[Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The talks team had a meeting on #debconf-team this evening. Thanks to everyone who showed up. meetbot summary (and links to logs) are here: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2010/debconf-team.2010-05-26-23.07.html I wanted to raise two distinct issues with the broader debconf team from

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

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
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 t-shirts available for sale without sponsor logos. I share that wish. That is of course a valid question and I would like to share my feelings about

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Is anyone interested in acting as Scheduler? Does anyone with experience from scheduling past debconfs have advice to offer? do not schedule anything without giving at least 24h warning in advance. never. (and to repeat: I'm

[Debconf-team] important bug in penta (data loss)

2010-05-27 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, If you edit an attendee from the admin interface and this person has reconfirmed attendance already, this selection is undone (it is set as if the attendee has not reconfirmed). I do not know if this has something to do with this option not appearing when editing an attendee from the admin

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:01:20AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: There was quite a bit of discussion about having a select few events scheduled with no other concurrent events. We are calling these Plenaries for the moment. If we decide we want to have them, we might run into a bit of

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:38:20AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Is anyone interested in acting as Scheduler? Does anyone with experience from scheduling past debconfs have advice to offer? do not schedule anything without giving at

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 08:47 AM, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:01:20AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: There was quite a bit of discussion about having a select few events scheduled with no other concurrent events. What are the criteria for these select few? I would assume the

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: What do you think the criteria should be? Or would you prefer no plenaries at all? I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet sure what the point of them is. ___

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 11:01 AM, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: What do you think the criteria should be? Or would you prefer no plenaries at all? I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet sure what the point of them is. One

Re: [Debconf-team] penta ranking calculation metrics

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/22/2010 06:41 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm concerned that the rating metric is wrong in penta when reviewers leave one of the three categories in a don't know state. [...] Any thoughts on this? Am i misunderstanding something? OK, i've looked into this further. edrz pointed me

Re: [Debconf-team] number of talks to be accepted?

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:36:49PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: 1. It was also noted that we can always add more rooms and slots later. The smaller room (414, i think) on the same room as Davis auditorium

Re: [Debconf-team] penta ranking calculation metrics

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
(for tracking purposes, forwarded to pentab...@debconf.org, which goes to the RT instance) On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:40:20PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 05/22/2010 06:41 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm concerned that the rating metric is wrong in penta when reviewers leave one

Re: [Debconf-team] penta ranking calculation metrics

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: (for tracking purposes, forwarded to pentab...@debconf.org, which goes to the RT instance) Unnecessarily, in this case I now see ... since it is cleared up. Sorry for not reading before forwarding. -edrz

Re: [Debconf-team] penta patch to increase abstract field

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
forwared to RT On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:34:49PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: attached. -edrz From 7747fad21e5c5768f7c51ae9d07f133bea00af28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki e...@zhevny.com Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:31:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Increase size of

Re: [Debconf-team] important bug in penta (data loss)

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
forwarded to pentab...@debconf.org for RT On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:19:31PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: Hi, If you edit an attendee from the admin interface and this person has reconfirmed attendance already, this selection is undone (it is set as if the attendee has not reconfirmed). I

[Debconf-team] dc10 page headers need updating

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The headers on the dc10 schedule pages need updating; they still show dc9 headers afaict: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc10 I have no idea who can fix this, but hopefully a ticket will help keep it on the radar. --dkg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Debconf-team] dc10 page headers need updating

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:19:58PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: The headers on the dc10 schedule pages need updating; they still show dc9 headers afaict: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc10 I have no idea who can fix this, but hopefully a ticket will help keep it on the