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

2017-07-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 07:48:44AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 01:03:15PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > As most of you are aware by now - We finally have a (preliminary) > > schedule! \o/ > > yay! thanks to everyone involved…! +1 > > First, as I expected, several

Re: [Debconf-team] status talk "Debian for Medical Software"

2017-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
[debconf-team, please read below about the booth question] Hi Andre, sorry for beeing quite late with talks confirmations. On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:15:46AM +0200, Roth, Andre wrote: > > Dear DebConf17 team, > > We are trying to send a group of engineers to the debconf and would > need to

Re: [Debconf-team] Could you please give content team members accedd (Was: Lets start rating talks!)

2017-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Ping? Content team intends to give a first selection of talks at end of April but at least two members of the team (jathan and me - may be more) do not have access to the talks we intend to select. Kind regards Andreas. On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 07:10:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >

[Debconf-team] Could you please give content team members accedd (Was: Lets start rating talks!)

2017-04-21 Thread Andreas Tille
> Yes. If you don't have it, ask any Wafer admin for it now. Please give members of content team access to the talk URL above. At least jathan <jathanblack...@openmailbox.org> and Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> have no idea how to pass the login screen. Thank

Re: [Debconf-team] Two user names tille + tille1 trouble

2017-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
anks a lot Andreas. PS: Is there any request tracker for such issues? On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea how this happens but when I registered events for > DebConf17 I was somehow logged in as tille1. My usua

[Debconf-team] Two user names tille + tille1 trouble

2017-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I have no idea how this happens but when I registered events for DebConf17 I was somehow logged in as tille1. My usual user name is tille - but there are no talks registered in this account. Also astonishing: When looking at the page https://debconf17.debconf.org/users/tille1/ I can

[Debconf-team] Family / couple accomodation for DebConf 17

2016-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Folks, sorry for not following DebConf issues closely these days. I'm quite busy with pre-freeze preparations for Debian Med and Debian Science. So may be my question is a bit uninformed bit for the moment the Wiki reads about accomodation: The lodging facilities will consist of 18

Re: [Debconf-team] About swimming in Neckar

2015-08-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Christian, On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 05:31:28PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Andreas Tille (andr...@an3as.eu): Hi, I vaguely remember that somewhere on a debconf list was mentioned that you can go swimming in the nearby pool or in Neckar. Since I'd like to go swimming

[Debconf-team] About swimming in Neckar

2015-08-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I vaguely remember that somewhere on a debconf list was mentioned that you can go swimming in the nearby pool or in Neckar. Since I'd like to go swimming everywhere I checked the Neckar-Option and found the following German information:

Re: [Debconf-team] Media coverage

2015-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:20:58AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu [2015-07-30 07:05 +0200]: yesterday I was swamped with advertising about Win 10 by German media that are payed by my dues (Deutschland Radio Kultur, ARD+ZDF). I was a bit bored

Re: [Debconf-team] Updating volunteering/teams pages

2015-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:29:35AM -0400, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: On 2015-03-15 04:45, martin f krafft wrote: following Jack's e-mail about volunteering for the website team, I noticed that http://debconf15.debconf.org/volunteer.xhtml referred to the old teams structure and I

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 05:59:03PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Could frame this differently? The normal framing (above) often ends up with an assumption that everyone must eat meat, with only a limited set-aside for vegetarians. This results in overconsumption of meat: it forces

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

2015-01-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 05:58:21PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: ... This is not a silver bullet to avoid people coming to DebCamp on vacation. But we think it's something that will help many people make the most of that time. [quoting my mail to cont...@debconf.org] I beg to

Re: [Debconf-team] The talks team is recruiting

2014-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ana, On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:04:57AM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: Please, send an email before the end of November if you would like to join. Even if the call for events won't be sent in a several months, we have some things we should start discussing already. Its definitely past

Re: [Debconf-team] Videos don't work for me, guys.

2014-08-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 03:16:41PM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: http://plenary.encoder.timvideos.us:8080/webcast-high.webm http://plenary.encoder.timvideos.us:8080/webcast-high.webm Maybe it's my mistake and I have not found yet, where they are hosted.

Re: [Debconf-team] thank you and thanks for all the fish

2014-04-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 02:44:44AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Despite all of this: each year *at* DebConf we do work very well together to make it happen. Again and again. +1 So, thank you for making DebConfs happen and fun! Many thanks for making Debian happen and fun too!

Re: [Debconf-team] Improving the lunch for DebConf13?

2013-07-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:32:01AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I'm in favour for the lunch upgrade. +1 OTOH I think we should try to downgrade the dinner during CW: people could choose to eat less (if it is a buffet), and probably we need the dining room for CW (so a buffet could

Re: [Debconf-team] Improving the lunch for DebConf13?

2013-07-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:29:06AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: On 26.07.2013 11:22, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:32:01AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I'm in favour for the lunch upgrade. +1 OTOH I think we should try to downgrade the dinner during CW: people

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trip - please comment

2013-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:46:20PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: While I agree that it's indeed a very nice hike and expect some people to actually do this hike, I think we should also offer a less strenuous option like the Gorges de l'Areuse from Boudry to Champs du Moulin. Sure.

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trip - please comment

2013-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 07:02:49PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: FWIW, my own plan is hiking from Vaumarcus to Creux du Vanbut I don't expect many people to follow such plan... :-). I still need to calculate how long it might take. I'll join you. If you mean by hiking actually

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Towel

2013-07-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:32:26PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 13, 14:21:12, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: On 11/07/2013 14:07, Andreas Tille wrote: BTW, I would buy a towel saying Don't panic surrounded by one swirl at the front and one of the back of this text. I

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-07-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'd like to give some additional hint to this topic (after just having initialised the transaction). I personally went to my Bank and they said that in case some conversion of currency is involved *all* Banks would charge you at least 12.?? Euro but 27.?? Euro (as I payed actually when

Re: [Debconf-team] Report from the Le Camp visit

2013-07-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 02:48:52PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: If someone could include Debian-branded towels into their merchandising bundle often brought to the event, this could be a very hot opportunity. SOme people with their own towels might be inclined to get one (like me) :) I even

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trip - please comment

2013-07-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:24:55PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: On 11.07.2013 15:07, Raphaël Walther wrote: Well, we will need to split the group between more or less 5 coaches of 75 persons: BREAKFAST at Le Camp + All attendes will take a picnic provided by Le Camp. MORNING

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03:41AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: Yes, we'll allow both Credit Card (PayPal) and wire transfer. I do not have a PayPal account (and I do not plan to change this). Most banks are capable of performing so-called SEPA-transactions, which are not any more

[Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I had a very bad experience when doing money transfer from Germany to Swiss for my Nomad Swiss knife: The banks have taken extra 25 Euro for the about 30 Euro knife. So we should provide payment options that do not make extra profit to random banks. I don't mind paying extra money - but it

Re: [Debconf-team] Cloud Track at Debconf

2013-06-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, my short personal answer is: Anything that takes workload from the shoulders of the talk selection / scheduling teams is fine. I have no idea whether you might get those susper-cow-penta powers to put the cloud talks into a to be defined Cloud(y) day (hope sun will shine anyway) or whether

Re: [Debconf-team] Updated DebConf Budget draft

2013-05-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:44:10PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: * 4-day DebCamp was added with a budget of CHF 2 Very cool! Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] Traveling information: Train via Germany use Europa-Spezial Schweiz

2013-05-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Daniel, On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:00:55AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 14/05/13 17:37, Andreas Tille wrote: Remark: I have found one connection from my place which only costs 39.00 for one way but it lasts three hours longer and includes changing trains 10 times. Just out

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 talks selection team

2013-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Gunnar, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:48:03PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I have affirmative answers already from Andreas and Tássia. :-) - Review + send the call for papers A CfP draft is available at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Talk_submissions So far OK (I think I had

Re: [Debconf-team] Rethinking the way travel sponsorship works

2013-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:51:32AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: The Herb Team *is* diverse and I think that the work we did last year was very efficient and fair. I particularly thank David Bremner for sustaining that work during the IRC meeting(s?) we had. I have just bought my train

Re: [Debconf-team] Asking NASA for sponsoring DebConf (or simply dedicated DebCamp)

2013-05-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:33:29AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Er, in case you missed it, the US has implemented austerity measures across the federal government this year, with the result that NASA's outreach budget is currently approximately 0.

[Debconf-team] Asking NASA for sponsoring DebConf (or simply dedicated DebCamp)

2013-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I was stumbling upon this pretty cool news http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-714958/ this morning. Hey, if I look at the stars I can see Debian for some moments! So do we have any people close to NASA or should just anybody try to approach them to fill

Re: [Debconf-team] Bubullemobile confirmation

2013-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi French friends, On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: The nice thing about it is that it has plenty of space to transport stuff, both from Paris to Vaumarcus (I will *not* fill it with cheese) and also over there. Initially, I was planning to rent a car (like

Re: [Debconf-team] DebCamp [Was: Re: Bubullemobile confirmation]

2013-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Giacomo, On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: If they have some free buildings ('free' not like in beer or in speech), we will book them (we are in negotiations to add 5 DebCamp days). That's cool. Looks as if my planed arrival date (2013-08-05) would fit

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 open to the public?

2013-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Raphaël Walther wrote: Hi list, I have been asked by linux-neuchâtel (LUG): Does this conference is only for developers ? After a discussion on IRC, I wrote this draft. Although DebConf13 is the annual developers meeting of the Debian

Re: [Debconf-team] Call for papers and talks team for DC13

2013-05-07 Thread Andreas Tille
to it afterwards (i.e. Native Englishness and such) I had a very short look onto this and it made sense to me. The team wiki page [3] currently only lists Andreas Tille as a member of this team. I confirm that I would like to take part in talk selection and scheduling team. I'd prefer if the talks team

Re: [Debconf-team] {Disarmed} CERN DebConf13?

2013-04-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 07:11:04AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Philip Hands (p...@hands.com): It would be very cool if we could develop links to try and get GRID to be more easily served by Debian servers. I get the impression that Scientific Linux is generally used, and

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsored attendees and rail prices

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:34:26AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: Yes, this is correct. You can only book 3 months ahead. The prices seem to be the similar on sbb.ch (Stuttgart-Yverdons-les-Bains, no BahnCard or HalbTax, 39EUR/48CHF) But you should also compare with bahn.de. I think some links

Re: [Debconf-team] Updated DebConf budget draft - explanations

2013-04-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:14:58PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: + CHF 3k for day trip on some DebConf we paid. In NYC it was very cheap (subway fare, not for all attendees, a baseball match). This belongs to track B IMO. We should not underestimate the value of the day trip as an

Re: [Debconf-team] Call for volunteers to join DebConf Committee

2013-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:11:59PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: I'll be happy to help... Although take into consideration I might not be able to attend Debconf 2014 (depends on location). I would join as well but having a similar problem like Lior I'm afraid I might be biased and thus I

Re: [Debconf-team] 2013-02-10 IRC DebConf meeting - Minutes

2013-02-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Didier, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 08:47:22AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: P.S. Are these Meeting reminder and then Meeting minutes mails actually useful? I'm sending them routinely assuming that they are, so I was surprised that noone took over for this one. So; useful to

Re: [Debconf-team] Call for DebConf volunteers and DebConf14/15 bids

2013-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:26:00AM +, Moray Allan wrote: 3. Please consider joining the DebConf team, whether or not you are associated with a future bid! There are many possible ways to help in the months before DebConf, including technical contributions, fundraising, or specific

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:35:05PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Has anyone that's been responsible for doing the room allocation bit of debconf actually contributed any views to any of these threads yet? That would be good - but also remember that every DebConf is different. This one has a

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: It also sounds a bit weird if you want to support the conference but not pay for the costs of your food and accomodation. If you only want to pay part of your costs you can still apply for sponored food and accomodation and

Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp Accomodation - Bed selling and professional fee

2013-01-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 03:03:11PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Yes that's right. IMO the professional attendence fee should include neither food nor accomodation. It's just for attending the conference and completely voluntary. ... For professional attendees my idea of completely

Re: [Debconf-team] I wish you a wonderful 2013 DebConf13! (oh, and DebConf14 too)

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sylvestre, On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 08:38:38PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: For your information, I was motivated to propose Paris as a city for Debconf 14 (or 15). However, these recent threads/attitudes broke my motivation to start anything on this subject. Well, I'd rather see it from

[Debconf-team] Measuring DebConf success (Was: Regarding DebConf13 planned location)

2012-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, in several mails (not only the quoted mail) people were talking about qualitative measures in terms of failure vs. success and we now even try to apply a quantitaive measure: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:45:13PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: E.g. (note, numbers are *entirely hypothetical*):

Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation analysis of Le Camp

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 06:49:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I do know that at each DebConf where the standard accomodation was 4-per-room, I don't know from where you have this standard: DebConf3 (Oslo): Standard was a Gym with mattresses on the floor DebConf5 (Helsinki): I do not know

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ana, many thanks for your nice research. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: ... http://www.lecamp.ch/visite.php?lang=# ... To my understanding, the accommodation on the remaining buildings is in a similar state. With some different arrangement for the beds

Re: [Debconf-team] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans)·

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:01:57PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: We also can't force people with cars to drivers other. Some people might want just have the car parked the whole week. I do not think that forcing is the proper word. I simply trust in the ability of DebConf attendees to organise

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 decision meeting: past and present

2012-11-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:37:51PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Ana's point is that some people would like to go to their room and not be disturbed. My point was that I do not remember that DebConf ever provided such thing like your room. There was some arrangement for people with partners as

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 decision meeting: past and present

2012-11-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 06:20:35PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: If it isn't in the contract, we can not know for certain we'll be able to camp. The responsible of Le Camp has a board behind of him who can overrule him or he can decide for whatever reason he is finally not happy with it. This is

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: [Debconf-sponsors-team] some company

2012-11-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, yes, if they are running or considering to run Debian (or a derivative) - we should not discriminate anybody. No, if they just want to put their banners into Le Camp. Kind regards Andreas (who never touched a cigarette). On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28:28PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp BSP, part 6: trust + seeing is believing

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: For several of us, it is quite possible to make this choice We have to remember the people who don't have the option to pay and people who contribute so much to Debian that it is just not right to ask them to pay. I'm

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp BSP, part 6: trust + seeing is believing

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Gunnar, On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:22:28AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Do you possibly want to draft an email calling for such pledges, and it can be discussed at the next meeting? Should we ask people to pledge the marginal cost (about 300 CHF), the professional fee (about 600

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

2012-11-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:40:12AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: tangential to your main point. However, I do think that budgeting a sponsored day trip while budgeting zero travel sponsorship will leave a bad taste in many people's mouths. To put it another way, I'm fine with waiting to see if

Re: [Debconf-team] beds camping (Was: reports from Le Camp BSP, part 2: le venue le contract)

2012-10-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:57:35AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: - The contract talks about renting tents. What if we come with our own tents? Or more precisesly: We should *prefer* bringing our own tents which I would prefer personally very much and which should be cheaper than renting them.

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp BSP, part 1-3: irc meeting(s) on the internet

2012-10-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:52:23AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: so, you can flame now. On the contrary: Many thanks for your detailed report and the insight you gave. This draws a very better picture than past discussions here on the list. Many thanks for this! Considering you also

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp BSP, part 1-3: irc meeting(s) on the internet

2012-10-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:10:37PM +, Moray Allan wrote: Only if it is shown that both options would work equally well for Debian in budget/risks/etc. is it relevant to ask which is nicer. I have choosen the term nice more or less as a sign of optimism in contrast of some very sad

Re: [Debconf-team] not a registration fee, but...

2012-10-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 22/10/12 20:45, Gunnar Wolf wrote: My issue with a registration fee is on principle. We organize a DebConf because it gives value to Debian. Important work is done there. Most attendees do pay a sensible cost to be

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] split debcamp?

2012-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I have not followed this logish thread fully but here are some thoughts: - 325 beds is a limiting factor but we always have to live with limits. I would not use this as an argument against 'Le Camp' which sounds like a pretty attractive venue to me in general. There should be ways

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsored tracks?

2012-07-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:49:33PM +, Daniel Pocock wrote: c) if it could be made clear that the sponsor was not associated with the speakers, the corporate logos could be overlaid onto the bottom of the slides I have no very strong opinion on the other suggestions but please do not

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Kids Camp for DebConf-next

2012-07-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 05:42:35AM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Premises: 0. I do not think creating yet another mailing list, project, infrastructure, ... is really needed. 1. debian...@lists.debian.org, a.k.a. https://lists.debian.org/debian-jr/, holds very low traffic. 2.

Re: [Debconf-team] Busses for departure

2011-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Velimir, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:07:31PM +0200, Velimir Iveljic wrote: I called a bus renting service but they told me to mail them about what we need. So now i am waiting for their response. If i get nothing until tomorrow i will go there and ask face to face. Any news? I noticed

Re: [Debconf-team] Busses for departure

2011-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:30:51PM +0200, Velimir Iveljic wrote: the buses can be arranged, but i need to see if we can pay for them (which is going to happen tomorrow after we meet with NGO DIVA). My suggestion is not about letting DebCOnf pay but the people wo are going with the bus will pay.

[Debconf-team] Busses for departure

2011-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, because I did not got any response from a local yesterday on IRC: I prepared a Wiki page to collect names of people interested in renting a bus for the main departure day: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Departures/RentABus Before I make noise on the gerneral list about this:

Re: [Debconf-team] Arrivals/Departures pages: should we keep the Shuttle column?

2011-07-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:07:21AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Someone made a good point that the arrivals and departures may overload the public carrier buses on the first and last days of DebConf, as I think someone has mentioned recently. Regarding last day of DebConf: IMHO it might make

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:27:22PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Andreas Tille dijo [Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:15:00AM +0200]: At some point in time (IMHO when DC 9 was running) there was a suggestion to publish the rating numbers in some way. I'd be in favour of this (but I'm not so terribly

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 06:53:01PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: The event Measuring Team Performance (712) is also very strongly connected to Blends (the effort was actually invented to see how a Blend works but it will be useful for other teams inside Debian. humm, this was already

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-22 Thread Andreas Tille
by now — Andreas Tille and Rhonda, respectively. I'd volunteer for the Blends track. I do not know if this has some technical implications in Penta. Don't miss Thursday's meeting! :) Please publish (again) the exact date / time for people like me who have obviosely missed any previous

Re: [Debconf-team] Is arriving Friday 22nd ok?

2011-05-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I have not read this longish thread to the end, but isn't arriving at 22.7. perfectly simple by just filling out a work plan for DebCamp and just do something reasonable? I plan my trip to arrive on 21.7. and have two days of DebCamp - so what are you actually talking about? Kind regards

Re: [Debconf-team] Planning arrival/departure buses

2011-04-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 01:42:53PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: (Personally I'm not sure how much babysitting we should provide. If the average DD cannot reach the venue without our help, we have done a mistake.) I think the discussion was not about the average DD is able to reach the venue

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:51AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: talks@ - gwolf will hold down this alias for now, until the rest of the team is added. (has this replaced the old committee@ alias?) Gunnar Wolf (anyone else want to be on this now? There are more people listed on the

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk submission: Difference between Submission notes / Abstract / Description

2011-04-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 05:51:18PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: Now I'm not so sure if this is correct, but let me know what you want to do and I can update instructions. As I said in my last mail: Something like: s/Abstract/Short Abstract (for use in schedule)/ s/Description/Full Abstract

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk submission: Difference between Submission notes / Abstract / Description

2011-04-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:02:39PM -0300, Tássia Camões wrote: Some notes after browsing penta... 2011/4/15 Tássia Camões tas...@gmail.com: Event title Short description (one sentence long, for schedule and report) I'd suggest adding 'one-sentence description', for printing purposes,

[Debconf-team] Talk submission: Difference between Submission notes / Abstract / Description

2011-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as every year the event submission form contains three sections: Submission notes / Abstract / Description I always wonder what the difference might be. For me the field Abstract is clear. It should be mandatory. There might be some use for Submission notes which can be filled with

Re: [Debconf-team] Using pentabarf for minidebconfindia

2011-04-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:28:35PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: There is no Debian standard, there is just one application used for the Debian conference. It is not, by far, a simple application to set up. And it is quite diverging from upstream. Perhaps I'm completely missing the point and I

Re: [Debconf-team] Global team meeting, Tuesday March 29, 20:00 UTC

2011-03-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Although I agree we need a CfP ASAP, I think it's self-defeating to have a CfP out before registration is working. Yes. People will start scratching their heads... So, I know registration is _almost_ there, but not quite yet.

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting notes, Tuesday 8 February 2011

2011-02-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:29:36PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: First, on anonymizing the requesters: I am _against_ it. It might seem I want sponsorship to favor the group of people we meet regularly - But no, I want to favor people we know and acknowledge have worked most and are most valuable

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting notes, Tuesday 8 February 2011

2011-02-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:07:25PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: OTOH, on a complex project, I know about the level of involvement some people have on some topics. I don't know about many others. And yes, I do let other voters' votes influence mine. Yeah, but you never know if other's know

Re: [Debconf-team] Join the DebConf team

2011-02-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:17:00PM -0300, Luciano Bello wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: This year I will ask myself for sponsorship and thus I hesitate to join a team to handle an issue where I'm partly biased. same here. IMHO, it would be better if the comments

[Debconf-team] Definition of talk topic groups / sections / categories?

2011-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, in the IRC meeting the following question was raised (by me): Last year we had some topics for talks: Do we want to define those before registration (and will Penta support this categorisation) or should we just wait what gets submitted and find the sections afterwards? Looking foreward to

Re: [Debconf-team] Join the DebConf team

2011-01-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:50:58PM -0600, Richard Darst wrote: * Talks/scheduling team - select talks, organize tracks and related events - leaders and committee members who rate people. I worked in talks and scheduling team some years ago and I'm willing to do it for DebConf 11 as well.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:50:23PM -0500, Pablo Duboue wrote: and I'd also love to hear more about the healthcare topic and Debian). Having a talk about Debian Med is on my agenda. If you want me to stress certain specific issues just tell me in PM. Kind regards Andreas. PS: Pablo,

Re: [Debconf-team] DebianGIS - Mapping of Debian on #Planet #Earth. #People, #Developers, #Computers, #News, #Events, etc. http://gis.debianart.org

2010-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:27:09PM -0300, Valessio Brito wrote: Hi All, DebianGIS experimental project to Mapping of Debian on Planet Earth. People, Developers, Computers, News, Events, etc. Screenshot DebConfs and Developers - http://gis.debianart.org/shot.png submit you report:

Re: [Debconf-team] A beautiful page to watch Debconf10

2010-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:51:45PM -0300, Valessio Brito wrote: http://debianart.org/live/ The page is realy nice, but the video window should be enlarged a bit. I do not speak about the size of the video itself (which is small as well and could be enhanced) but I see scrollbars to navigate to

Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: scheduling DebConf10

2010-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:32:41AM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: We've promised a schedule by June 15th, 10 days away. Advice from anyone who has done this before would be awesome. Didn't I gave advise last week or the week before last week to this list and CCing Vanessa who did the job

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:38:20AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Is anyone interested in acting as Scheduler? Does anyone with experience from scheduling past debconfs have advice to offer? do not schedule anything without giving at

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team questions

2010-05-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:31:56PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm hoping to give a reportback from the talks team later this weekend, as i offered in the meeting today. I also want to reiterate a call for help if anyone else wants to review talks. If you can even review a dozen

Re: [Debconf-team] Enterprise track comments

2010-04-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Hi. I was asked to look into coordinating an enterprise track. Here's what I've done so far. Nice to hera that there is such a track. It's a shame that I'm not in New York but I would like to ask you as organiser of this track to

Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: DebConf 10 Travel Sponsorship Team

2010-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:08:41AM +0700, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Michael Schultheiss (schul...@debconf.org): In the spirit of openness, the DebConf 10 Organizers are soliciting volunteers for the DebConf 10 Travel Sponsorship team. Please count me in. If there is any need for

Re: [Debconf-team] Tracks --- New Proposition

2010-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:25:15PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: I'm impressed by and happy about your preparations to get awesome talks^wevents at DebConf10! IMO your work is a great improvement compared to previous events! +1 Andreas -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk selection: session chairs

2010-01-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:29:42AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Richard Darst dijo [Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 06:25:05PM -0500]: ... I like the ideas brought up by Richard and Gunnar and would like to give some comments form a past member of talk selection / scheduler team. When preparing the schedule

Re: [Debconf-team] Help for DebConf10?

2009-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, just forewarding to whom it might be interested. Thanks for your offer Andreas. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:44:55PM -0700, James Dishongh wrote: Hello, I'm writing because I saw DebConf9 referenced on Slashdot, and then when I started looking around the DebConf9 site I came across

[Debconf-team] Speaker interface and scheduler interface display different times

2009-07-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I was told that the scheduled time a speaker sees in his interface is 3 hours earlier than the time the schedule team can see. The public schedule table is consistent with the schedulers view but speakers are just confused by seeing the wrong time. I have the slight suspiction that this

Re: [Debconf-team] Visit to the Old Town of Cáceres

2009-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:29:23PM +, César Gómez Martín wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Holger Levsenhol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, On Sonntag, 19. Juli 2009, César Gómez Martín wrote: Further details will be given hopefully on Monday. It will also happen on Monday,

[Debconf-team] Problem scheduling early events [Was: How to open an RT ticket]

2009-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
overlooked it. See you at DebConf Andreas. On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:09:31PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: ... if we do not want to tap into the same pitfall as last year where we were not able to schedule any event before 9:00. I was told that it is a bug^Wfeature of Penta

Re: [Debconf-team] Problem scheduling early events [Was: How to open an RT ticket]

2009-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:08:03PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, to summarize: - someone please make it possible to schedule events before 9am, like 7am. s/7am/4am/ if you ask me - it's no harm done if we do not use the time slots before 7am, but in case somebody wants to ... - Andreas

Re: [Debconf-team] Problem scheduling early events [Was: How to open an RT ticket]

2009-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
2009/7/5 Joerg Jaspert jo...@debconf.org: *EVERYONE* in the world can open rt tickets. Its as simple as sending  mail. Please give a pointer to the docs or the address which I have to send the mail to. rt.debconf.org asks for login which fails for me. If this page would contain the

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