Re: [Debconf-team] DC18 brochure & flyer final review

ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) dijo [Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:44:29PM +0800]: > Hi, > > The latest DC18 brochure & flyer are in [0]. Please help to review them > so that we can start to look for sponsor. Questions as a non-native English speaker: - The caption on page 4's picture, shouldn't it be

Re: [Debconf-team] Dear wafer-masters, please add to stylesheet...

Stefano Rivera dijo [Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 07:29:50PM +0200]: > Hi Gunnar (2017.08.07_05:53:26_+0200) > > In order to (easily!) print out the room schedules in the morning, we > > would be most grateful if you could add the following to Wafer's CSS: > > Sorry, I experimented with this a bit at the

[Debconf-team] Dear wafer-masters, please add to stylesheet...

Hi, In order to (easily!) print out the room schedules in the morning, we would be most grateful if you could add the following to Wafer's CSS: @media print { body {font-family: Helvetica;} h1, .footer, .navbar {display: none;} table, td {border: solid;} } With

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-sponsors-team] Ring demos during the DebCamp

Dorina Mosku dijo [Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 05:34:54PM -0400]: > Bonjour Louis-Philippe, > > Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse rapide. > > Je vais voir avec cont...@debconf.org la possibilité d'avoir un koisque > pendant le Open Day pour présenter Ring. > > Merci et bonne journée. > Dorina. Sorry

Re: [Debconf-team] Rescheduling the FSF BoF

Molly de Blanc dijo [Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:59:02PM -0400]: > John Sullivan asked if I could pitch in on running the FSF Members BoF > (https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/156/). But, I have to leave Friday > morning (super early). Would it be possible to reschedule it to earlier > in the

[Debconf-team] Content team: Our current status, next steps

Hi, As most of you are aware by now - We finally have a (preliminary) schedule! \o/ It's not yet officially published, but I sent it by mail on an ODS to the content team, and Pollo loaded it (modulo some errors I will try to locate and fix somewhen soon) into Wafer. Now, I'm going away for

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsor communication issue

Daniel Pocock dijo [Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 07:09:29PM +0200]: > > Hi, > > I received a personal email from a sponsor who appears to be having > trouble communicating with the team. Who should I escalate that with? I guess it's the mail I just replied to. Note that I replied only to some of the

Re: [Debconf-team] Monday June 26th meeting -- starting at 14:00 UTC

Louis-Philippe Véronneau dijo [Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 05:01:38PM -0400]: > > Oh! One more, VERY IMPORTANT thing: At the Content Team, we don't feel > > we can (even if we wanted) properly do the Open Day. We need somebody > > to step up for it. We have 16 talks / workshops / events for it, but > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Monday June 26th meeting -- starting at 14:00 UTC

Louis-Philippe Véronneau dijo [Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:42:37PM -0400]: > Hi! > > This is a reminder for the meeting! Hello world, As it has become usual, I am not going to make it to tomorrow's meeting. This and last weeks, the Content Team was quite busy rating talks. We might have some new

Re: [Debconf-team] Monday May 29th meeting -- starting at 14:00 UTC

> This is a reminder for *Monday May 29th meeting*. As always, the meeting > will start at 14:00 UTC. > > Depending on your timezone, that might be tomorrow! As it is often the case, I won't be able to make it to tomorrow's meeting. Anyway, what is it there from us (Content Team)? There has

Re: [Debconf-team] Revision of DebConf CoC

shirish शिरीष dijo [Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 08:55:05PM +0530]: > >> During DebConf16 some ppl put some effort to rephrase parts of the code > >> of conduct. We'd like to gather opinions on this rephrasing in the hope > >> to get the new version, or an amended version, adopted. > > > > I forgot to

[Debconf-team] Request for our dear Wafer overlords (so we can better do Content Team work)

Hiya, It is time for me to start pestering the Content team (and I'm hereby doing so!) so we can start rating and classifying talks; after all, we have a deadline during April for announcing the first set of approved talks. So... We could really really use pull request #348 to do our filtering

Re: [Debconf-team] January 23rd meeting

Louis-Philippe Véronneau dijo [Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 03:16:10PM -0500]: > Hello! > > This is a kindly reminder: we have a meeting on Monday January 23rd, > starting at 15:30 UTC. Depending on your timezone, that might be tomorrow. > > As always, we'll try to keep the meeting under an hour. > >

Re: [Debconf-team] What's missing on wafer to open CFP & registration?

Jerome Charaoui dijo [Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:21:05PM -0500]: > Hi Tiago, > > The wafer TODO list is in Kanboard, compiled mainly from dc16's Gobby notes. > > https://kanban.debian.net/project/2/task/121 So, AFAICT, there are several pending issues for registration, but not for CfP, right? Or

Re: [Debconf-team] Reviewing the venue contract

Jerome Charaoui dijo [Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:30:19AM -0500]: > Hi team, > > In about one month, we will be required to make the first deposit to > establish our contract with the DC17 venue. > > I have reviewed the contract and deem it reasonable, but it should be > also reviewed by other

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams

shirish शिरीष dijo [Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:46:42AM +0530]: > > The southeast is the most industrialized region and where are the most known > > cities: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. > > > > São Paulo has the most of IT Companies, but some of them are coming to > > Curitiba because we are not far

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams

Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana dijo [Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 09:53:04PM -0200]: > > Clearly you didn't see this famous Terri Gilliam movie called, > > precisely, "Brazil", right? You have to hand in form 104-B3 to get the > > visa requirements information. > > Should we worry about this film? :-) I

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the 新竹市 Team!

Hi Paul, > > 2 - You write that NCTU wants to sponsor both venue and accommodation in > > dormitories. How strong is their commitment (do you have any signed > > letter from them?) > > The chairman of the department already wrote us a mail in Chinese which > promised to sponsor both venue and

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams

Paul Wise dijo [Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 06:32:09PM +0800]: > Both: > > Which location do you consider more important for the future of Debian and > why? > > Have you investigated any options for the day trip? > > Have any of the local sponsorship companies been contacted? > > Curitiba: > > The

Re: [Debconf-team] dc17 haz no website, let's fix it!

Keerthana Krishnan dijo [Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:28:18PM +0530]: > > Keerthana, > > > > Thanks, your help is very welcome. We actually have the design done by > > Valessio, see: http://valessiobrito.com.br/dc17/. The main blocker now > > is migrating the stlyle to our Wafer instance at > >

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf16

Tammy Manning dijo [Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:57:38AM +0200]: > Hi Everyone > > Is there anything we need to do post-debConf? Apart from the final report? > > Regards > Tammy You should really relax and enjoy. You should be very congratulated and thanked for a whole lot of work that resulted in

Re: [Debconf-team] Afternoon Meeting

Giacomo Catenazzi dijo [Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 03:36:13PM +0200]: > >> Hi Everyone > >> > >> I am off to do a couple of things. > >> What time is the Team meeting? and where? > >> I was half awake this morning. > > > > IIRC, towards the end of dinner (that would be... 19:30-ish?). I don't > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Afternoon Meeting

Tammy Manning dijo [Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:10:04PM +0200]: > Hi Everyone > > I am off to do a couple of things. > What time is the Team meeting? and where? > I was half awake this morning. IIRC, towards the end of dinner (that would be... 19:30-ish?). I don't think we discussed on where to

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf T's

Tollef Fog Heen dijo [Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:48:39AM +0200]: > > Cape Town in Winter is known for its rain, and cold temperatures on > > some days. I would strongly suggest, going with the Long Sleeve > > options.  > > I find conference t-shirts should be useful for after the conference > more

Re: [Debconf-team] Visa arrangements and timetables

Neil Williams dijo [Fri, May 06, 2016 at 01:50:26PM +0100]: > > On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:04:57PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Just wondering how long registrants should expect to wait for visa > > > information for debconf16 via v...@debconf.org? > > > > not long. If there hasnt been

Re: [Debconf-team] timing for sessions

Allison Randal dijo [Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 07:43:47PM -0400]: > Different countries have different ideas of civilized hours for running > conference sessions. Taking a look at PyCon ZA, what do you all think of > the following schedule for the main DebConf session days: > > 9:30-10:15am First

Re: [Debconf-team] volunteering for the debconf by non-locals - queries.

shirish शिरीष dijo [Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 06:30:36PM +]: > (...) > There is another way I would like to help in case I'm part of the > debconf (this time purely selfish > reasons). I do remember reading that some teams also do some sort of > small cooking. As I have > just discovered mexican

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-sponsors-team] Job Fair: team input please

Hi, I don't want to introduce too much noise, so if this topic has been discussed, please just say so. > >>1. Stand space - do we have set limits? > >We stayed clear from taping boundaries onto the ground, but we > >measured the available space, did the maths and communicated the > >area

Re: [Debconf-team] Suggestion for DC17+ fundraising brochure: advertising service vs. ad space

martin f krafft dijo [Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 09:29:57AM +0200]: > Hello, > > I am currently working with a bunch of highly professional > fundraisers and learning. There are also a couple of ideas to pass > along for us to consider for the next fundraising brochure(s). > (...) I will AOL on Cate's

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting between Debconf committee and Montreal DC17 team

Louis-Philippe Véronneau dijo [Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 02:12:14PM -0400]: > Oï! > > It looks like the best time for the meeting is Friday 25th at 20:00 UTC. > > If you haven't answered the poll yet, you still have the chance to do > so: https://framadate.org/xwPJNIfcK1wVmEL8 > > I'll confirm the

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 Bid Decision Meeting Date - Feb 29 18h30 UTC

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dijo [Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 03:01:32PM +0100]: > Given the poll announced on [0], I'm hereby announcing the date chosen > for the DebConf17 Bid Decision Meeting. > > The DebConf17 Bid Decision Meeting will happen on > > date -d 'Mon Feb 29 18:30:00 UTC

Re: [Debconf-team] Prague team: Ping? [Was: DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee ⇒ 2016.02.17 18:30 ]

Ondřej Surý dijo [Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:48:24AM +0100]: > Hi Gunnar, > > thanks for the heads-up. Somehow this is the first time I am hearing > about the Committee meeting. I guess I am missing subscription to > DebConf mailing list? Which list should I subscribe? > > 18:30 is CET or UTC? I

[Debconf-team] Prague team: Ping? [Was: DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee ⇒ 2016.02.17 18:30 ]

Hi all! (Ondřej, Michal: I'm explicitly mailing you as you are the only listed DDs as "Local Team" in the bid page¹) Two days from now, we will be just-finishing our Committee meeting. So far, several committee members and Montreal team members have confirmed they will be present; I have not yet

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee ⇒ 2016.02.17 18:30

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dijo [Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:47:07PM +0100]: > > The meeting shall take plae on Wednesday 17, 18:30. > > > > People from both bidding teams, *please confirm* you can attend at > > that time. If you cannot, please state if you can attend 1hr later > > (19:30). If that's not

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee ⇒ 2016.02.17 18:30

Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:01:47AM +0100]: > so far only 6 people have voted in this dudle poll - so if you haven't please > vote now. > > That said, I'm a bit unsure about the timing, as I think such a meeting needs > at least 7 days warning in advance, which already

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks" (was: talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit)

martin f krafft dijo [Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:04:35PM +1100]: > > I'd appreciate if we were able to add tracks to our current setup. > > OTOH, we have sometimes defined tracks based on preexisting talks > > rather than (or additionally to) the other way around... So we can > > get to that point

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee ⇒ 2016.02.17 18:30

Sorry for the noise - 18:30UTC. 12:30 Mexico, 13:30 Montreal, 14:30 Nova Scotia, 18:30 UK, 19:30 most of Europe (including Prague), 20:30 South Africa. Did I miss any of you? :) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dijo [Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 05:13:46PM +0100]: > Dear DebConf Team, dear DebConf Committee, dear DPL, > > I consider the DebConf Committee to be validly formed, with this page as > reference: > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf_Committee > > The 7 persons from the

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee

martin f krafft dijo [Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:48:26AM +1300]: > also sprach Tiago Bortoletto Vaz [2016-01-27 03:56 +1300]: > > > I was trying to not diverge too much away from the process. But > > > if there's no strong objection to skipping directly to the Bid > > > Decision

Re: [Debconf-team] I get by with a little help from my friends

Allison Randal dijo [Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:18:08AM -0800]: > > I'm still willing to help with content selection and maybe CfP > > drafting, but I certainly won't be able to drive the invited > > speakers track as I did for DebConf15 (if we still want that). > > > > The content needs a new lead

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee

Daniel Pocock dijo [Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 06:29:51PM +0100]: > On 20/12/15 18:18, Allison Randal wrote: > > On 12/19/2015 01:09 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> On 18/12/15 14:48, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >>(...) > >> Freezing the decision process may also be a practical way of emphasizing > >>

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dijo [Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:07:22PM +0100]: > Dear DebConf Team, > > Please be aware that the DebConf17 bids deadline has now passed and that > there are two bidders: > (...) > I suggest to proceed this way: if there are blockers, for the two Bid > teams or some DebConf

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf17 bids - DebConf Committee

Richard Hartmann dijo [Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 07:57:01PM +0100]: > Quoting in full on purpose. > > Can DPL just tell the committee to do this on its own this once? That, or put a delegation in place before mid January. Or come up with a different, sustainable scheme.

Re: [Debconf-team] I get by with a little help from my friends

David Bremner dijo [Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:10:19PM -0400]: > > Things are a bit up in the air at the moment, but the day-to-day > > practicalities of DebConf are pretty much the same as always. It would > > help me enormously to briefly hear what folks are planning to work on in > > the coming

Re: [Debconf-team] About microblogging

martin f krafft dijo [Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 08:50:45PM +1300]: > (...( > > I'd just prefer to not promise this to sponsors after DC16. > > I spoke to a few sponsors about DC15 twittering their engagements > for the first time and resonance was neutral-to-positive. Those > companies who themselves

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf15 Thank you ad.

Donald Norwood dijo [Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:14:40PM -0500]: > Dear Team, > > The Thank You advertisement for DC15 is close to completion, there are 3 > versions on one theme available for viewing here: > > http://debconf-data.alioth.debian.org/tmp/ > > Please be vocal and let us know of the 3

Re: [Debconf-team] Protecting Debian from DebConf issues? (was: Collaboratively drafting the next DebConf) delegation

Steve Langasek dijo [Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 09:19:52AM -0700]: > > For me, making them responsible implies that they are either actually > > taking these decisions, or exercise some sort of leadership onto the > > team actually taking these. > > > If we expect the DC$n teams to decide on the use

Re: [Debconf-team] Protecting Debian from DebConf issues? (was: Collaboratively drafting the next DebConf) delegation

Sorry for the long time for this reply... martin f krafft dijo [Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 07:01:55AM +1300]: > also sprach Lucas Nussbaum [2015-10-20 19:49 +1300]: > > Given that the chairs are supposed to protect the Debian Project > > from serious issues with DebConf organization,

Re: [Debconf-team] Protecting Debian from DebConf issues? (was: Collaboratively drafting the next DebConf) delegation

Carl Karsten dijo [Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:52:01AM -0600]: > > DebConf would become an official Debian project, and that it needed a > > delegation. > > Can you or someone explain what "a delegation" is? It is the formal statement where the DPL determines the extent of powers and

Re: [Debconf-team] Protecting Debian from DebConf issues?

martin f krafft dijo [Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:21:26AM +1300]: > > This was one of the reasons where the first ~10 DebConfs were not > > run by Debian (but by Debian people). IIRC, it was at a session at > > DebConf 10 where we decided (of course, having discussed and all > > that) that DebConf

Re: [Debconf-team] Protecting Debian from DebConf issues? (was: Collaboratively drafting the next DebConf) delegation

martin f krafft dijo [Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 03:33:57PM +1300]: > also sprach Patty Langasek [2015-11-12 13:32 +1300]: > > Incorrect. 2 of the 3 original delegates ended up losing time for > > various reasons, the last remaining delegate remained active. More > > delegates were

Re: [Debconf-team] Collaboratively drafting the next DebConf delegation

Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 08:49:31AM +0200]: > (...) > The wording of this in the current delegation is: > When necessary, e.g. when the DebConf team's inability to make a > decision has an major impact on DebConf organization, or when a > decision taken by the DebConf team

Re: [Debconf-team] Team Roles

Jonathan Carter dijo [Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:11:19PM +0200]: > Hi > > Do I understand correctly that > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/LocalTeamRoles will no longer be > used? > > It looked really useful to me but there has been some who didn't like it, if > we're not going to use it

Re: [Debconf-team] Resignation

Martín Ferrari dijo [Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:27:09PM +0300]: > DebConf team members, Debian Project Leader, > (...) > Sadly, our efforts have been met with such a resistance by a very vocal > minority, that in the end the atmosphere has become unbearably toxic -- > for us and for many others. For

Re: [Debconf-team] On the "local team"

martin f krafft dijo [Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 04:12:51PM +0200]: > > So what it is local team? I think many of us are helping bid > > teams, giving opinions but trying to avoid the conflict of > > interest, and givint true local the decisions [in spirit of this > > mail], contrary of Martin work. >

Re: [Debconf-team] website presence meeting: crunch time.

Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) dijo [Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:32:28AM +0200]: > I also don't see the need to battle them out. We have a few people > strongly in favour of wafer and no one against it (at least as far as I > could track). martin has brought up Odoo before, but has said that he's >

Re: [Debconf-team] Fixing the Debconf Delagation

Joerg Jaspert dijo [Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:23:48AM +0200]: > On 14073 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > With the current models, ideally, the Chairs would: > [...] > > - not be too involved in the organization of the current DebConf(s), > > so that there's no conflict between opinions

Re: [Debconf-team] This week's meetings...

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki dijo [Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 08:37:29PM -0400]: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:33:21AM +0200, Bernelle Verster wrote: > > Hi all > > * 2. Website meeting - Tammy, Raoul, Simon > > Other possibly relevant persons: wendar, tumbleweed, cate, edrz (me), > (other past contributors

Re: [Debconf-team] Job fair timing and sponsorship criteria

martin f krafft dijo [Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:19:00PM +0200]: also sprach Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org [2015-04-29 10:19 +0200]: The job fair is currently scheduled for the main DebConf arrival day. Actually, we would like Saturday to be the first day of DebConf and the main arrival day

Re: [Debconf-team] Job fair timing and sponsorship criteria

Margarita Manterola dijo [Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:37:04PM +0200]: I understand where these concerns are coming from. I used to live in Argentina, so I totally understand the problem. However, I also know that the further away you are, the less significant the exact day of the week on which

[Debconf-team] Leaving the Coordination Team

Hi all, I am currently the shadow of the Coordination Team. However, I must recognize I have been unable to follow DC15 organization close enough to get a decent panorama on what has been or needs to be done, and I'm very unlikely to change this soon. Between being new to the art of parenting,

Re: [Debconf-team] Citizen four screening

Maximiliano Curia dijo [Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 08:56:25PM +0100]: If there is no stark opposition, then I'd like to get the ball rolling here… I think the documentary is highly relevant to what we do and so it seems like a perfect addition to our programme. I think this would be a nice

Re: [Debconf-team] call for bursaries team volunteers

David Bremner dijo [Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:41:52PM +0100]: We need volunteers to form the DebConf 15 bursaries team. This team has two related duties - to vet applications for accomodation and food sponsorship, and - to rank applicants for travel sponsorship. (...) I am willing to be a

Re: [Debconf-team] Bitcoin payments for DebConf15

Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 01:05:04PM +0100]: I'm not really comfortable with this. Not because I don't trust madduck, but because if the Project is in the process of reaching a decision about wheter to accept Bitcoins or not, we should not circumvent that. After all DebConf

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Decision Meeting - Second take

Hi Stefano, Thanks for the succinct update report! I got a question on this; it might have been addressed already, but I'm only noticing it now: * Fleshed out the exchange control laws section. This section now says that basically all attendees can enter without worrying about their personal

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dijo [Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:25:37AM -0500]: While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to skip meat one day, I really don't agree with your proposal. Can you think of a better

Re: [Debconf-team] LWN coverage of DebConf15

Margarita Manterola dijo [Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:16:34PM +0100]: (...) Before we agree to this, though, we would like to know what the cost would be. The closest to Germany that the journalist is coming from, the cheaper it's going to be for us to sponsor them, so it'd make sense for them to

Re: [Debconf-team] LWN coverage of DebConf15

Martín Ferrari dijo [Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:37:43PM +]: Hi all, By initiative of Paul Wise, recently there has been some talks about inviting a LWN journalist to cover DebConf15, by offering travel and board sponsoring. LWN is one of the most respected news outlets in the Linux

Re: [Debconf-team] Montréal food prices update

Louis-Philippe Véronneau dijo [Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:13:32PM -0500]: Hi! We received some quotes from one of our caterer options. The Nest (McGill’s student-run café) quoted 20 CAD$ per day per person for 3 meals a day. Just to be clear, this means about 6,66 CAD$ per meal per person, or

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Costs

Philipp Hug dijo [Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 06:49:36PM +]: Hi, So far I found the following information about our main cost factors (venue, food, accommodation) Do these like look correct? Can you provide better estimates? Assuming the costs are correct, I think the following numbers are

Re: [Debconf-team] Question to Cape Town team: transportation to/from the venue

Hi Bernelle, That is correct. People tend to not want to take any form of public transport after dark in South Africa. Students usually drive here or share private taxis back. This brings another questions: If walking after dark is dangerous, and people don't take public transport either

Re: [Debconf-team] Question to Cape Town team: transportation to/from the venue

Hi again, Bernelle :) We did obtain quotes for 'dinner shuttles' - 14 seater buses to be used ad hoc, see https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Cape_Town/Potential_Venues#Transport_jottings Right, but I worry more about the daily trips that attendees will make. It would

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Prices and deals for non-sponsored attendees

martin f krafft dijo [Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:56:27PM +0100]: also sprach norman nor...@riseup.net [2015-01-18 17:40 +0100]: Not sure if it's a good idea but maybe I'm missing something, I'd prefer not to have those kind of difference, we always encourage people to support DebConf by paying

Re: [Debconf-team] Q for Cape Town bid: attendees safety outside the venue

Moray Allan dijo [Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 05:34:40PM +0100]: Still, we haven't completely avoided problems; I remember a few people having bad experiences in Managua, for example, mostly when they were obviously carrying expensive phones or laptops as is rather normal for DebConf attendees

Re: [Debconf-team] Q for Cape Town bid: attendees safety outside the venue

Stefano Rivera dijo [Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:02:37PM +0200]: I was in Managua, too. I felt pretty safe in Managua, just as I do in Cape Town. I didn't explore that much, beyond the hotel, conference venues, and the local mall. I was just too busy. There's pretty much nowhere I won't walk

Re: [Debconf-team] Next Coordination Team Meeting - Tuesday, December 16th 19:00 UTC

Margarita Manterola dijo [Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:28:07PM +0100]: Hi all, As expected today's meeting run longer than 1 hour, even without 2 teams being absent from it. The minutes and log are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-12-04-19.00.html Grrr, and

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf dinner: which style

Tiago Bortoletto Vaz dijo [Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:52:10AM -0500]: Personally, I am leaning towards common plates or buffet as that's more lively and the latter increases mingling and interaction. It also solves the problem of portions which are too small/large, etc. That's also my opinion.

Re: [Debconf-team] results from the cfp from the content team

Ana Guerrero Lopez dijo [Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:41:05PM +0100]: (...) From the chair's canvassing email and my call for help, I got the following people interested: - Michael Banck (mbanck) - Ana Carolina Comandulli (caroll) - Margarita Manterola (marga) - Martin F. Krafft (madduck) -

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsored lanyards, a proposal

martin f krafft dijo [Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:05:26AM +0100]: The amount of money needed to have the logo printed. We are selling the space in lanyards for nothing. Not true. We are trying to figure out what the right price will be. I'm pushing to have again the Debian lanyards, like the

Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: Pictures for the DC14 Final Report

Uli Scholler dijo [Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:14:20PM +0100]: I'm looking for suggestions for pictures to use in the DC14 Final Report: Hi Uli, I took a quick look at the pictures I took and uploaded to the annex, and while you are more than free to look at the whole bunch and select some more,

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf subteams list

Martín Ferrari dijo [Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:39:59PM +0100]: - In the slightly longer term, should we make subteam leads automatically/ex-officio become members of the DebConf Committee, for venue decisions etc.? I think so. Adding some external people, as Lucas pointed out, seems like a

Re: [Debconf-team] Checking people's feelings on Paypal (as an option) for Debian donations.

martin f krafft dijo [Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 08:35:38AM +0200]: I would not call these fees competitive, but there is no doubt that Paypal provides some useful management features. So yes, using it while it's a reasonable option makes sense, but IMHO, we should not just settle for it and look no

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

Steve Langasek dijo [Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 12:47:43PM -0700]: Interesting suggestion, which leaves only the aspect that these sessions could also serve to provide an incentive for people to show up and pay courtesy to the first speaker of the day. There's also the aspect that morning is

Re: [Debconf-team] Length of morning sessions (was: General schedule proposal for dc15)

Margarita Manterola dijo [Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:40:37PM +0200]: also sprach Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com [2014-09-21 18:00 +0200]: This hasn't been agreed on. I was pretty sure we had mostly agreed on this being a good idea. What sort of agreement do you want? This is

Re: [Debconf-team] Report from the talks team

Anthony Towns dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:37:15PM +1000]: * We must find a way to make submitters to make better talks descriptions. Bad or incomplete talks description made to waste a lot of time to both the talks team and attendees. Yeah, I can see this very well. We should make sure

Re: [Debconf-team] Report from the talks team

Michael Banck dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:03:29PM +0200]: also sprach Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au [2014-09-19 13:37 +0200]: An alternative approach: just reject any talks with poor descriptions. Try to tell submitters early if their description isn't good enough -- maybe give

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf orga/governance sessions at DC14

martin f krafft dijo [Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:24:34PM +0200]: (...) It's been many more months than are in a year or even two that we've become aware of the problems around DebConf governance. No change has been initiated. DC orga was shattered during the preparations of DC13, and two chairs

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf orga/governance sessions at DC14

Richard Hartmann dijo [Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 04:20:18PM +0200]: As someone who is relatively new to DebConf, not Debian, but who jumped into the deep end: * There is obviously frustration in a lot of places, this is not good. * As someone who helped spearhead the successful DC15 bid, I found

Re: [Debconf-team] Android App for debconf14

Tobias Preuss dijo [Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 04:30:59PM +0200]: Hi Martin, good to hear. My offer would be to deploy another app which is designed to work with Frab. Here is a current publication for another conference: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nerd.tuxmobil.fahrplan.congress

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget woes

martin f krafft dijo [Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:34:02PM +0200]: If we don't have consensus/approval/support by 8am PDT Monday morning, the default is that we're not getting bottles, because we won't be able to. Not sure how you want to vote on this or what establishes consensus,

Re: [Debconf-team] Developer conference

martin f krafft dijo [Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:17:09PM +0200]: Is there a reason why we call DebConf our Developer conference and not e.g. our User developer conference? The aim of the conference is development. Users are welcome, but if they are not involved in any way in Debian development,

Re: [Debconf-team] Request for Videoteam Budget increase

Steve Langasek dijo [Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:55:36PM +0200]: (...) How did you arrive at this $200 figure for HDMI to VGA converters? The *worst* price I've found for HDMI-VGA cables on Amazon is $20 apiece; assuming one per talk room, that's $70 including shipping, which is nowhere near

Re: [Debconf-team] Final schedule structure - review

Ana Guerrero Lopez dijo [Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:26:49PM +0200]: On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:06:51AM +, René Mayorga wrote: [2] http://people.debian.org/~rmayorga/schedule-dc14.png If you look at the above image, you'll see we can schedule 55 official talks and 26 ad-hoc talks. We have

Re: [Debconf-team] Motivate woman contributors

Hello Yehuda, I'm sending this reply only to our debconf-team list, it's a common practice among us to reduce cross-posting as much as possible :) My name is Yehuda Korotkin and I teach technologies in one of leading colleges for women in Israel. I thought about the possibility of introduce

Re: [Debconf-team] PSU Network Requirements

Kees Cook dijo [Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 06:33:55PM -0700]: Hi, I talked on the phone today with the head of the PSU network. I can't say I have good news at all. Umh, right. Although they can be seen in a good light: This saves us from the work of setting up the network :) They don't want us

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

Clint Adams dijo [Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:13:14AM +]: On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:52:39PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: Personally, I preferred the original Portland proposal of trying a more interleaved schedule -- for me, having blocks of three days for talks / hacking and BOFs just

Re: [Debconf-team] [rmayo...@debian.org: Summit - Propose a event form fields]

Carl Karsten dijo [Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:16:45PM -0500]: As the new Video team lead, (no worries Holger is still here) Do we need to ask the presenter permission to email them things like please review your title slide: http://...png; and later your video is here: http://; I would

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

I won't argue more on this, as it will start becoming a flamewar if we don't control ourselves ;-) Whether or not we are having a DebCamp should already be decided, and we should work based on that. So I won't fan the bug/regression flames anymore. And please, I invite the others to do likewise.

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dijo [Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:22:56PM +0200]: Le samedi, 24 mai 2014, 18.22:51 Steve Langasek a écrit : If the only way they're interested in coming to DebConf is to have a week's vacation at Debian's expense, then I don't see a problem here. Given that not everyone

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

Hello world, Jonathan McDowell dijo [Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:34:58PM -0700]: It doesn't look like we yet have a shape for how the days should be laid out over the conference. Steve put forward a strawman in http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20131001.175026.0a50b91b.en.html and AJ

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