also sprach Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> [2015-10-06 20:18 +0200]: > But if I wasn't there on a day-to-day basis, if I was unable to go > to meetings with physical people, if I didn't know the whereabouts > and details on how to arrange for $whatever, I wouldn't have > considered myself a local.
This is a very important point, and something we must not forget. On the one hand, I think we should resume the habit of sending actively supportive / critical people on site early to gain their bearings. I know this has been done in the past, but we have not done it lately, and it becomes ever more important as we expect future bids to be submitted by teams with lesser experience. On the other hand, what you say is IMHO a strong argument for doing things as early as possible. We need people on site, obviously, but if those people are e.g. not comfortable negotiating/signing a heavyweight venue contract, then it'll take a lot longer for people far away to get to the point of being able to assume this responsibility. For the record, I think the concept of "local team" makes a lot of sense, and I don't think that we'll be able to get rid of the term/concept no matter how hard we try. At the end of the day it's a useful term to refer to those people geographically close. But we should ensure that nobody is excluded just because they're not local to a site. Non-locals should still be able to identify themselves and be treated as part of the "core" team of specific conference instance. And this team has all too often been called "local team". -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@debconf.org> @martinkrafft : :' : DebConf orga team `. `'` `- DebConf16: Cape Town: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16 DebConf17 in your country? https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17
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