[Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10. I don't think Clint should be left out like this. The argument from the travel sponsorship

Re: [Debconf-team] Accounting stuff

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i dunno about the rest of the questions, but: On 07/20/2011 06:38 AM, Richard Darst wrote: - What is the situation on drinks for meals? Is DebConf going to have to pay for that? Thus far, water is free and plentiful at meals, and people who want anything else have been paying for beers

[Debconf-team] [budget] batteries

2011-07-20 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:50:04 -0400, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: - What date did it happen? () 2011-07-19 - How much money, down to decimal places. (and currency if ambiguous) 22.00 KM - What was the money for (ex: badge holders and paper) Batteries: 5x Maxell Alkaline 6LF22 9v

Re: [Debconf-team] Issue with Marks attendance

2011-07-20 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 19.07.2011 18:52, schrieb Gunnar Wolf: As Alexander has already answered to you, [..] Actually, no, I haven't. Why should I have? I'm merely a observer, who from time to time tries to help, not part of the debconf-team. My answer to their mail was just sent to this list (and that was

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/20/2011 07:57 AM, Richard Darst wrote: People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10. I don't think Clint should be left out like this.

Re: [Debconf-team] Changing hotel (or) room

2011-07-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Tiago Bortoletto Vaz (ti...@debian.org): Hi, I have an annoying allergy to warm temperature which makes me get rhinitis, so the Bosna rooms with no air conditioning, given the current temperature will put me in bad situation here. I've tried to explain and change it in the

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (d...@fifthhorseman.net): I would contribute to help reimburse Clint's travel costs, fwiw, whether it goes through debconf or not. +1. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] Issue with Marks attendance

2011-07-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl dijo [Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0200]: As Alexander has already answered to you, [..] Actually, no, I haven't. Why should I have? I'm merely a observer, who from time to time tries to help, not part of the debconf-team. My answer to their mail was just

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 20.07.2011 09:12, schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10. I don't think Clint should be left out

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:05:29AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Am 20.07.2011 09:12, schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am further disappointed in

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:05:29AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: for us, too. In the sponsorship form we don't ask for much information, but Clint didn't provided even the minimum of information needed to make Joerg gave me the same reason, though I find the implications most

Re: [Debconf-team] Accounting stuff

2011-07-20 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: Hi, Here's my quick summary, and some questions, on accounting. The good news is that food is 25% or so lower than reconfirmed people for the first three days, (but highly fluctuating).  This is about expected.  This

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:05:29AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: for us, too. In the sponsorship form we don't ask for much information, but Clint didn't provided even the minimum of information needed to make the decision. Sadly, it is quite common for people to file the data and

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 20.07.2011 12:00, schrieb Ana Guerrero: for us, too. In the sponsorship form we don't ask for much information, but Clint didn't provided even the minimum of information needed to make the decision. Sadly, it is quite common for people to file the data and forget about it until the

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:57:54 -0400, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: ... Some of us would just like to make a donation, additional sponsorship, or donate some of our travel sponsorship in order to fund Clint's travel. While, as you know, I'm all for this situation being sorted out, I have

Re: [Debconf-team] [budget] batteries cables

2011-07-20 Thread Philip Hands
2011-07-20 1st receipt: C.T.Retail 10x 9v 6LF22 bateries (for microphones)40.00 KM 2nd receipt: InfoCom d.o.o. 6x Mains leads (euro--mickey mouse -- for video team) 42.00 KM Locals spent my money, so I'm to be reimbursed (well, actually they spent 80KM of mine, but

Re: [Debconf-team] Cheese and Wine party location

2011-07-20 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: It's time to think about the CW party location. From what I've seen up to now, it seems that one of the downstairs hacklab rooms at Banski Dvor is the most appropriate (accessibility, size, etc.). I don't know

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Moray Allan
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org wrote: To the best of my knowledge all participants (not only those who requested sponsorship) where told via e-mail to update (and complete) their data.  Not completely sure, but I think these reminders included a

Re: [Debconf-team] Cheese and Wine party location

2011-07-20 Thread Judit Foglszinger
Adnan talked to the hotel people (the manager of Mr. Brown cafe) and we were told we can use it for the Wine and Cheese party. Do we have to wait, until Mr. Black/Brown closes or how is this supposed to be? ___ Debconf-team mailing list

Re: [Debconf-team] Cheese and Wine party location

2011-07-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Velimir Iveljic (velimir.li...@foolcontrol.org): Adnan talked to the hotel people (the manager of Mr. Brown cafe) and we were told we can use it for the Wine and Cheese party. Well, that's a (good) surprise to me. Would it be possible for me (as self-appointed person in charge for the

Re: [Debconf-team] Changing hotel (or) room

2011-07-20 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: For instance, David Prévot (cc'ed) just mentioned me he'd be OK to switch and he'll try to catch you at some time. This has been sorted out between Tiago and David. ___

Re: [Debconf-team] [budget] batteries cables

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Darst
Both of the emails in this thread have been recorded - thanks. - richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 729 days, 10:17 |http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free

Re: [Debconf-team] Accounting stuff

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Darst
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:49:15AM +0200, Velimir Iveljic wrote: Zlatan and me are working on the solution for this. Until now everyone who got a meal ticket was eating on our expense, but we need to find a way to give meal tickets only to ppl who are sponsored|professional|corporate. I will

[Debconf-team] DebConf payments

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Darst
Joey, Is FFIS capable of making direct bank transfers (to Bosnia and Herzegovina banks) to pay for some of our hotels? I had heard that FFIS might only able to do reimbursements, not the initial payments, but Holger was not sure so I thought I would check. The amount would be on the order of

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf payments

2011-07-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:58:06AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Is FFIS capable of making direct bank transfers (to Bosnia and Herzegovina banks) to pay for some of our hotels? I had heard that FFIS might only able to do reimbursements, not the initial payments, but Holger was not sure so I

[Debconf-team] sponsor addresses

2011-07-20 Thread Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
I've just been asked to relay a request from moray for addresses for sponsor bags. Could someone please provide? -nattie ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf payments

2011-07-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Richard Darst wrote: Joey, Is FFIS capable of making direct bank transfers (to Bosnia and Herzegovina banks) to pay for some of our hotels? I had heard that FFIS might only able to do reimbursements, not the initial payments, but Holger was not sure so I thought I would check. The

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf payments

2011-07-20 Thread Martin Schulze
If the receipient can provide SWIFT/BIC and IBAN codes, we can easily pay the bill. We'd require the bill, of course. A preview of the bill sent via fax to +49 441 777884 before the paper version is sent to us would be helpful. If the contry is not part of swiftland the transfer will take a

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsor addresses

2011-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote: I've just been asked to relay a request from moray for addresses for sponsor bags. Could someone please provide? Richard, can you get them from sponsors-table? TIA! ___ Debconf-team mailing

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsor addresses

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Darst
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:18:23PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote: I've just been asked to relay a request from moray for addresses for sponsor bags. Could someone please provide? Richard, can you get them from sponsors-table? I can.

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi all, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:00:40PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:57:54 -0400, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: ... Some of us would just like to make a donation, additional sponsorship, or donate some of our travel sponsorship in order to fund Clint's travel.

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsor addresses

2011-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011, Richard Darst wrote: I can. Do we always use sponsor addresses direct from sponsors-table? yes IOW: is there ever a time where a sponsor would want the bag sent to a different address, or is that handled only on a if they ask basis? if so, we document this in

Re: [Debconf-team] Issue with Marks attendance

2011-07-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi again, I would like to make two corrections to my mail yesterday that have been pointed out by some fellow DebConf organizers: First, I mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth is not part of Debian - I'm sorry, I meant that Mark is not part of the DebConf organization - He *is* a Debian Developer.

[Debconf-team] Accessibility meeting

2011-07-20 Thread Moray Allan
Let's set up a time later this week for a meeting about accessibility issues (as discussed informally this morning). Is there a particular day/time that would be good for people? -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] SIM cards for DebConf11 attendees

2011-07-20 Thread Moray Allan
Since now front desk is now active, should we move the SIM card distribution there along with t-shirt/bag distribution? Either way it might make sense (with more people coming) to put the Who has a SIM? information as a flag in penta. -- Moray ___

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:07:25 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org wrote: Hi all, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:00:40PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:57:54 -0400, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: ... Some of us would just like to make a donation, additional

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/20/2011 11:03 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: For the record, not every travel sponsorship requestor on the herb team got perfect scores, so this wasn't theoretical. I'm glad to hear this! Out of curiosity, what percentage of the herb team members that did apply for travel sponsorship did

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Daniel, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:14:31PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 07/20/2011 11:03 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: For the record, not every travel sponsorship requestor on the herb team got perfect scores, so this wasn't theoretical. I'm glad to hear this! Out of

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:46:10PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:14:31PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 07/20/2011 11:03 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: For the record, not every travel sponsorship requestor on the herb team got perfect scores, so this

Re: [Debconf-team] Accessibility meeting

2011-07-20 Thread Marcelo Gutierrez
2011/7/20 Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org Let's set up a time later this week for a meeting about accessibility issues (as discussed informally this morning). Is there a particular day/time that would be good for people? I have all the time in the world as long as we are in BL :) Regards

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Steve, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:18:03AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: When is the travel sponsorship process going to be fixed to stop asking about total travel costs vs. sponsored travel costs, and instead focus on what's important: the amount of sponsorship moneys the individual