Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the Call for Proposals

2015-03-12 Thread Allison Randal
On 03/04/2015 01:43 PM, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Second, do you see any way to move the deadline earlier, e.g. end of April? Not only would this help with press releases and attract attention. It also helps people to know a vague

Re: [Debconf-team] CoC and suitable for people aged 12 or above

2015-03-12 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:05 PM, gregor herrmann gregor+deb...@comodo.priv.at wrote: This sounds much like what was proposed in the discussion about the DebConf CoC back in September on -discuss (although referring to other lines in the Be inclusive section). IIRC this mail from Marga was very

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the Call for Proposals

2015-03-12 Thread Tassia Camoes Araujo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:47:32PM +0100, David Bremner wrote: A first round of talks accepted by April 15th would be help the bursaries process. It's not a blocker if we don't have that data, but it would be nice. Just to be clear, we will definitely coordinate our evaluation process

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 09:49 +0100]: I think that we should clarify what 'budget approval' means, maybe. From my perspective, it means: - Chairs and DPL have looked at it, and are fine with the general shape of it - We agree on a plan about how to address

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/03/15 at 20:49 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-11 18:53 +0100]: Do you have a maximum amount of Debian funds you can allocate to bursaries to do their work when they have sighted the applications in April? Or a target? No,

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/15 at 10:18 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 09:49 +0100]: I think that we should clarify what 'budget approval' means, maybe. From my perspective, it means: - Chairs and DPL have looked at it, and are fine with the general

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/15 at 12:26 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 11:32 +0100]: OK, then, provided the chairs agree as well (as they know more about the details than myself), I think I'm fine with all the expenses listed in the worst case scenario

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread David Bremner
Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org writes: I would prefer to hear from bursaries before we decide to direct funds to some of the items in the base case scenario. Just to be clear, do you mean you want to wait until after the bursaries ranking process is complete before making that decision? I

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/15 at 13:28 +0100, David Bremner wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org writes: I would prefer to hear from bursaries before we decide to direct funds to some of the items in the base case scenario. Just to be clear, do you mean you want to wait until after the bursaries

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 12.03.2015 12:26, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 11:32 +0100]: OK, then, provided the chairs agree as well (as they know more about the details than myself), I think I'm fine with all the expenses listed in the worst case scenario in the

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Martin, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:16 PM, martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org wrote: also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-11 11:18 +0100]: My other question is about the travel sponsorship amount. 30k€ seems quite low to me. How does it compare to past years? DC14 : 45k

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
My main interest is to ensure that DC15 is the most successful for the Debian project. For that, one of the main conditions is that enough contributors can attend the event. That's why the sponsorship budget is so important to me: to put it bluntly, I don't care if DC15 will be very enjoyable for

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Martin, I only have a few comments on the budget: * Dinner/Lunch participation: The numbers, at least for dinner should be more in the 80-90% range as some might decide not to eat or go into the city to eat. For CW, I'd also assume less than 90% * Conference dinner transport: I'd cancel this

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/15 at 19:33 +, Philip Hands wrote: martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org writes: ... Before we commit to expenses that I see as optional from the point of view of the success for the Debian project metric, I would like to make sure that the sponsorship budget is covered. ...

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Philip Hands
martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org writes: ... Before we commit to expenses that I see as optional from the point of view of the success for the Debian project metric, I would like to make sure that the sponsorship budget is covered. ... Given the conservative nature of my budget, after the

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] video meeting for dc15, video sprint

2015-03-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:42:36AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: So I suggest taking the four people slot for tomorrow, at 18:00 UTC, #debconf-video, OFTC. So, that didn't go very well. -team: Richard told me earlier this week[1] that there was going to be a debconf budget meeting, and asked

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
Thanks for the comments, here are quick answers: also sprach Philipp Hug deb...@hug.cx [2015-03-12 17:47 +0100]: * Dinner/Lunch participation: The numbers, at least for dinner should be more in the 80-90% range as some might decide not to eat or go into the city to eat. For CW, I'd also

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 16:14 +0100]: My main interest is to ensure that DC15 is the most successful for the Debian project. Noted, and agreed. But this is not the main interest of everyone involved, and it's also not my only interest. Especially the people

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread David Bremner
Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org writes: I also have a question about the number of people sponsored for food+accomodation. In the 35% scenario, how does it compare to previous years? (both in terms of absolute number of attendees, and in terms of cost for self-paying attendees) Here is what

[Debconf-team] Please review and approve budget

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
Dear chairs, following tonight's meeting, I've committed the latest budget proposal. I would *really* appreciate if you could review and approve this within the next 10 days and recommend to Lucas to do the same. We need to make some decisions that require an approved budget *this* month. The

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] video meeting for dc15, video sprint

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be [2015-03-12 20:03 +0100]: If -team absolutely needs feedback from -video before being able to finalize the budget, you'll have to wait. Otherwise, I understand that a preliminary number of €10K has been suggested, which *seems* sortof okay to most of

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 12:35 +0100]: I would prefer to hear from bursaries before we decide to direct funds to some of the items in the base case scenario. Around in circles we go. :( -- .''`. martin f. krafft madd...@debconf.org @martinkrafft : :' :

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-12 11:32 +0100]: OK, then, provided the chairs agree as well (as they know more about the details than myself), I think I'm fine with all the expenses listed in the worst case scenario in the expense tab (except for the video team budget

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 08:03:24AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [2015-03-12 00:25 +0100]: Note also for the record that there was no explicit Debian newbies earmark in 2014. Previous attendance at DebConf was one of various factors weighed by

[Debconf-team] Joining Debconf15 Website Team

2015-03-12 Thread Jack Henschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear Debconf15-Team, I was recently searching for infomration about DebConf15, because it is in Germany this year and I'm also from Germany, therefore I'd really like to attend it. While I was doing this, I stumbled across the Contribute-page and

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [2015-03-12 00:25 +0100]: DC14 : 45k USD incl. newbies initiative, 36k USD from Debian (still don't have the numbers on how this was used) What numbers are you looking for that are not available through the ledger or information sent to