On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:03:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > What is your perception of DebConf and its organisation? > If any, what changes would you like to implement? >
The history of the DebConf team is long and varied, and has changed quite a bit since I was involved. (Note: background follows, feel free to skip to [TLDR]) From DebConf 3 (I think) it was basically organised on an ongoing basis by one key person, Andreas Schuldei. It became apparent as DebConf grew bigger that this wasn't sustainable, and the team started to grow. At DebConf 6, the 'local' team concept started to arrive, but unfortunately it was basically just Gunnar Wolf, who did an incredible job considering it was just him, and he didn't even live in the same city as the venue! Although involved in DebConf 6, I was one of the local team and main orga team for DebConf 7. At that point, discussions started about if DebConf should be part of the main Debian project. At the time, there was some resistance to doing so, mainly due to fund raising and how we spend money. Fast forward a few years, and we have the DebConf chairs, and the DebConf team, which are different. This seems to have split the difference between the two. Organising DebConf is something that is a HUGE amount of work. There's considerations to bid again for Cambride in future, and I'm still wary about this after 2007! This leads to the inevitable burn out that's all too common from high stress positions in Debian. However, it seems at the moment the DebConf team have organised themselves to beta-test a newer way of working, with sub-teams and leads. I'm hopeful that this will work out, and enable a more long term team to emerge. [TLDR] So, in summary, I'm basically happy to leave it up to the delegated chairs to tell me if there's problems with the new set-up, and what they'd like changed if anything. Neil --
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