 Aug: DebCamp Day 3 Wed 12 Aug: DabCamp Day 4 Thu

Re: [Debconf-team] DebCamp and DebConf dates

2015-02-08 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 08 Feb 2015, at 15:42, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez a...@ekaia.org [2015-02-08 14:35 +0100]: I have not idea how much setup you have to do but given that the local team is not in Heildeberg it doesn't sounds like a bad idea if you have 1-2 days

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07 Feb 2015, at 05:36, Tassia Camoes Araujo tas...@acaia.ca wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 01:13:00PM -0500, micah anderson wrote: So, yes, I think the framing problem is important here, but the real problem is that the negotiations with food providers should be approached from a

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