Hi Luca, Thanks for putting the needed work into this!
> OPEN QUESTION 1: the date. > > It was decided that the DebianDay should happen the same day as the > Debian birthday (i.e. 2013-08-16), to have a continuum with the party. > However, when Raphaël and myself discussed about this we agreed that > doing anything for the public on a week day (2013-08-16 is a Friday) > means that we are targeting a subpopulation: those who work will not be > able to attend. This is why we thought about Saturday 2013-08-10, the > day before the DebConf13's opening. Sounds somewhat strange for me, but it is a reasonable concern. Also, DebianDay attendance has historically had low attendance numbers, so it is a concern that should clearly be addressed. > Another reason for the decision to separate the two events was that > no one had already shown interest in organizing the Debian party and > we did not want to do both. ...I somehow have confidence the party will, if nothing else happens, self-organize. Also, it can be the date for the conference banquet or whatever "natural" way we find to celebrate. > OPEN QUESTION 2: the location. > > Actually, the open question is not about the city where to have the > Debian Day (Neuchâtel is the closest to the venue and also the capital > of the canton where Vaumarcus is), but more about the venue. Our > requirements are an auditorium for 200 persons maximum and 2 workshop > rooms. With this in mind, the best venue would be HES-SO Arc, despite > the fact that the main auditorium is for ~100 persons only. However, > the main advantage is that HES-SO Arc is next to the rail station and > thus easily reachable even by people new to Neuchâtel: Ok. Again, if history serves us as an indicator, I'm fine with settling for ~100 people. It would be nice if a registration could be run to have more realistic expectations as to what to expect, but I don't know if it is worth implementing. > OPEN QUESTION 3: the program. > (...) > For the talks, the morning will offer an introduction to FLOSS and > Debian, while during the afternoon will be mostly centered on evidences > of Debian usage (e.g. educational/national entities or "cool" projects > like cloud). > > Obviously, we still need to send a "Call for Paper" for this. It can be via the response to an open CfP, or it can be a program built by invitation to speakers covering the wanted aspects of Debian. Thanks again - Of course, hoping to have costs for this when you get them! _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
