These are the minutes for the meeting that took place last Monday. Please excuse the delay. It was a very short meeting (25 minutes long), because a lot of people (including me) couldn't make it. If you have issues that need to be dealt with soon, please send mail.
* 1. Talks / Proceedings The accepted talks are marked as such. Mails regarding talks were sent after the meeting. Proceedings team is assembled, has received the list of talks, they should be asking people to send papers in these days. * 2. Travel sponsorship Mails regarding accepted/rejected and place in queue were sent. Many people made mistakes regarding the amount of money requested, even though the text was exactly the same as last year. The agreement is that people that made mistakes "lost" this year. The wording will be changed for next year, hoping that people won't make so many mistakes. In a week (before the end of reconfirmation period, which is June 15th) we'll be mailing everybody regarding their status in DebConf registration. * 3. Hardware status We've had many offers for lending us hardware lately, including a nice quadcore server. We've reached the needs from the admin group, and most of the needs for the video-team group. Currently we are missing: switches, some APs (currently 8 offers) and some Gigabit NICs. The offers are listed (in Spanish) in: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Hardware * 4. Network status Not there yet. ISPs still figuring out how much they want to charge us :-\. * 5. Numbers The current numbers are a bit worrying. As of today, we have 340 registered people, but only 112 have re-confirmed. We are a bit worried that we might need to renegotiate the price with the hotel, taking into account that we had committed to a minimum of 250. However, it might only be a question of reminding people about their need to reconfirm. Next meeting: Monday June 16th 20:00 UTC -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
