[Debconf-team] beta1 proceedings available

[Alexander Schmehl]

Hi!

I just uploaded the first beta version of the proceedings.

I still call it beta, since I still miss two promissed papers (the
OpenSolaris one and the Debian Debugging Debacle one), and haven't added
the cover and back (IIRC we used a sepperate file for those laste year
anyway, since we were printing them in colour on different paper).

It's available at
http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/debconf-6/proceedings/ and via svn
from svn.debian.org/debconf6-data/proceedings/.

If you would like to spend some time proofreading, now would be a good
point ;)

Stuff that needs to be done:
- proof read the credits; they were written by a lazy, tired german guy,
  who doesn't speak good english
- proof read all the other texts (especially "releasing in time - etch
  in Decemb er 06", the author is german, too and asked for some non
  en_DE speaking to do some proof reading)
- check typesetting (are tables and other stuff printed correctly?
  Nothing written into the border?)
- special characters (like ~ in URLs, $ and _ are also sometime
  problematic in LaTeX)
- references; while compiling LaTeX keeps on telling me something about
  undefined references, which means somewhere in that document someone
  tried to reference a section which isn't named... so somewhere you'll
  find "Please see chapter" and then nothing, since the refernce is
  missing ;)



Stuff which still needs to be done before printing:
- change colours of URLs and jumpmarks to black
- add copyright and license Information
- add late submitted papers
- move unsubmitted papers to the BoF section
- Hmm... some small introducing words at the start would be fine... but
  they are long enough as they are, so I may just leave them, as they
  are


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

PS: I asked previously to not comitt to svn directly while I'm working
on it; I heardby revoke that, feel free to do so.



signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] budget not up2date?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:36, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Do we really need that sound equipment? We have not asked for sound
> stuff to anybody, as we (at least I) completely forgot about it.

Nadeshda took at least pictures of it and gave me a list of available audio 
sets.

> The 
> work rooms are quite small and sound is only needed for you video
> people - I thought you had it covered. 

Aehm, its not "only" for the video people. It's for the people sitting at home 
for whom we want to try to give them better audio than at debconf5. (Which 
was ok, but not as good as we would want it.)

> Are the camera built-in 
> microphones definitively out of the question? Half-decent microphones
> that can be bought in an electronics shop are too underpowered? I will
> ask around, but I doubt I can get much.

It's not only that, they also have audio "desks" (aka mixers), which we would 
like to use. We should definity use the audio system in the parlamentary 
tower (to be able to use their speakers etc.) - in the smaller conferences 
rooms for the workshops and BoFs built-in microphones might be sufficient, 
though this really depends on the background noise as well. 

For the big auditorium I would definitly suggest "professional" audio 
equiqment.

> I think that in general renting stuff in Oaxtepec is more expensive
> than what it's worth... I might be grossly mistaken, of course.

Maulkin thought it was reasonable.


pgpOm5Fb3qumJ.pgp
Description: PGP signature
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Re: questions for the local team: talks and bofs

[Holger Levsen]

Moin,

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:50, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> On the down side, there are two reasons _not_ to have the video team
> set in the tower: First and foremost, the tower will have a wireless
> link to the rest of our areas, so directly storing in the RAID will be
> impossible. Second, we won't have the space available 24h, only during
> work hours. So... Scrap it :)

I agree with scraping it (because of the 24h problem) but I want to remark 
that we will (need to) setup a cable link to the parlamentary tower for the 
video team. There is even money in the budget for it :-)

> Agreed... What do you video guys think of setting a simultaneous
> exposition in the hacklab room (VC-like) 

Sorry, I dont understand what you mean here :(

> to reduce the congestion in 
> case we have talks with over 60% interest among our population. Few
> talks achieve that popularity, but we should be prepared...


regards,
Holger


pgpxlVMcXJE37.pgp
Description: PGP signature
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Re: questions for the local team: talks and bofs

[Gunnar Wolf]

Holger Levsen dijo [Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:03:16PM +0200]:
> > On the down side, there are two reasons _not_ to have the video team
> > set in the tower: First and foremost, the tower will have a wireless
> > link to the rest of our areas, so directly storing in the RAID will be
> > impossible. Second, we won't have the space available 24h, only during
> > work hours. So... Scrap it :)
> 
> I agree with scraping it (because of the 24h problem) but I want to remark 
> that we will (need to) setup a cable link to the parlamentary tower for the 
> video team. There is even money in the budget for it :-)

Umh... I'm not sure if this will be possible. First of all, it's
almost a 300m shot - a single cable will not do, you will have to
repeat the signal at least once, and we cannot put our equipment in
the middle. Second, we cross one road and one area where it's not easy
to get to the roofs. Third, we didn't ask for permission, and we won't
have access to work in the tower until a day before Debianday IIRC. In
short: If you have a way to do this, we might get the needed
authorization... But it's quite messy. Isn't a dedicated wireless link
enough for your needs? We could set up two links between the hotel and
the tower, one for general traffic and one for video team. 54Mbps.

> > Agreed... What do you video guys think of setting a simultaneous
> > exposition in the hacklab room (VC-like) 
> 
> Sorry, I dont understand what you mean here :(

We might get an overflow of people for some (few) talks. It would be
an interesting solution if you could make a bidirectional live stream
from the tower to the hacklab, so we have a videoconference.

Greetings,

-- 
Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23
Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973  F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF


signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] budget not up2date?

[Gunnar Wolf]

Holger Levsen dijo [Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:00:37PM +0200]:
> > Do we really need that sound equipment? We have not asked for sound
> > stuff to anybody, as we (at least I) completely forgot about it.
> 
> Nadeshda took at least pictures of it and gave me a list of available audio 
> sets.

Yes, with the description you gave, you reminded me we actually asked
for it :) 

> > The 
> > work rooms are quite small and sound is only needed for you video
> > people - I thought you had it covered. 
> 
> Aehm, its not "only" for the video people. It's for the people sitting at 
> home 
> for whom we want to try to give them better audio than at debconf5. (Which 
> was ok, but not as good as we would want it.)

Well, yes, but if they get low sound levels or something, they should
blame you video guys ;-)

> > I think that in general renting stuff in Oaxtepec is more expensive
> > than what it's worth... I might be grossly mistaken, of course.
> 
> Maulkin thought it was reasonable.

Ok, then I shut up. And try to get a sponsor as well for this ;-)

-- 
Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23
Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973  F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF


signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk proposal

[Gunnar Wolf]

Alexander Schmehl dijo [Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:50:03AM +0200]:
> > I had experience difficulties with submitting our talk proposal. After
> > numerous attempts to submit the proposal via the debconf site (followed
> > by Mike Jennings's requests in february), Andreas had recommended me to
> > submit the following proposal directly to you:
> 
> Just realized, that my access rights in comas aren't high enough to add
> that to the BoFs, as I promised.
> 
> Could someone who's able to do it add this session as a BoF...

Yes, I'm on it.

Thanks,

-- 
Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23
Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973  F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF


signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] RFC: http://people.debian.org/~anibal/ksp-dc6/ksp-dc6.html

[David Moreno Garza]

Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > If people leave work at 18:00 in Mexico City, they will have plenty
> > of time to go to the KSP.
> 
> Friday?

IMO, if people is really interested on attending the KSP, they will do
as much as possible they can to do it. I agree waiting for the people to
arrive would make the process finish very late. Anyway, it's also true
that going from Mexico City to Oaxtepec at 18:00 to arrive at 20:00, as
in the example, is madness, that cannot be done.

If doing it on Saturday 13rd is quite early and on Saturday 20th is
quite late, I would suggest leaving the thing as is, since Gunnar, do
you know of more persons that the ones you could count with one hand
that should wait to leave their offices at noon and then attend the KSP?
If somebody is willing to attend it, they will do it no matter what. The
next bigger KSP soon could be when and where? Next year in Scotland?

-- 
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   |  http://www.damog.net/
   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  |  GPG: C671257D
 Esto va a ser como un dolor de muelas.

___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

[Debconf-team] Something about sponsorship for Debconf6

[Emfox Zhou]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1


Hello, I was refused to be sponsored before(by a mail), but today I received
another mail that congratulates me for getting sponsored, is there anything
wrong?

And, If that's all right, I am sponsored now, according to the mail, "a
special procedure is developed to get you the money before DebConf", I wonder
how this procedure could be executed, as I'm a student, I cannot afford the
money for flight by my own.

Also, where could I got an offical certification (or similar materials), that
could be used to apply an exit visa (here in China) to Mexico?

Thanks in advance.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ 

iD8DBQFESGT6+MQbLPcULsIRAi3hAKCljKh4fH4SLYQ18oBIqU2whB4jsQCfXm+k
M+GOFZCmbbbEQ/At0yIKuG0=
=WRDm
-END PGP SIGNATURE-
___
Debconf-team mailing list
Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team