Re: Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-21 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, - Mensagem original - > De: "lamby" > > (On a point of order, I'm sure many of the answers to the above are simply > "time". As we are all busy people this is always to be expected so I would > gently request not responding with this reason unless you feel you would > be adding a

Re: Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:56:55PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > - If you ran an event before but you are no longer running it, why > not? Are there any specific reasons you could point to? I ran a BSP once at my company's offices [1]. The company stopped having offices not long after, so that

Re: Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-19 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 19/08/18 16:33, Chris Lamb wrote: >> I think that if one wants to promote the organisation of more events, >> the best way would be to offset some of the load to Debian proper. >> Funding is the big one […] > > Can just briefly confirm that you are referring to Debian literally > funding the

Re: Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Chris, On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 10:56PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > I'm still on a bit of "DebConf high" so I was naturally wondering when my > next Debian event might be. This is nice to hear, thank you for sharing :) > Of course, not all events need to be as big as a DebConf. I would hope

Re: Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-19 Thread Chris Lamb
[dropping myself from CC] Dear Martín, > I think that if one wants to promote the organisation of more events, > the best way would be to offset some of the load to Debian proper. > Funding is the big one […] Can just briefly confirm that you are referring to Debian literally funding the event

Re: Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-19 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi Chris, I have discussed with you many of these topics in private, but I think it is worth sharing it with the community. On 18/08/18 22:56, Chris Lamb wrote: > - If you ran an event before but you are no longer running it, why > not? Are there any specific reasons you could point to?

Input requested on "blockers" to organising Debian events

2018-08-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear -project, I'm still on a bit of "DebConf high" so I was naturally wondering when my next Debian event might be. Of course, not all events need to be as big as a DebConf. Whilst we do run a large number of non-DebConf events such as Bug Squashing Parties or sprints [0] there seems to be no