Re: [Debconf-discuss] Do not photograph checkbox in registration

2014-09-14 Thread micah anderson
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Richard Hartmann writes (Re: [Debconf-discuss] Do not photograph checkbox in registration): That is a social problem, so technical solutions won't work anyway. This is the second time in this thread that this aphorism has turned up. It's

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Do not photograph checkbox in registration

2014-09-14 Thread micah anderson
Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com writes: On 12 September 2014 18:52, John Sullivan jo...@debian.org wrote: Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org writes: But I agree that this view might be skewed be that fact that I personally think that the talks video are very valueable and don't mind

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Do not photograph checkbox in registration

2014-09-14 Thread micah anderson
Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com writes: We are talking about a handful of people against several hundred on-site and several hundred more off-site. I am glad to set up some extra rules to accommodate their special wishes. Removing useful things from hundreds of other people is not ok. I

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Do not photograph checkbox in registration

2014-09-09 Thread micah anderson
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: I would like to ask to remove the Do not photograph me checkbox in Debconf registration form as we do not really have a technology to implement that. As someone who checked that option (mainly in

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Gobby vs. Etherpad?

2011-08-05 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:03:17 +0200, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:08:47AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Csillag Tamas] Because as far as I see titanpad is a propriatory sw that runs on someones server. At the same time gobby is installed on debian

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Please apply common sense!

2011-07-25 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:54:25 +0200, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: I was in the hack lab 20 minutes ago and the wireless worked with 25% packet loss there, too, so it was hardly an improvement. Oh and the LAN switches in

Re: [Debconf-discuss] lower hacklab

2011-07-21 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:29:44 +0200, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: I would like to remind everyone that the upper floor is not existent for the s/not/now purposes of this conference. So please use the lower hacklab if possible. When you enter the building, just go to your left.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] SIM cards for DebConf11 attendees

2011-07-19 Thread micah anderson
It seems like my phone is asking for a PIN password when I boot up with this SIM. Entering either the PIN or the PUK on the back of the card does not work. Perhaps this is an indication that the phone is not unlocked? If so, is there no possibility to unlock this? micah pgpMDsQghdpC8.pgp

[Debconf-discuss] CCC camp after debconf

2011-07-11 Thread Micah Anderson
Is anyone planning on sticking around to go to the CCC camp afterwards? I'm hoping to go, if I can pull together the cash, and I'm curious if others are going to stick around that long? micah -- pgprAw4nwbeVu.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Group travel discount wiki page - add yourself!

2011-05-23 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 20 May 2011 18:11:59 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org wrote: I've greatly expanded the template that Tiago provided me (thanks!) and made a wiki page for the group discount effort, both for DebConf11 and later years. For now it's here: Thanks for doing that! If you want to be

Re: [Debconf-discuss] RCBC - results and prizes (was: RCBC - Release Critical Bug squashing {Contest, of the Conf})

2010-08-30 Thread micah anderson
Today I was able to send off some of the prizes. Some people have not sent me their address still. A couple things to set your expectations: 1. The books were randomly selected. I'm sorry if the subject matter is not interesting to you! 2. You are also getting a t-shirt, but the size was also

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Subway card!

2010-08-09 Thread micah anderson
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:52:26 -0400, Gabriella Coleman bie...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have money on your subway card?? Don't know what to do it? Feel free to send it to me and I will distribute to the local team! It might seem absurd to send these back to us, but having $1 (or even less) on 300

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Lightning Talks

2010-08-06 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:12:15 -0400, John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: On 08/06/2010 01:07 AM, micah wrote: Lightning talks will be happening on 8/7, but only if you sign up to do them! There are several slots left to give your talk, send me an email if you wish to be one of those,

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Virtualization?

2010-08-02 Thread micah anderson
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:08:41 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org writes: One topic of interest to me is virtualization. We've been using Xen for awhile, and have had some issues with its state in squeeze, and are looking at KVM. There was a big

Re: [Debconf-discuss] IPv6-rDNS broken (IN NS invalid)

2010-07-29 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:52:41 +0200, Adrian Knoth a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de wrote: This mail probably needs to be forwarded to the local DNS admin. It's about IPv6 DNS in the Hacklab or DC10 in general, so if you're not concerned, there's no need to read on. ;) I have sent this on to the

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Decent coffee nearby?

2010-07-29 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:14:31 -0700, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: May I suggest capturing this wealth of information on the debconf.org wiki? That will be a bit friendlier than directing people to the list archives. :) You may, but you may also realize that when you make such

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Decent coffee nearby?

2010-07-29 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:16:21 -0400, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, On Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: You may, but you may also realize that when you make such suggestions you become the volunteer, which I think may have just happened. Nope. You seem

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Columbia Debian mirror

2010-07-28 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:58:26 -0400, micah mi...@riseup.net wrote: The Academic Technologies Group[0] at Columbia University has been supporting free software by providing mirrors for various projects for some time. In our preparations for Debconf, we contacted the Columbia mirror admins

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Columbia Debian mirror

2010-07-28 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:15:39 +0100, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Micah, On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:58:26AM -0400, micah wrote: Please consider using mirror.cc.columbia.edu for the duration of Debconf! IIRC while Debconf at Extremadura all debian.org DNS were hijacked

Re: [Debconf-discuss] what to bring when housed on campus?

2010-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:34:21 +0200, Martin Bagge / brother brot...@bsnet.se wrote: Like under accomodation or something. http://debconf10.debconf.org/accommodation.xhtml fifth paragraph: Bed sheets, pillow, blanket and towel will be provided. Pillow case, soap and shampoo will not be

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Ethernet Cable length [was: Re: More questions regarding what to bring for DebConf10 (and other stuff)]

2010-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:25:41 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: On 07/22/2010 01:08 PM, David Moreno wrote: 2010/7/22 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br 2 - The What to bring section of the Welcome page [3] says that one should bring a long ethernet cable. How long

Re: [Debconf-discuss] More questions regarding what to bring for DebConf10 (and other stuff)

2010-07-22 Thread micah anderson
That's up to you, I suppose.. I definitely wouldn't be walking around NYC at night.. It's just not a good idea.. If you ever do find yourself going on the subway, make sure you stay with other people.. If they get off the subway, move to a different car.. You don't ever want to be alone,

Re: [Debconf-discuss] OpenPGP primary key expirations: useful? [was: Re: Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10]

2010-07-21 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:29:01 +0800, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: They are also useful to discover and educate folks who do not regularly refresh keys from the keyserver network. On more than one occasion I've had folks tell me my key was expired when I'd updated the expiry and pushed it to

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10

2010-07-20 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:22:04 -0400, Chris Knadle chris-deb...@coredump.us wrote: And concerning automated key refreshing, the suggestion from the OpenPGP Best Practices of using the following cronjob has a snag: 0 1 * * * /usr/bin/gpg --refresh-keys /dev/null 21 ... which is that

Re: [Debconf-discuss] barcade

2010-07-20 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:12:59 -0400, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, just wanted to share a nice bar with you, which we found by chance yesterday, Barcade in Williamsburg. The cool thing about it is that it features *lots* of original arcade machines from the eighties

Re: [Debconf-discuss] possible smart card group buy?

2010-07-09 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:45:19 -0300, David Bremner brem...@unb.ca wrote: Is there any interest in a gpg smartcard group buy? http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Debconf10/Unofficial/SmartCardBuy I think it doesn't make too much sense for me to order things to Canada from Germany, and then

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Thanking our sponsors

2010-05-25 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:57:29 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki e...@zhevny.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:37:55PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Pablo Duboue pablo.dub...@gmail.com wrote: A long while somebody in #debconf-team asked if we can have plain

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Travelling from Montréal to N Y f or DebCamp10, July 26th

2010-04-14 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:33:58 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org wrote: The various bus options will be significantly cheaper but also take longer due to traffic, and much more spartan / less comfortable. MegaBus and BoltBus both have free wifi, and BoltBus also has power outlets. Fung Wah

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Travelling from Montréal to N Y f or DebCamp10, July?26th

2010-04-14 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:08:26 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:33:58AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: The various bus options will be significantly cheaper but also take longer due to traffic, and much more spartan / less comfortable. MegaBus and

[Debconf-discuss] Pictures collection

2009-08-28 Thread Micah Anderson
I find it very nice that people have been putting their picture galleries up on the wiki[0]. However, I find navigating each individual galleries a pain and I end up not doing it, although I want to. Because I did not take very many pictures at Debconf, I would like to download a copy of these

[Debconf-discuss] Pictures!

2009-08-24 Thread Micah Anderson
I find it very nice that people have been putting their picture galleries up on the wiki[0]. However, I find navigating each individual galleries a pain and I end up not doing it, although I want to. Because I did not take very many pictures at Debconf, I would like to download a copy of these

[Debconf-discuss] Read this before you send signatures with caff!

2009-08-06 Thread Micah Anderson
Hi all! Many people are signing keys with their new stronger keys. This is great. However, please be aware of an issue with caff before you send off your signatures, or you may have to re-do it! If you are not careful you will created your signatures using the SHA-1 hash, while your key should

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Read this before you send signatures with caff! *Much easier method!*

2009-08-04 Thread Micah Anderson
What follows is a much easier method for those of you who sent off SHA-1 signatures, and want to 'fire and forget' an update with the stronger SHA-2 hash signatures: 1. Do this first: To be sure you send the right SHA-2 capable hash signatures, or to fix the fact that you sent SHA-1

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Read this before you send signatures with caff! *Much easier method!*

2009-08-04 Thread Micah Anderson
* Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org [2009-08-04 14:24-0400]: Quoting Micah Anderson (mi...@debian.org): 3. Do the following for loop: $ for keyid in `ls | cut -d. -f1 | sort | uniq` do GNUPGHOME=~/.caff/gnupghome gpg --export-options export-minimal --export $keyid /tmp

[Debconf-discuss] Read this before you send signatures with caff!

2009-08-03 Thread Micah Anderson
Hi all! Many people are signing keys with their new stronger keys. This is great. However, please be aware of an issue with caff before you send off your signatures, or you may have to re-do it! If you are not careful you will created your signatures using the SHA-1 hash, while your key should

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-25 Thread Micah Anderson
* martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org [2009-06-25 04:21-0400]: The government IDs are relevant because when we're collaborating on an OS where there's minimal code review of the work done by maintainers and a well-chosen malicious package could cause millions or billions of dollars in

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-11 Thread Micah Anderson
* Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org [2009-06-11 03:19-0400]: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:56:53AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Would someone volunteer to do such job? I'll organize it. Great, thanks Aníbal! As, this year, meny people renewed their key because of recently

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-11 Thread Micah Anderson
* Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org [2009-06-11 13:04-0400]: Therefore, after the quite big hype where everybody (incl. me) regenerated a key Although I agree that the attack is theoretical, I would not agree that encouraging people to transition is 'hype', but rather a proactive approach

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf9 reconfirmation period started ; ends 7 June

2009-05-25 Thread Micah Anderson
* Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org [2009-05-25 16:02-0400]: Raphael Geissert dijo [Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:59:03AM -0500]: If you are waiting to know if you'll be granted travel sponsorship or not, then please wait until you know for sure that you are coming before reconfirming. If the

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Debian Secrets

2008-08-12 Thread Micah Anderson
* Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-12 14:31-0400]: - Maybe rc-alert and wnpp-alert ? - HowTo Contributing to the Debian Project News ;) - http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/xx (webfrontend for package translations) - Searching packages with apt-file - using

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf9

2007-10-23 Thread Micah Anderson
* Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071023 10:06]: On 11179 March 1977, Roland Mas wrote: Now - is there anyone out there who wants to present us another possible location? Aw, come on Debian-JP, you know you want it! (And the Olympic Center in Tokyo/Yoyogi would be quite the place to

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Cheese Wine party

2007-06-18 Thread Micah Anderson
I don't wish to make any assumptions about the french cabal organizing the wine and cheese BOF, but if any of them show up in balaclavas, you'll know why: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6759953.stm micah Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The Cheese

[Debconf-discuss] Re: Will you take part in the daytrip?

2006-05-12 Thread Micah Anderson
On 2006-05-06, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are planning to continue the Debconf tradition, and have a great daytrip on Wednesday May 17 to Xochicalco and Cuernavaca [1]. However, we must plan on the amount of people that will go in order to get the correct amount of buses, guides