[Debconf-team] Interlaken / Balmer's room configuration

2012-11-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
Here are the exact room details I received from Balmer's. These are not for all the rooms - they have other rooms with less than 6 beds, but not included in the rate they have quoted Hostel 40pax in 10bedded dorms, 48 pax in 8 bedded dorms and 12pax in 6bedded dorms = Total 100 guests

Re: [Debconf-team] Website restyle

2012-11-02 Thread Allison Randal
On 11/01/2012 09:25 PM, Michael Banck wrote: I (and somebody I talked to about Debconf13 today) noticed that the schedule link is 404. Of course we don't have a schedule or CfP yet, but I think it would look better if there are no dead links but a coming soon page instead. Just posting

[Debconf-team] Correction of rumors and comments about anonymous financial support for LeCamp

2012-11-02 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi debconf-team, As you might have heard, there were some comments made on IRC about anonymous people providing monetary support for DebConf in LeCamp. It was even mistaken as Sponsor money in some discussions. Unfortunately this has been communicated before the details of such a deal have been

Re: [Debconf-team] Correction of rumors and comments about anonymous financial support for LeCamp

2012-11-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/11/12 16:09, Philipp Hug wrote: It's now clear that they only wanted to provide DebConf with liquidity to pay for the first 2 installments and to get their money back as soon as we get the money from our sponsors. This also has a financial risk for them and I want to thank them for

Re: [Debconf-team] bad bed comparison

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonathan, On Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012, Jonathan McDowell wrote: (Note I'm not really expecting this mail to change anything, but I was asked to send my feedback by someone who saw me casually complain on IRC. I'm older these days and taking time off work to go to a conference where I'll

Re: [Debconf-team] beds camping (Was: reports from Le Camp BSP, part 2: le venue le contract)

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lucas, On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Questions: - Does the 300 figure include campers? i.e., could it be 250 people in beds + 50 people in tents? Or do we need to reach 300 people in bed to allow for campers? basically, if we dont sleep in their beds/houses, but

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp BSP, part 5: pics

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012, Michael Banck wrote: https://gallery.debconf.org/v/debconf3/wolfgangklier/afp.jpg.html *g* ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 local organization

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Richard Darst r...@zgib.net writes: A while ago, I talked with some people about the DC13 local organization. There were some interesting things about it thanks for bringing this up now, Richard. I do think it's important we update

Re: [Debconf-team] A better budget analysis

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:25:02PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: IIRC but I'm fairly sure I do. (And I'm sooo fine with solving these details later.) If it has no impact on the budget, then sure, by all means let's discuss it later. Michael ___

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 local organization

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Philipp, thanks for your reply, just one comment: On Freitag, 2. November 2012, Philipp Hug wrote: Whatever was discussed and agreed during DC12 is not documented on http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/MoneyFlow - so let's do this now. Agreed, this needs to be documented. Can you do that

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 local organization

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 2. November 2012, Holger Levsen wrote: I understand Darst's concern that he wants to have this clarified now, before we sign anything. Then let's do that, I don't think this is difficult nor controversial at all. and to clarify this: I think all is clear, it just lacks

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

2012-11-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:40:12AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: tangential to your main point. However, I do think that budgeting a sponsored day trip while budgeting zero travel sponsorship will leave a bad taste in many people's mouths. To put it another way, I'm fine with waiting to see if

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

2012-11-02 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Andreas, I specifically think that in the case of Le Camp (or a similarly located holiday area) we just can do a daytrip without spending any money on it: Simply start walking together or jumping into the lake nearby should make a nice daytrip without any extra cost. So yes, please put

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

2012-11-02 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:16:08PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: And for this comparison, please redo the comparison based on the DC10 numbers instead. And thanks already! ;-) I'm going to assume people can do basic math, and not be insulted by being asked to do something where there is a much

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

2012-11-02 Thread Richard Darst
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:52:59PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I think 44 Professionals is a very very conservative expectation. I think we should base our expectations around the numbers we had for DebConfs of similar size (~300 attendees). I also disagree that we have DC10: 65

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 local organization + darst's financial system

2012-11-02 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:33:05PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote: I understand this as dc13.ch maintaining a budget, which is obviouly wrong, as I expect those doing this do this together in debconf-team svn^wgit. The detailed budget is maintained in the debconf-team svn and there's a public

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 local organization + darst's financial system

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 3. November 2012, Richard Darst wrote: I still consider it problematic that the official budget is not public I agree. Just for the record, here is my recommended layout of documents: debconf-data/budget.ods - Public. Expected costs and incomes.

Re: [Debconf-team] Contract updated

2012-11-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michele, On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012, Michele Cane wrote: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/dc13/accounting/contracts/Le_ Camp/Contrat%20Debconf13%20-%2030-10-2012.pdf?view=log looks ok to me - what did Le Camp reply? can someone add me to the repository please