I notice this from the meeting logs: #agreed debian day will be held friday 16 august, with a party in the evening possibly preceded by some talks
but ... with the label "debian day" ... does that mean there is now a wider invitation for people (e.g. not just DDs) to attend on 16 August during the day and/or the party? Or this is just an event for DDs? On 16/07/13 19:25, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I've just noted the topic "DebianDay - cancel?" for todays meeting, and while > anybody could have written this (so maybe thats just a suggestion from a > "slighty negative minded person" ;) it prompted me to finally write this mail. > > On Friday, August 16th 2013 Debian will turn 20 years and many Debian > contributors will gather together anyway for this dc13 thing, so I think we > should definitly met and celebrate this! > > And as we have video set up anyway, we should also stream this out in the > world and ask other Debian parties elsewhere to do the same, thus creating a > global Debian Day event, with local talks and local parties. (I dont suggest > streaming beer drinking, but rather talks during the day...) > > And, I believe we should ask for help to organize the party. The DebConf team > during (and before!) DebConf is usually too busy to also organize meanigful > parties, so I'd suggest to ask for help on debconf-discuss@ and debian- > project@. > > I'm aware of the schedules for both the 16th and the 17th (thanks to > http://people.debian.org/~tiago/dc13/) and think either day would be fine to > be called "DebianDay" with some tweaking. > > This mail has been written in way too much hurry, as to send it at least a > few > minutes before the meeting. Currently I believe it's best to label the 17th > as > "DebianDay", shuffle _a few_ events around and invite the general Debian > interested public. And have the former formal dinner on the 16th, turning > into > a party. > > What do you think? > > We still have 30 days to organize celebrating our projects 20th birthday, so > let's do it! > > > cheers, > Holger > > > p.s.: AIUI we have a 5k CHF budget for it too and... > > On Freitag, 12. Juli 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> There have been a couple of mails about and I've also heard discussions >> from people outside Debian who think it would be cool to drop by and see >> a bit of DebConf > > I can confirm this, I also know about such people... > >> The convenient, central location, 20 birthday and the significant >> interest in FOSS around western Europe may well contribute to the >> "perfect storm" of unwanted attention or free publicity depending upon >> how you look at it. >> >> What is the general feeling about it? >> >> Are there any severe limitations, e.g. does the contract prohibit us >> having an extra 100 people on site during the day time? > > I'd hope not. > >> I realize accommodation and catering can't cope with sudden surges, but >> can the bar operate in a scalable manner (presumably raising some extra >> money for the budget too)? >> >> Could we possibly look at inviting a food van to come and operate nearby >> at no cost/effort to DebConf itself? >> >> Maybe we could steer people towards a particular day for this - >> Saturday, 17 August, as it is the last day, it won't impact productivity >> throughout the week so it might be suitable. > > yup, sounds all good and doable to me. (Like always, on a best effort basis.) > >> I'm not sure if there is a final decision about a Debian Day - I don't >> know if this would qualify as one or not and it doesn't really have to >> be. However, that might be a convenient way to signal to people that it >> is the better time for them to attend if just coming for one day. >> >> Regards, >> >> Daniel > > thanks for this reminder... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
