Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 07:20:58AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The main reason to attend a talk in person, rather than just watching it on > the video stream, is to be able to participate. If the talk is being video > taped, and you don't want to be on video, you obviously aren't going to be

Re: Outreach Program for Women: next round

2013-08-22 Thread Patty Langasek
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But clearly, the two most pressing issues are: > 1. find people willing to act as "admins/organizers". Many people have >expressed their willingness to help, but we still a least one person >to do the coordination. I'm happ

Re: Outreach Program for Women: next round

2013-08-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/08/13 at 14:23 +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Mònica Ramírez Arceda > wrote: > > Past round, the first one that Debian participated, coincided with the > > GSoC project, so we took advantage of their projects and mentors. Rounds > > that OPW do

Re: Outreach Program for Women: next round

2013-08-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: > Past round, the first one that Debian participated, coincided with the > GSoC project, so we took advantage of their projects and mentors. Rounds > that OPW don't coincide with GSoC will need more work because we need to > find

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > as someone who has been on the talks team in the past (i was basically > AWOL this year) it would help us in talk scheduling to have a tristate > option in penta for talk submitters: This is starting to feel like bikeshedding, but her

Outreach Program for Women: next round

2013-08-22 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
Hi, Next Outreach Program for Women round will start in the beginning of October 2013 (it will open its application process in the beginning of October 2013, have an application deadline in the beginning of November 2013, and internships will run from mid-December 2013 to mid-March 2014) Past