Re: [Debconf-team] Names for events (was: Re: Open Day talks)

2009-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:12:02PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: The one improvement that greater than one person thought would be useful (including me) was to select some of the talks to be named Featured. This can be done very late, so we don't even have to make a big deal out of it. I think

Re: [Debconf-team] Names for events (was: Re: Open Day talks)

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:53:24PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I'm not completely happy with any of the proposals (including mine). Neither :-/ Seems to be hard to really find a clue to name levels. Possibly we should just do away with the levels for next year? IMHO a *solution* will not

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] SPEAKERS!!! check your talk(s)

2009-06-30 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/6/30 David Reyes Samblas Martinez da...@tuxbrain.com: Ok I see, mmm ... I believe is a little bit late to start so I guess if it's possible to start   earlier , I don't see any scheduled event on that room in the afternoon so starting let's say at 15:00 will be better for the Rafael, the

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trip--preferences

2009-06-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:42:51AM +0200, Anto Recio wrote: Choose your preferences for day Trip http://doodle.com/i643df52havyzqhe Is there an option to have both in case there is no real majority for one option - say one bus goes to the city and the other to the nature? IIt seems that

Re: [Debconf-team] Keynotes and group photo

2009-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:51:08AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Spain is over 30 degrees North - I live 19N, and twilight starts about 19:30. Well, Gunnar, I'm living at 51.8N and I confirm that *now* it is light until 22:00 *here* It will be darker in one month and it will be even darker at 30N

Re: [Debconf-team] Schedule proposal for Open Day

2009-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:47:56AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Scheduling at large must be done as soon as possible, or even earlier, I completely agree with you. Thanks to Ana we now have an acceptable state. Perhaps with minor corrections until end of week. I hope no late coming keynote

Re: [Debconf-team] Keynotes and group photo

2009-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:03:32PM +0200, Moray Allan wrote: Here are the relevant times for Madrid (a little further north) in July: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=141month=7year=2009obj=sunafl=-13day=1 Sadly they don't have a 'last time with enough light to sensibly

Re: [Debconf-team] Keynotes and group photo

2009-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:06:59AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Oh! But I meant _before_ the formal dinner - When we all leave the usual venue to go for the nice place. Then just forget what I wrote and realise that I sometimes / often might be able to understand simple things. ;-) Before formal

Re: [Debconf-team] Keynotes and group photo

2009-06-28 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/6/28 Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@debian.org: I like this idea. Usually people have no problem taking 5-10 minutes out of food time for the photo. And I will look for a place and measure light the previous days, like I did in the past years, so that the shooting time itself can be reduced to

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: I'd say that Open Day selection people should also be able to mark things as official, then. Since several DebConfs I wonder whether we should change this official / unofficial branding into spnsored / not sponsored to

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: spnsored / not sponsored to express what we *really* mean. It always confuses people what the distinction between official and unofficial means. +1 And I think we can+should still do this for DebConf9. If the technical

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:06:45AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Umh, I agree we should find a clearer wording - But I don't think it means sponsored/not sponsored. Sore. I do not insist on the sponsoring wording it was just a quick shot I've got in my mind. If anybody finds a more apropriate

Re: [Debconf-team] Schedule proposal for Open Day

2009-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/6/25 Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org: (Gunnar, Andreas, forward this to Tassia, I do not know her email) Tassia is out for personal reasons and will not even attend DebConf. Regular debconf attendees can use the morning after the welcome talk to greet each other and start hacking plans

Re: [Debconf-team] Schedule proposal for Open Day

2009-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/6/25 Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org: Yes, use penta and schedule as another DebConf day, just with 3 constrains: - It is only half of the day - You can not use the bug aditorium that will be for the OpenDay. - Some DebianDay attendees might go to those talks (and they are welcome to!) OK.

[Debconf-team] Limits for scheduling

2009-06-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I started GMail calendar to simulate a publicly available sheet of scratch paper at http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=sth55o7k738pkor89bjuc0g2b0%40group.calendar.google.comctz=Europe/Berlin Last year this worked out quite good for Vanessa and me - feel free to send me your

Re: [Debconf-team] Limits for scheduling

2009-06-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:44:40PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Great. could you please publish a dump for the google-impaired? Thanks a lot. There is nothing really to publish for now. We might do this or those have to wait until we move to Penta. It depends how much we need to relay on

Re: [Debconf-team] Limits for scheduling

2009-06-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 05:43:26PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: If you want to become *actively* involved into pre-Penta working on the schedule it might make sense to register a Joey DebConf Scheduler user at Google. Sounds fine to me. There is an acount joey.schedu...@googlemail.com

Re: [Debconf-team] Openday Status: Is help needed ?

2009-06-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:40:01AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Has the Open Day team made any progress with the talks? Do you all need extra help? Seems wee need help. Tassia, did not answer my ping and I'll be basically offline today and tomorrow. So Gunnar is alone until Sunday and time is

Re: [Debconf-team] Open DebConf Day Talks

2009-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:10:41PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Especially we need registered talks marked DebianDay. Currently there is not that much to select from ... But there are some talks we mentioned in the rating process that could be best suited for DebianDay. Yes - these are

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:18:04PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: DebianDay talks should definitively be considered official. Of course, I agree here and wonder whether we should rerate these candidates which might have been off the official DebConf programm. Kind regards Andreas. --

[Debconf-team] Penta admin request (Was: Open DebConf Day Talks)

2009-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:55:39AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Can someone make a list of the current talks (id's) which should be moved to the DebianDay category? Is there any way to select only DebianDay tagged events in Penta? Meta-Question: How can I set my rt.debconf.org password? Kind

Re: [Debconf-team] Global team meeting minutes, 25 June 2009

2009-05-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:41:25PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: 4. an3as works on preparing the openday-track talk schedule and getting talks signed up for it I just want to confirm this task - soory for not beeing able to attend the meeting. Technical question: Last year there was a

Re: [Debconf-team] who is the person in charge of the program of the debian day?

2009-05-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:01:34PM +0200, Anto Recio wrote: local sponsors talks Junta de Extremadura Cenatic Telefónica Maybe Lawrence Lessing and what do you think if we invite some Linex project people? Ahh, OK, for questions like this I'm most probably not the right person. I

Re: [Debconf-team] Problem with Penta

2009-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 06:57:20PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: I've made my inscription in Penta before the deadline for Independent participants, April 15th 2009, and I set Category Independent (Only for Early Registrants), and Debian Status Non-DD maintainer. Recently I

Re: [Debconf-team] Minutes from 2009 April 27 Meeting

2009-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:01:21PM -0300, Matias D'Ambrosio wrote: should I contact them and ask about current and planned biking conditions in Cáceres? Any specific questions besides rental locations and quantity? I think so. We had immediately three interested persons (Christian, Gunner

[Debconf-team] Events registerred by more than one person; Penta issues

2009-04-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I have registered a Debian Science round table event which I want to organise together with Michael Banck: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc9/event/384 I remember that there was an e-mail address to ask for such issues - but I failed in find this address again - probably it

Re: [Debconf-team] Events registerred by more than one person; Penta issues

2009-04-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: Done. It would have helped if you wrote please add Michael as a speaker to event 384, the way you wrote it I had to read it twice to figure what you want. Many thanks - I try to do better next time. Done, it would have helped if you wrote please set

Re: [Debconf-team] Planning for the schedule

2009-04-10 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/4/6 Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org: No sure we'll be able to have lunch so early as 13:00, ... so *early* as 13:00 - if I would not know that food in Spain is really great and really much I'm afraid to starve until this time. ;-) my guess is it will be something more like start at 13:30.

Re: [Debconf-team] Planning for the schedule

2009-04-03 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/4/2 Daniel Silverstone dsilv...@debian.org: Who was part of that team? Vanessa Gutierrez and me. (BTW, Vanessa's mails to the list seem to bounce - anybody able to check this out?) I was under the impression that noone had spoken up Well, this impression is just wrong - there was just

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration for DebConf9 opened

2009-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/3/31 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org: No, I don't think so. We raise the sponsorship money to improve Debian and the sponsors give it for that purpose. I dont see how that qualifies, sorry. (I assume free drinks at a sponsored party or maybe sponsored participation at the daytrip

Re: [Debconf-team] custom map using openstreetmap

2009-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/3/30 Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org: Although I am myself a mapper, arriving early (well, second DebCamp day), and I tend to map a bit wherever I travel to, I would _not_ consider this to be a proper main DebCamp activity (i.e. as it does not constitute value for Debian). Also, remember that

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/3/16 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org: Great! Are you subscribed to this list and following? I'm subscribed to the list as well, but do not regularly following (as you might notice because I obviosely answer with a 14 day delay).  My following will be closer the closer DebConf will be.

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 - call for Location proposals

2008-09-08 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/8/12 Patty Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right. Because there are NEVER foreign visitors to the US EVER. There is no tourism here. At all. We're all draconian and evil people. ... Well, I understand your frustration about several things said here. But I might add another reason which is

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Food schedule

2008-08-07 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/8/6 Martín Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We talked about that, but I'm not sure it'll work. Specially if the have talks overlapping lunch and breakfast. I do not think that we have such talks any more. Just adapted the schedule to eating times yesterday (sorry for not realising formerly).

[Debconf-team] Moving schedule by one hour (Was: Sauna, Pool, Gym and running)

2008-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:28, Andreas Tille wrote: Is starting at 9:00 with the keynote tasks fine or not? I think 10:00 is better. Maybe we should discuss and decide this here as part of a RL meeting? Yesterday we had a short / small real live

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Talk scheduling, volunteers needed

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/5/9, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I met her in Venezuela in November, 2008. She's very enthusiastic and has been a very good advocate of Software Libre in general and Debian in particular. Well I think no further advocation for Vanessa is needed after her self

Re: [Debconf-team] Assembling the proceedings: volunteer/s needed!

2008-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/5/5, Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) Ask speakers for their papers. Are there any templates. 2) Insist. :) ... also for this one. ;-) 3) Proof-read 4) Put the text inside the TeX template. Please, please, please, if there someone out there who can volunteer for

Re: [Debconf-team] food for late registrants Re: Regarding your DebConf8 blog post

2008-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/5/5, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think we consider giving at least sponsored food to people who register late. They work for us (well, for Debian), so IMO we can at least feed them :) I also would like to get food for free for people who have proven to work for Debian

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling, volunteers needed

2008-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/5/6, Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: we need one or more volunteers who are willing to do the scheduling of our talks. If multiple people volunteer: You need to be able to work together online (ie. IRC) on it, mail will most likely have too huge delays. I'd volunteer to meet in IRC

Re: [Debconf-team] Request for a debconf keynote

2008-05-04 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/4/30, Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That team, in this thread represented by Ana and me, already asked for an event submission so we can go and do our work. As long as we don't get that we can't decide. So please - don't reply to the list, fill in an event submission. :) I

[Debconf-team] Track DebianDay is missing in Penta

2008-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, how to apply for DebianDay track? Penta has only options for DebConf and DebCamp? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] Potential gotchas for the video coverage; lighting and camera positions.

2008-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
2008/3/7, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And for people using Beamer, maybe... A maximum indentation limit? A set of recommended styles? (Yes, I use beamer, and I have never checked such details :) ) Apropos LaTeX Beamer: When reading this thread I wondered whether we should recommend LaTeX

[Debconf-team] Plans for DebianDay

2008-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I wonder how the DebianDay this year will work. I understand the idea of having it in Buenos Aires separately from DebConf location with higher potential of attracting people. So I would really like to help attracting people but I wonder whether I'm really able to do because I'm unable to

Re: [Debconf-team] List of all submitted events

2008-02-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: [1] https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc8/all_events Is there any reason that you have to be logged in to see this information? I admit last year I was bored by the need to log in into penta to see several pages that yould be perfectly open for

Re: [Debconf-team] Some ideas for encouraging sponsors

2007-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
2007/10/24, Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If we produce Proceedings each year, I don't see why we couldn't produce a magazine that replaces the proceedings. Or, if we don't want to replace the proceedings, my idea would be just to include Ads in them. I really like this idea.

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