Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 07:18:04PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:17:41AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:45:10PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:35:59PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > > > > > > > Without taking any position in the recent debate over the use of > > > > > Debian money to sponsor DebConf, I would even go as far as saying > > > > > that Debian should always make sure there's a day trip. > > > > > > That's based in your personal experience and preference only. I have > > > > seen > > > > plenty of people skipping the day trip every year. I know because I was > > > > one of them. > > > > The good thing is this is something we can measure, and check the > > > > numbers > > > > the approx. numbers of how many people benefited of the daytrip and how > > > > many people benefit of the daytrip in previous years. > > > > > I meant to say: > > > ..."and how many people benefined of the conference dinner in previous > > > years." > > > > Being one of the more biased people here in regards to the daytrip (I was > .... > > Patty, if you read the full quote in my email, this is in the context of > budget and daytrip vs conference dinner. Nobody said here the daytrip doesn't > have any benefit, just that the conference dinner seems to be something more > attendes enjoy. With my point being that it should be given more priority that > the daytrip in the budget.
Personally, I would rather scrap the conference dinner than the day trip (though I am not sure how much they can be compared budget-wise). I think the BBQ for the Debian Party at DC13 was quite nice, not the least cause people could mingle freely. Having sit everybody at a table means you can only talk to people next or opposite of you. Michael _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
