Debian local groups BoF summary, and next meeting time

2020-09-18 Thread Moray Allan
more details in this message. The BoF video call had Moray Allan, Jonathan Carter, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana, Elena Grandi, luna, Jonathan Bustillos, Antonio Terceiro, Laura Arjona Reina, Cristoph Biedl, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Sruthi and tvaz. ## Pandemic situation During a pandemic

Debian local groups BoF

2020-08-28 Thread Moray Allan
As part of DebConf20, we will be holding a BoF session about local Debian groups, tomorrow Saturday 29 August at 19 UTC. https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/50-local-teams/ Please contact me in advance if you would like to speak on the video call, in particular if you have experiences that

DebConf15 venue decision meeting

2014-02-21 Thread Moray Allan
Once again we are nearing the end of the DebConf bid process, https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Bid_process Yesterday we held the bid status meeting, with questions to and from the three active bid teams: On 2014-02-14 10:23, Holger Levsen wrote: *

DebConf slides (was Re: Paths into Debian)

2013-08-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-08-28 13:36, Andreas Tille wrote: Thanks for the pointer. It seems there is currently no way to submit slides to Penta. I also uploaded my slides to my talks page and added a link to this in Penta. Is this something we should report or am I just missing something? Submitting

Paths into Debian

2013-08-23 Thread Moray Allan
At DebConf13 I was interested to hear people's views in the discussion session on Paths into Debian. The video of the session is available here: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/high/999_Paths_into_Debian.ogv

Re: Paths into Debian

2013-08-23 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-08-23 20:59, Moray Allan wrote: - What we advertise about routes in, compared to other distributions Not mentioned in the room, but relevant is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608400 -- Moray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Delegations

2013-05-04 Thread Moray Allan
Hi Lucas, Please could you clarify what delegations are still in effect? These delegations are listed on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization : FTP masters [17 October 2012] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/10/msg4.html Backports team [6 July 2011]

DebConf14 venue decision

2013-04-05 Thread Moray Allan
Today the DebConf team held the DebConf14 venue decision meeting, following our standard process https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Bid_process A decision was reached that DebConf14 will take place in Portland, USA. Thank you to the USA and Venezuelan bid teams for their work, and to everyone who

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-02 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-04-02 04:41, Ana Guerrero wrote: Google pays 5500 USD per project, where 5000 USD goes to the student and 500 USD to the mentoring organization. Before 2012, the 500 USD given to the mentoring organization were used for mostly for the mentors (or the students for debconf10) to help

Poor BTS interactions (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-03-29 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-28 16:35, Don Armstrong wrote: ow...@bugs.debian.org is an appropriate place to report abusive behavior by anyone (maintainers, users, etc) on the BTS. But how broad a definition of abusive behaviour are you taking here? I would have thought of contacting ow...@bugs.debian.org in

Re: Recruitment of young contributors (Re: Young people and computers)

2013-02-18 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-02-18 09:26, Simon Paillard wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:16:41AM +, Moray Allan wrote: Without the numbers, my impression, shared with others, is that the age of new DDs has increased somewhat, as well as the average age of DDs increasing just from DDs getting older

Re: Recruitment of young contributors (Re: Young people and computers)

2013-02-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-02-09 21:46, Filipus Klutiero wrote: How much of what? Your question may be interesting, but I don't know what discussion you're referring to Yes, it wasn't somewhere publicly archived -- that's why I thought it interesting to provide a summary. and the only data above simply

Young people and computers

2013-01-26 Thread Moray Allan
There's been some discussion elsewhere about how young people's experience of computers has changed over the years, and how this might interact with our success in recruiting young people into Debian. I would estimate that the conversation focused on 16-20 year-olds, as it started after

Re: Young people and computers

2013-01-26 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-26 14:40, Moray Allan wrote: - The conversation wondered how much the number of younger people coming to Debian might have reduced due to changes in wider computer use/culture. Certainly, programming languages used to be an advertised part of the system, where now they are typically

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

2013-01-14 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-01-14 14:51, Holger Levsen wrote: And we will need to take another decision rather soonish: where will we hold DebConf14?!! In our meeting this thursday we should at least come up with a rough timeline for this decision... I pinged the known bid teams about this recently off-list --

Re: Anonymous donation to Debconf 13

2012-12-03 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-11-30 18:44, Ian Jackson wrote: apparently some anonymous donors proposed to give or loan Debconf 13 CHF40K (~Eur33K). Can the Debconf global team, and/or the DC13 local team, please answer the following questions ? Since your questions remain unanswered, I just want to say as one

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-10-30 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-10-30 10:44, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: I'd volunteer to go through all feed URLs and add missing tags/categories but I'm afraid the I like to read about personal life of people related to FOO lobby is too loud. This actually seems backwards to me. Blog posts are not a good way to

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-10-30 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-10-30 20:38, Russ Allbery wrote: Would people like me to push my entire blog to Planet Debian, including all my book reviews and software release announcements? I would prefer that over only pushing articles specifically on Debian topics, yes. For the specific categories you

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-06-20 Thread Moray Allan
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 03:35 -0400, Richard Darst wrote: We could decide to allocate travel early, before we knew we'd have a surplus, and have confidence we'd eventually reduce costs. However, we are too conservative (=responsible) to want to risk having a deficit. Thus, the travel-last

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-06-11 17:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:48:17PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: That seems like a good idea, if we're in agreement that the point of DM is to be a bridge status whilst someone works through NM. I think that was the intention and presume it still

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-12 Thread Moray Allan
Phil wrote: If it is deemed that the clarification is needed, then adding 'too' is not the way to do it -- instead we could go for:  adding 'also' after 'we':    ... technical in nature, we also value and encourage contributions ...  or perhaps adding 'as well' where you were suggesting

DebConf13 venue decision meeting: 2012-02-20 1900 UTC

2012-02-12 Thread Moray Allan
The DebConf13 venue decision meeting will take place on Monday 20 February, at 19:00 UTC, in #debconf-team on irc.debian.org. Agenda: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Meetings Overall process: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/BidProcess Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting. More

Call for volunteers to join DebConf Committee

2012-02-01 Thread Moray Allan
The DebConf chairs are looking for additional people to join the DebConf Committee, in time to help break any tie that emerges in the DebConf13 decision process. Here's the short-term job description: Responsibilities: Read through the DebConf13 bids before the decision meeting, attend the

Behind the scenes with the DebConf team, 2011-07-14, #debian-meeting

2011-07-10 Thread Moray Allan
This Thursday I'll be running a special IRC session: Behind the scenes with the DebConf team When: 19 UTC on 2011-07-14 Where: #debian-meeting on irc.debian.org (OFTC) Log: http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting (after the session has finished!) This is an open session aimed at anyone who

Call for DebConf13 bids

2011-07-04 Thread Moray Allan
Although we're still in the build-up to DebConf11, organising a conference isn't quick, so it's already time for us to start thinking about possible locations for DebConf13. We encourage everyone to think about whether their city would make a good DebConf location, and, if it would, to start

DebConf trailer

2011-05-26 Thread Moray Allan
I'm just home a visit with Holger to Banja Luka, in preparation for DebConf11 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In summary, we were pleased with everything we saw there (hotel, venue, distances and city infrastructure). We had two meetings with the Minister for Science Technology, Prof. Dr. Jasmin

Re: Reminder: DebConf12 decision meeting, Tuesday 22 March

2011-03-22 Thread Moray Allan
Many thanks to both bid teams. And thank you to everyone who participated in the discussion. The meetbot minutes, with links to full logs, are here: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-22-20.00.html

Reminder: DebConf12 decision meeting, Tuesday 22 March

2011-03-20 Thread Moray Allan
Reminder: The DebConf12 venue decision meeting will take place on Tuesday 22 March 2011, starting at 20:00 UTC, in #debconf-team on irc.debian.org. Everyone interested in where DebConf will happen in 2012 is encouraged to read through the competing bids' documents and attend the meeting. The

Call for help with DebConf12 decision (was Reminder: DebConf12 decision meeting, Tuesday 22 March)

2011-03-20 Thread Moray Allan
As an additional point, the recently delegated DebConf chairs are looking for one or two people from outside those currently most involved in DebConf organisation to help out if we can't get a DebConf12 venue decision by consensus. (We prefer consensus, but if there's a need to break a tie, we'd

Reminder: DebConf12 bid discussion meeting: 1 March, 20 UTC

2011-02-28 Thread Moray Allan
Reminder: There will be a meeting to discuss the DebConf12 bids at 20 UTC on 1 March, on #debconf-team on irc.debian.org. Everyone interested in where DebConf will happen in 2012 is encouraged to read through the competing bids' documents and attend the meeting. Agenda: - Questions from bid

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

2004-09-08 Thread Moray Allan
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 03:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Since quite some people like webforums for discussion and support, and also a certain other GNU/Linux distribution has quite succesful webforums, I decided to try providing a webforum for the Debian community too. How does this

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-06 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:06:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: MJ Ray wrote: To me, the most obvious fix is to replace debian-women with something like debian-equality or debian-welcome You know, this is a pretty good idea; it's a pity that the rest of your message paints you as such an jerk