Hi Team, It has been brought to my attention that there are people in the DebConf team who want to follow our progress and be helpful, but who do not have very much time for IRC. To fix the problem going forward, I'd like everyone to try to use email status updates more, and I'd like to ensure that meeting summaries get emailed to the list. (Damyan is already working on one for the January 20 meeting.)
As a catch-up overview, here are the statuses of DebConf9, DebConf11, and DebConf10 (in that order): DEBCONF9 ======== Almost done with this one, finally! We just need a (corporate) sponsorship team text, and then Marga has agreed to assemble the final report. Aside from that, we have one or two sponsors left to get money from, but then we can close this one out. DEBCONF11 ========= All three bid teams (Banja Luka, Bosnia; Munich, Germany; Quito, Ecuador) are making great progress on preparing their proposals. Through the month of February, we are currently using a chunk of time in each global team meeting to receive status updates from DebConf11 teams, and the final decision meeting will occur on Saturday, February 27th beginning at 17:00 UTC for up to three hours. Separate reminder emails will be sent about this. DEBCONF10 ========= We are in very good shape. A development instance of Pentabarf is actively being used to clarify the attendee part of the interface and update it for DebConf10's needs. The detailed changes were already emailed to this list in my "Registration proposal" thread, though I'm planning to make a few more small tweaks beyond that. By the end of this weekend the production instance of Pentabarf will be prepared, as will the registration announcement, which means we will open registration! Regarding talk selection, a call for papers announcement may go out together with the registration announcement, but Richard Darst has made an interesting suggestion regarding session chairs for creating cohesive topic-based blocks of talks during the conference. This was sent to the mailing list and resulted in some on-list discussion; it will also be discussed at the next meeting. On the visa front, we have gotten a visa successfully issued by the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, which is not an easy task. In general our lawyer has quite a streamlined process for handling visa applications. We received a housing agreement from our venue, Columbia University; this has been passed on to SPI's lawyer for review and a properly revised version of this will get signed in time for us to pay the 20% deposit by Columbia's March 22 deadline. Local team member Pablo Duboue has done much work on the sponsor brochure; we will have three different versions this year, for governments, small-to-midsize businesses, and large businesses. He is planning to ramp up contacting sponsors soon and generally lead the sponsorship team. He has gotten past sponsor contact information, advice from past sponsor team leads, debconf-team svn access, etc. We are beginning to investigate catering options, but are still in the initial exploratory stage with this. Next meeting: February 3, 21:00-22:00 UTC, #debconf-team. A separate reminder will be sent. Thanks for your interest! - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
