On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:45:26AM -0700, Keith Curtis wrote: > I notice that most of the rest of the Debian Day talks are still there. Am I > the only one who was affected? Why would you wait to review just one day's > papers so close to the conference? It would make sense to review all the > papers at the same time--in December, etc. > > This is an "administrative mistake" that you fixed after I booked my plane > ticket, and you didn't even tell me about! It was only luck that I even > noticed! I have gotten a large number of e-mails about debconf, but no mail > would be 1/100th as important than this one. > > Furthermore, I disagree that this talk is not suitable for Debian Day. I am > a strong believer in Debian, and I bring up a lot of important issues > relating to Debian and Ubuntu, a number of which have not been brought up > before, and there are few issues in Debian as important as this > relationship, which I believe would stimulate some good conversation, and > which would therefore be a great way to kick off your conference. > > I can try to cancel my flight and hotel, and just throw away the hours I've > spent making the presentation and paper. Will you reimburse my expenses in > that situation? > > Or, you could decide to let me talk. I have made it, and booked my plane > ticket so why not just let me give it? Here is a link to the paper for my > talk: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=27. My talk is much more focused than > this paper which is an early version of these ideas.
Keith, I should note that as this does look like an item better suited to in-depth disucssion, you might want to register it as a BoF session? Regards, Kevin _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
