On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <ji...@debconf.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > I sent a mail like this to the organizers' mailing list, but it deserves > much wider dissemination. In short, please thank Richard Darst aka > MrBeige for all his hard work leading the DebConf10 local team for much > of the last two years. Even though it was originally my idea to > seriously propose a NYC DebConf, most of the work on the conference > since then was done by him, and there is no way DebConf10 would have > succeeded without him. It is quite fitting that he was the only team > member who was honored individually in the welcome talk. > > He has contributed to every aspect of the conference, but I especially > want to single out his dealings with the various components of Columbia > University, notably the Columbia conference housing office, the > facilities and public safety departments, the central IT department > (CUIT), and the Computing Research Facility (CRF) of the Computer > Science department. There have been an amazing number of contingencies > to discuss and obstacles to overcome, and he has put in roughly 26 hours > each day to accomplish that. > Bottoms up for Richard!
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