Re: [Debconf-team] Investigating the Debian involvement in DebConf12

2012-06-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (lea...@debian.org): Hi Richard, thanks a lot for this excellent work. I think this is never said enough: having Richard in the debconf-team during last years has been a tremendous help for all DC since DC9. Not that all other people who have been involved (some for

[Debconf-team] sustainable confs every year (Re: Investigating the Debian involvement in DebConf12

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, just one little side remark, as everything else has already been said here. On Montag, 11. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: I remember hearing that DC12 was supposed to be cheap/have more of a surplus because DC13 was supposed to be more expensive. -team: Is this still the general

Re: [Debconf-team] budget and number of attendees

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 10. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: We should: - Let these people know they are going to need to pay, estimate the costs, add it to our budget, (optionally move them into professinal if that's how we want to handle it) - Let them know they won't have accom and mark them in

Re: [Debconf-team] budget and number of attendees

2012-06-12 Thread David Bremner
Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org writes: On 2012-06-10 18:30, Richard Darst wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:27:11PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: It is about 40 people in category Basic, *no* sponsored food or accom and *do* request accommodation. Can someone work out if any of these asked for

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 transaction list

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Richard Darst wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:45:01PM -0400, Michael Schultheiss wrote: Richard Darst wrote: Michael, Could I please get this list as soon as possible? There is an active thread about Debian support of DC12, and being able to say for sure the surpluses from

[Debconf-team] Professional attendees

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, In past years, before registering accommodations, we would ask professional attendees to finalize their payments. Of course, some people couldn't before then, but if we knew them and they said they would pay eventually, we'd trust that. Other people could be handled case-by-case. - Richard

Re: [Debconf-team] Investigating the Debian involvement in DebConf12

2012-06-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Richard Darst dijo [Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:19:03PM -0400]: Just so everyone know what it's like, let me describe organizing a DebConf. It's like skiing down a mountain. Except you have no skis, and it's really steep, so you are basically in a controlled fall. You can't really stop yourself

[Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, Money we still need: - Miscellaneous expenses (5 k$) - Accommodation sponsorship: about 5-10 k$ - Travel sponsorship: about 30-40 k$ Sources of money are (we will use money from top to bottom, but bottom ones generally become confirmed first): - Reducing number of attendees (will naturally

Re: [Debconf-team] Professional attendees

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: In past years, before registering accommodations, we would ask professional attendees to finalize their payments. Of course, some people couldn't before then, but if we knew them and they said they would pay eventually, we'd trust that. Other

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: We *do* have enough for accom sponsorship, I think. \o/ We haven't talked about travel sponsorship yet, or identified where that money will come from. I think that it is reasonable to ask for DC11 surplus to be able to send out travel

Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Freitag, 8. Juni 2012, Martin Schulze wrote: When you say quotes, do you mean something that means DebConf12 is obligated to pay .XX cordobas to us by June YY for the purpose of , even if there may be more payments in either direction later to finalize things? In that

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:42:31PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Hi, Money we still need: - Miscellaneous expenses (5 k$) Actually, probably most of these would be covered already in the budget. - Accommodation sponsorship: about 5-10 k$ - Travel sponsorship: about 30-40 k$ Travel

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: - Miscellaneous expenses (5 k$) Actually, probably most of these would be covered already in the budget. good. Travel sponsorship: - 15k$ gets most people who have good ratings remarks (which I assume would be around a good cutoff

[Debconf-team] Penta sql access for cate and n0rman

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
Admins, cate and n0rman asked several days/weeks ago for penta SQL access. I recall from IRC confirmation that you got the emails. Could you set this up for them? They would then be able to run scripts to do useful things, without me needing to do it myself. This has gotten to the point I

[Debconf-team] DebConf11 surplus for DebConf 12 (was: Re: Investigating the Debian involvement in DebConf12)

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
Zack, We would now like to request the use of the DebConf11 surplus for DebConf12. See below. On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 09:10:32PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:19:03PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: I have (unfortunately for my productivity) started looking at

Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua

2012-06-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Schulze dijo [Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:00:16AM +0200]: If that's a quote, then a quote should be sufficient. is that also fine if thats in spanish? Oh dear! Please ask them to issue it in English. We issue donation receipts, receipts etc. in English as well, so should a

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 surplus for DebConf 12

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:36:16PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:16:11PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: These two messages describe our current monetary status: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120612.164231.5dab56bb.en.html

Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, Martin Schulze wrote: if not, how official needs the translation to be? I usually think positive... actually, having read this and thought again, yes, this is true, german fiscal authorities operate on good faith, so whatever reasonable translation is

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 surplus for DebConf 12

2012-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: Another random thing: According to the plan, we should send the DC11 surplus back to debian: - For SPI, this is a no-op since there is no separate accounting. - For FFIS, same. there is just earmarking, but its the same account.

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

2012-06-12 Thread Moray Allan
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 12:42 -0400, Richard Darst wrote: - DebConf11 surplus (about 25 k$) - Debian guarentees (10 k$) This looks like double-counting to me, as my impression was that the amount which the DPL agreed to extend as a guarantee would already count against the surplus from last year.

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Darst
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:26:04AM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 12:42 -0400, Richard Darst wrote: - DebConf11 surplus (about 25 k$) - Debian guarentees (10 k$) This looks like double-counting to me, as my impression was that the amount which the DPL agreed to extend as

Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua

2012-06-12 Thread Leandro Gómez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Martin Schulze j...@infodrom.org wrote: Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Joey, On Freitag, 8. Juni 2012, Martin Schulze wrote: When you say quotes, do you mean something that means DebConf12 is obligated to pay .XX cordobas to us by June YY for the

Re: [Debconf-team] Transfering DC12 funds to Nicaragua

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Gunnar Wolf wrote: Martin Schulze dijo [Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:00:16AM +0200]: If that's a quote, then a quote should be sufficient. is that also fine if thats in spanish? Oh dear! Please ask them to issue it in English. We issue donation receipts, receipts etc. in