Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation analysis of Le Camp

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:49:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I do know that at each DebConf where the standard accomodation was 4-per-room, I don't know from where you have this standard: DebConf3 (Oslo): Standard was a Gym with mattresses on the floor DebConf5 (Helsinki): I do not know

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#694394: Please create debconf-team, debconf-discuss mailing lists

2012-11-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Am 26.11.2012 01:34, schrieb Steve Langasek: The DebConf team has run separate infrastructure for mailing lists for a number of years. This is pointlessly redundant. Who are you to decide where others spend their time doing things? The lists.debconf.org mailserver has now crashed, and been

Re: [Debconf-team] Signing the contract with LeCamp

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:55:45PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote: If someone disagrees with this course of action, they should say it now. I do. I feel the meeting was forced and the concensus was not a real concensus. Some people were in the position: it is le camp or nothing and some people

[Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi everybody, I found a site with photos that together with the plans of le camp available at their website, allow to get a much better idea of what is being offered in terms of accommodation at Le camp. Le camp is the proposed venue for holding DebConf 13. The venue contains several building,

Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation analysis of Le Camp

2012-11-26 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-11-26 08:03, Andreas Tille wrote: So we failed three times in the standards you are claiming. In other words: In Europe we only had two times the standard you are mentioning (DebConf 9+11) and so I doubt that we do have something like a standard for European DebConfs at all. If I

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Ana, Thanks for this (more) informed mail. Unfortunately, it has some imprecisions that (unwillingly, I'm sure), spread FUD. Le lundi, 26 novembre 2012 12.22:13, Ana Guerrero a écrit : The venue contains several building, let's see one of them. You chose building 5. As you mention further

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ana, many thanks for your nice research. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: ... http://www.lecamp.ch/visite.php?lang=# ... To my understanding, the accommodation on the remaining buildings is in a similar state. With some different arrangement for the beds

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:30:31PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Ana, many thanks for your nice research. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: ... http://www.lecamp.ch/visite.php?lang=# ... To my understanding, the accommodation on the remaining buildings

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:01:57PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: We also can't force people with cars to drivers other. Some people might want just have the car parked the whole week. I do not think that forcing is the proper word. I simply trust in the ability of DebConf attendees to organise

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:14:54PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Ana, Thanks for this (more) informed mail. Unfortunately, it has some imprecisions that (unwillingly, I'm sure), spread FUD. If you provide more information instead of handwaving concerns, I'm sure you can contrarrest

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: If you see debconf as some holidays, certainly. For debconf you need talk rooms, hacklabs, internet, etc that are impossible to evaluate seeing those photos. With the exception of internet which was not visible on the plan

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi again Ana, Le lundi, 26 novembre 2012 14.01:57, Ana Guerrero a écrit : I expect those having cars possibily not wanting to spend all the day driving others to the town to buy whatever. People might have needs very important to them that drivers might feel irrelevant. We also can't force

Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation analysis of Le Camp

2012-11-26 Thread Herman Robak
På Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:03:48 +0100, skrev Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:49:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I do know that at each DebConf where the standard accomodation was 4-per-room, I don't know from where you have this standard: DebConf3 (Oslo):

Re: [Debconf-team] regarding dc13 location...

2012-11-26 Thread Thomas Koch
Richard Darst: So, I think the rambly point of this email is to encourage people to voice their actual feelings, ... Since you're asking. I'm also a bit concerned and would have liked for things to work out in other ways. However at this point in time I'm in favour of going with le Camp

[Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf chairs. I regret that it has come to this, but since I still do have a lot of concerns, I'm following this path. My main concerns were expressed in a

Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation analysis of Le Camp

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:03:48AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:49:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I do know that at each DebConf where the standard accomodation was 4-per-room, I don't know from where you have this standard: To clarify, I was speaking about

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Didier, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org writes: ... If to all the above if you add details like the nearest supermarket being 3.7km away or that the nearest hotel is mostly unaffordable (320CHF the night for a double room) That's a silly example as that's a castle, with a single

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Didier, Didier Raboud o...@debian.org writes: ... That said, I must say I'm really disappointed that the local team members have to face such untrust. It's really hard to acknowledge and accept that we did these investigation one year ago [0], that we are making them better over time,

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 07:44:22PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Jonathan, tl;dr: not all LeCamp beds are like those shown by Ana. [...] I understand (and can share part of) your concerns. Yet, as mentionned (on - team probably, sorry for that), Buildings 4 and 5 provide the most

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf chairs. As I apparently miss some context, what does it has been requested mean

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: That said, I must say I'm really disappointed that the local team members have to face such untrust. It's really hard to acknowledge and accept that we did these investigation one year ago [0], that we are making them better over

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 26/11/12 20:22, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf chairs. As I apparently

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:18:52PM +, Daniel Pocock wrote: Actually, there may be other options open to the DPL in this scenario Thanks for taking the time of explaining to me how to do my job :-) Although the team made a decision, a contract can not be signed if the budget is not

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Philip, that'll be my last mail on both -team and -discuss until the contract signature as I'm getting really exhausted of all this. Nothing against you though (more against me…). Le lundi, 26 novembre 2012 20.38:28, Philip Hands a écrit : Could that be because some of the the details that

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:45:18PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Although the team made a decision, a contract can not be signed if the budget is not endorsed by the DPL. So the DPL could defer ratification of the budget on any of these grounds: - to ask the debconf-team to convene

[Debconf-team] LeCamp - Approval of budget and signing the contract

2012-11-26 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi everyone, As Gaudenz and I are scheduled to negotiate and sign a one-week contract with LeCamp this Wednesday, we're formally asking the DebConf chairs for approval of this budget and for permission to sign the contract. I updated the budget.ods in SVN and also attached a PDF version to this

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
[Side note...] On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:22:37PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Beside observing the above, I can't (at least at a formal level) do much more to help. Constitution §5.1.1 is fairly clear on the fact that once something is delegated, the DPL could not overrule the delegates

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Whether the money is being put to good use for Debian is precisely the question that's being raised, AIUI. […] We need decisive and timely leadership here, and that has DPL written all over it. Sorry, Zack, but the buck stops

Re: [Debconf-team] LeCamp - Approval of budget and signing the contract

2012-11-26 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-11-26 22:47, Philipp Hug wrote: budget and give permission to the DebConf13 association to organize DebConf13 at LeCamp within the budget attached. Before I look at the proposed budget, I want to comment on this point. As discussed previously, we should be working under an agreement

Re: [Debconf-team] LeCamp - Approval of budget and signing the contract

2012-11-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:47:15PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote: As Gaudenz and I are scheduled to negotiate and sign a one-week contract with LeCamp this Wednesday, we're formally asking the DebConf chairs for approval of this budget and for permission to sign the contract. 1) Where is the

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:12:13AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Whether the money is being put to good use for Debian is precisely the question that's being raised, AIUI. […] We need decisive and timely leadership here,

Re: [Debconf-team] LeCamp - Approval of budget and signing the contract

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Philipp, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:47:15PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote: Hi everyone, As Gaudenz and I are scheduled to negotiate and sign a one-week contract with LeCamp this Wednesday, we're formally asking the DebConf chairs for approval of this budget and for permission to sign the

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 26/11/12 21:45, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:18:52PM +, Daniel Pocock wrote: Actually, there may be other options open to the DPL in this scenario Thanks for taking the time of explaining to me how to do my job :-) Suggesting options for discussion

Re: [Debconf-team] LeCamp - Approval of budget and signing the contract

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, I've been helping with this, so I should be able to answer these questions. I helped hug make the original email sent here, too, so I can be blamed for anything in the budget or initial email, too. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:33:31PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm having trouble

Re: [Debconf-team] LeCamp - Approval of budget and signing the contract

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:32:19AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:47:15PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote: As Gaudenz and I are scheduled to negotiate and sign a one-week contract with LeCamp this Wednesday, we're formally asking the DebConf chairs for approval of this