Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 sponsoring brochure, sponsorship levels

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 8. August 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: Also, according to a phone call (referred to from the 20110831 Meeting minutes[0]) I had held with Lausanne Tourisme, if we had gone to Lausanne, the city would have given between 25k and 40k given a good dossier. Can we potentially

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 sponsoring brochure, sponsorship levels

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 8. August 2012, Luca Capello wrote: * SUPPORTER - up to CHF 2'000 [DC10 2'000, DC11 1'200, DC12 NONE] * BRONZE - starting from CHF 2'000 [DC10 2'000, DC11 2'400, DC12 2'000] * SILVER - starting from CHF 5'000 [DC10 10'000, DC11 6'000, DC12 5'000] * GOLD - starting from CHF

Re: [Debconf-team] Cancellation policy

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (also catching up on old mails...) On Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012, Henning Sprang wrote: DebConf is - from my feeling and understanding of it - *not* a conference in the sense of a professional conference of any product developed and/or supported or driven by a company. It is a meeting for

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I forgot to mention this in my last message. I was highlighted while my network was acting up on me. I have looked *very little* at this point, but it's fundamental for us to work on it soon. Yes, indeed. If replacing penta is going

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 14. August 2012, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I have not yet done a even test install of it (I'm creating a VM for it right now). I expect to have it ready soon, and I'll start looking at what we have, what we need. I expect not to be the only one doing this. Holger has repeatedly said

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eric, On Dienstag, 14. August 2012, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: In any case, I haven't seen anything since dc12 from anyone else here about trying out any of the other options. dc12 ended a month ago, today. So I'm not surprised no new work has been started yet. So, fwiw I'm inclined

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 Venue constraints

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Darst
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:55:47PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Hi, It would take too long to find the right message(s) to reply to, so I'll put this here. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 05:18:47PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: (1) The venue only has 325 beds. Several people fear that this

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Am 14.08.2012 09:25, schrieb Eric Dantan Rzewnicki: - Resources? I can have this on a VM of my personal machine, but I'd very much rather if we have a instance where more people can log in and hack on it. A DebConf machine? A Debian machine? Would be good. But *please* not a painfully

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 Venue constraints

2012-08-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thanks to Richard for the detailed breakdown of attendee statistics. Richard Darst r...@zgib.net writes: I remember for DC10, at first some localteam people wanted to reserve 400 rooms because it would be huge and DC7 had 400 people. But I looked at the detailed breakdown and it

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org writes: - Resources? I can have this on a VM of my personal machine, but I'd very much rather if we have a instance where more people can log in and hack on it. A DebConf machine? A Debian machine? Would be good. But *please* not a painfully underpowered

Re: [Debconf-team] Cancellation policy

2012-08-14 Thread Daniel Pocock
While writing this paragraph, I thought of a good number of possible situations where refunding an attendance payment would be OK, and others where it would not. And of course, some that would be border-line. Until we get a flow of cancellations big enough to worry (and I trust we won't!),

Re: [Debconf-team] Cancellation policy

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 14. August 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: But on the issue of whether we have no policy: I just think that is a bad idea. It is better to tell people the worst case scenario before they pay any money, then if something goes wrong, they will not feel angry. we don't have a cancelation

Re: [Debconf-team] Cancellation policy

2012-08-14 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 14.08.2012 13:09, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 14. August 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: But on the issue of whether we have no policy: I just think that is a bad idea. It is better to tell people the worst case scenario before they pay any money, then if something goes wrong, they will

Re: [Debconf-team] Cancellation policy

2012-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 14. August 2012, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Not really. Until we start giving something to the customers, we are obliged to return money to the customer, if he ask so. You should also remember that in DebConf we are the strong part, so any doubts on contracts are in favor to

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 Venue constraints

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:10:31PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi Thanks to Richard for the detailed breakdown of attendee statistics. Richard Darst r...@zgib.net writes: I remember for DC10, at first some localteam people wanted to reserve 400 rooms because it would be huge

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:39:03AM +0200]: So, fwiw I'm inclined to say he who will lead the work shall choose the tools. no! if we don't have a video workflow like penta provides us now, we either wont be able to release videos as fast as we did at dc12 or we will

Re: [Debconf-team] DC13 sponsoring brochure, sponsorship levels

2012-08-14 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:15:37 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 8. August 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: Also, according to a phone call (referred to from the 20110831 Meeting minutes[0]) I had held with Lausanne Tourisme, if we had gone to Lausanne, the city would have given

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] Updates from Le Camp meeting

2012-08-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Camp director Mr. Pianaro. I can personally say that I am satisfied for how the meting went and I think this feeling is shared by the other participants. You can find the most important point of the meeting on the wiki http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Meetings/minutes-20120814 Thanks

Re: [Debconf-team] And regarding the Penta replacement

2012-08-14 Thread Mario Manno
Hi all, I'm maintaining the katastrophie frab fork. We used that one for the SIGINT12 conference and I'm currently working towards a CCC-wide frab installation. I've forwarded your mail to one of the frab developers. - As you know, I have no high hopes of remaining too close to the