Hi shirish Again, thanks for the great questions.
I have made a 'messy' Open Weekend/Debian Day (we're not 100% convinced on a day or a weekend yet) wiki, please feel free to contribute to it: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/DebianDayMessy I worked in some of your questions there, but also address them in line: On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:46 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Have there been any proposals for talking/pontificating on Debian > Day/Open Weekend ? > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16 > > There hasn't been much talk about that. > > Is there a form or something that people fill before-hand or it's > supposed to be all walk-ins ? Good point, we should make one. Walk-ins would be welcome on the day/weekend, but if people have ideas etc, knowing about them beforehand is great. > > If there are is a form and people are filling it, it might give us as > estimate of number of attendees as well as what they are coming to > find out about on those two particular days. +1 > > For instance, if there are newcomers/newbies/noobs who are on the wall > either about free software in general or Debian in particular, then am > open to sharing the choices that led me to Debian. As most people on > the group, did my fair share of distro-hopping over years before > settling on Debian. > > To do such a thing, am I expected to submit a talk/proposal or just > this mail will do ? That's great. Speakers still need to submit a talk proposal on the main website please. I have not become acquainted with the system yet, but Allison(wendar) is involved there. > > Also is it expected in one place or all over the place, probably apart > from the 3 rooms where video professionals will be testing their > equipment and sorting any last-minute kinks out to be ready for > debconf. It is in one big place (Menzies Glasshouse), although today we thought it may be good for the catering place, so it may go to a different place, but it would be in ONE, place. It would not be in a room, and not in the video rooms, except the talks, to allow people to walk around, and set up exhibits or booths, or hack spaces without having constraints like chairs. > > IMO, all of the above info. should be in a separate page "Debian for > Noobs" and link it to the main page of Debconf 16 wiki. I am open to > creating and maintaining that wiki page if people think it is needed > and would be useful. The current page for the 'proper' info is https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/DebianDay but I would like there to be some info on the main debconf16.debconf website as well, at some stage. I would try for this wiki page to have that content, so it can be migrated easily. > > @Bernelle/indiebio what do you think ? As you are running with the > Debian Day/Open Weekend bit, you would probably be the be the best > person to answer it. I'd like it to be a team effort, but this is my main reason to be involved in DebConf, yes :) > > Look forward to learning. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > _______________________________________________ > 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
