Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
On May 4, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:58:34PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote: >>> That said, I hope it worked for something (and that nobody hates me or is >>> mad at me because I did it without telling anybody :) > > Oh no, not at all, in fact I think it was very much useful and > appropriate (and I have dented/twitted it around to ;-)). Still, let's > try to have it complemented by some official buzz, to maximize its > usefulness ;) > >> And yes, we'll send a more official follow up as soon as we can get >> our heads around it. > > Thanks! > > I've run out of time to day to post a draft on -publicity, but IIRC > there should already be around the boilerplate "about debconf" (and of > course "about debian"). I think all it would take to actually have a > proper announcement is an introductory text saying that « debconf 10 > will be wonderful, it will probably be one of the most attended in > history [1], will be the first in US soil, bla bla » and that people > can help making it even more wonderful by sponsoring or even donating no > matter how small amount of money. If you're up to it, please go forward. I have time to try to put something together too or at least copyedit. But I cannot seem to find the original - Raphael do you have a link? Thanks! Jeremiah ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] broken links and unauthenticated content in https://penta.debconf.org/
Hi, On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Just doing some web site triage on https://penta.debconf.org/, thanks for that! > 1) the "DebConf resources" link on the front page points to > https://penta.debconf.org/resources.shtml, which is a 404 Not Found. > Maybe it's supposed to be https://www.debconf.org/resources.shtml ? fixed > 2) https://penta.debconf.org/ contains a bunch of images served in the > clear from http://www.debconf.org/. This is considered a data leak by > most browsers, and they will usually show a "broken lock" icon. > > Standard practices for https web sites would have all the embedded > content served via https instead of http. The simplest way to "fix" the > broken lock would probably be to replace all those img src's with > https:// instead of http:// (since www.debconf.org is also offered via > https). The problem is in the stylesheet and doesnt show up in konqueror, so I left this as it is, at least for now. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:59:55AM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> I have time to try to put something together too or at least
> copyedit. But I cannot seem to find the original - Raphael do you have
> a link?
If you mean the original of the blog post, here is a link:
http://my.opera.com/atomo64/blog/2010/05/04/debconf10-needs-your-help
Some other "originals" which were implicitly referenced in my "outline"
that can be suitable for copy&paste are here:
http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100324
Thanks!
Cheers.
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[Debconf-team] Status of daytrip?
At the last global team meeting, there was approval for the expenditure necessary to make ticket reservations for the daytrip[0]. It was my understanding that either Hydroxide or schultmc would follow through on making this happen. I know that we were told some months ago that time was a serious issue involved in making this happen for the numbers of people were are talking about, and I'm concerned that we do not miss out on this opportunity. Can we get a status update of where things are at with this? micah 0. I'm intentionally keeping the details of the daytrip vague, as I am not sure if we are wanting to detail it to everyone yet, or maybe it doesn't matter? I decided to employ the precautionary principle here. pgppKZaq3swc7.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] broken links and unauthenticated content in https://penta.debconf.org/
On 05/05/2010 06:11 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> 1) the "DebConf resources" link on the front page points to >> https://penta.debconf.org/resources.shtml, which is a 404 Not Found. >> Maybe it's supposed to be https://www.debconf.org/resources.shtml ? > > fixed wow, that was fast, thanks! >> 2) https://penta.debconf.org/ contains a bunch of images served in the >> clear from http://www.debconf.org/. This is considered a data leak by >> most browsers, and they will usually show a "broken lock" icon. >> >> Standard practices for https web sites would have all the embedded >> content served via https instead of http. The simplest way to "fix" the >> broken lock would probably be to replace all those img src's with >> https:// instead of http:// (since www.debconf.org is also offered via >> https). > > The problem is in the stylesheet hrm. the stylesheet itself is loaded from http://www.debconf.org/, which would cause a "broken lock", and there are at least two img elements on that page (the navigation icons to the upper-right of the content area) that are src'ed from http://www.debconf.org. > and doesnt show up in konqueror, so I left > this as it is, at least for now. This might indicate a bug in konqueror, then. It should not represent web sites that pull data over cleartext connections as having been fetched via an encrypted channel. I'll look into it. --dkg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Status of daytrip?
Hi Micah, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:27:59AM -0400, micah wrote: > > At the last global team meeting, there was approval for the expenditure > necessary to make ticket reservations for the daytrip[0]. It was my > understanding that either Hydroxide or schultmc would follow through on > making this happen. > > I know that we were told some months ago that time was a serious issue > involved in making this happen for the numbers of people were are > talking about, and I'm concerned that we do not miss out on this > opportunity. > > Can we get a status update of where things are at with this? Within the last few days, Michael called the Cyclones and reserved 200 box seats. > 0. I'm intentionally keeping the details of the daytrip vague, as I am > not sure if we are wanting to detail it to everyone yet, or maybe it > doesn't matter? I decided to employ the precautionary principle here. Sufficient details were provided during the global team meeting that I think we can consider it as already announced to debconf-team, though probably not yet to most attendees (except as relevant to random chats so far). - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Status of daytrip?
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:40:11AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Within the last few days, Michael called the Cyclones and reserved 200 box > seats. Final payment is due July 15, and I assume this means final count as well. So presumably we need to 1) Determine final count 2) Explore sponsorship/subsidy options 3) Execute the final payment in time 4) Explore our scoreboard display options, if any ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] "Talks Selection Retreat Day" - Tues, May 4th, tentative
On Tue, 4 May 2010 17:12:15 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On May 4, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote: > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > > wrote: > >> On 05/03/2010 05:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >>> The key idea of the retreat is for local people to get together to > >>> be > >>> able to talk about the apps and then we'll enter our ratings into > >>> penta. Then all who want to contribute on penta can do so, and > >>> we'll > >>> wait for all that. But it seems that no one is following thru on > >>> this > >>> retreat, so it might be that we're all just doing it via penta. > >> > >> One reason that we're in disarray is that two of the 5 local talks > >> team > >> folks had recent schedule changes that make this Tuesday > >> impractical for > >> them. > > > > I can't join the talks team outright (between fundraising and bursary > > I'm pretty busy) but I was hoping to join in for an in-person meeting > > so as to contribute to the discussion (and that's why I answered the > > doodle pool). > > > > If we cancel the retreat idea, I'd be glad to join in some of the > > local folk in the talks team for a more informal discussion. (I can > > bring icecream ;-) > > > Since no one has confirmed for today but me, I think it is safe to say > that we are not meeting today ;-). Everyone make sure that your > doodle poll info is up-to-date so we can try to make this happen: > > http://doodle.com/8r7tti238vnd8q2p I've updated my votes, but we wont be back in town until the 20th, and the last day indicated there is the 19th. m pgpuX1VBwQxgs.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
[CC'ing -team for their input] Jeremiah Foster wrote: > On May 5, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:59:55AM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: >>> I have time to try to put something together too or at least >>> copyedit. But I cannot seem to find the original - Raphael do you have >>> a link? >> >> If you mean the original of the blog post, here is a link: >> http://my.opera.com/atomo64/blog/2010/05/04/debconf10-needs-your-help >> >> Some other "originals" which were implicitly referenced in my "outline" >> that can be suitable for copy&paste are here: >> http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100324 > > Yeah, that is what I was thinking of. I'll try to collate them together > and send a draft to the debian-publicity list. If somebody has time, it would be even better to dedicate a page on the debconf10 website to provide info to potential sponsors. On previous years I remember seeing the "sponsors pack," a pdf with some information, but haven't seen it this year (it might be there somewhere, don't know.) We could probably take advantage of SPI's (and FFIS'?) non-profit status to encourage donations since they can be tax-deductible (that depends on each individual's or company's situation, I know, but we don't need to get to the details) and *mention it* on the announcement. (and making people promote the dc10 website wouldn't hurt either, potential sponsors may also consider website rankings.) Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: > [CC'ing -team for their input] > > Jeremiah Foster wrote: >> On May 5, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:59:55AM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: I have time to try to put something together too or at least copyedit. But I cannot seem to find the original - Raphael do you have a link? >>> >>> If you mean the original of the blog post, here is a link: >>> http://my.opera.com/atomo64/blog/2010/05/04/debconf10-needs-your-help >>> >>> Some other "originals" which were implicitly referenced in my "outline" >>> that can be suitable for copy&paste are here: >>> http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100324 >> >> Yeah, that is what I was thinking of. I'll try to collate them together >> and send a draft to the debian-publicity list. > > If somebody has time, it would be even better to dedicate a page on the > debconf10 website to provide info to potential sponsors. > On previous years I remember seeing the "sponsors pack," a pdf with some > information, but haven't seen it this year (it might be there somewhere, > don't know.) We have several sponsorpacks this year, you can see them at: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc10/sponsors/#_dc10_sponsors_ there's plenty of material there than can be re-used for an announcement. P. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
Hi, On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, Pablo Duboue wrote: > We have several sponsorpacks this year, you can see them at: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc10/sponsors/#_dc10_sponsors_ > there's plenty of material there than can be re-used for an announcement. thats great! but a friendly URL (http://debconf10.debconf.org/sponsors or even http://sponsors.debconf.org/) with content appealing (also) to non technical people would also be awesome. Most of the content can probably be taken from svn and that (coming) announcement :-) cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, Pablo Duboue wrote: >> We have several sponsorpacks this year, you can see them at: >> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc10/sponsors/#_dc10_sponsors_ >> there's plenty of material there than can be re-used for an announcement. > > thats great! but a friendly URL (http://debconf10.debconf.org/sponsors or even > http://sponsors.debconf.org/) with content appealing (also) to non technical > people would also be awesome. Most of the content can probably be taken from > svn and that (coming) announcement :-) Sure, if people feel that'd help :-) I still have a backlog of sponsorship related things (among them sending the Linux Journal ad: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc10/sponsors/lj/lj-final.pdf and contacting some leads we got) to do before looking into these more exploratory items. So if anybody wants to write the announcement and/or page, we can use as much help as we can get. By the way, we send our potential sponsors more friendly URLs such as http://www.debconf.org/sponsorbrochure.pdf The question of whether to link the brochures directly from the site or not has good arguments in both sides of the issue. So far we haven't but that doesn't mean it can't be changed... (among those, the fact that we have extra pages for different sponsor types). P. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] bursary team and global vs. local
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:18:05 -0400, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > > > From a process perspective, this is very confusing. > > I apologize for the confusion this process caused. At the March 17th > Global Team meeting (and until recently) I was unaware of the previous > volunteers for the bursary team. [snip] > Again I reiterate that I didn't intend to leave out anyone who had > already volunteered nor did I intend to usurp team leadership from > anyone who desired to to serve in that role. I'd be happy to add Micah > (and anyone else still interested from the original bursary team) to the > current team. Thanks for your response! I certainly didn't mean to call you out or suggest that you had deliberately subverted anything, I'm more trying to clarify our communications and organization rather than fault anyone, I do trust that everyone is operating in good faith and trying to do the right thing! Thanks for adding us to the alias and requesting the permissions changes. I've updated http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Teams to reflect this as well. micah pgpmQfDOT7SCG.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Status of daytrip?
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:40:11AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: >> Within the last few days, Michael called the Cyclones and reserved 200 box >> seats. > > Final payment is due July 15, and I assume this means final count as well. > > So presumably we need to > > 1) Determine final count > 2) Explore sponsorship/subsidy options We're currently exploring two local sponsorship leads. Any feelings about having the day trip branded? (We can discuss off-list or on IRC although I'm not logged in today) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] announce about debconf10 call for (monetary) help
On May 5, 2010, at 19:15, Pablo Duboue wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, Pablo Duboue wrote: >>> We have several sponsorpacks this year, you can see them at: >>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc10/sponsors/#_dc10_sponsors_ >>> there's plenty of material there than can be re-used for an announcement. >> >> thats great! but a friendly URL (http://debconf10.debconf.org/sponsors or >> even >> http://sponsors.debconf.org/) with content appealing (also) to non technical >> people would also be awesome. Most of the content can probably be taken from >> svn and that (coming) announcement :-) > > Sure, if people feel that'd help :-) > > I still have a backlog of sponsorship related things (among them > sending the Linux Journal ad: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc10/sponsors/lj/lj-final.pdf > and contacting some leads we got) to do before looking into these more > exploratory items. So if anybody wants to write the announcement > and/or page, we can use as much help as we can get. I'll definitely have a crack at it tonight. :-) Jeremiah ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Al Meer, Abdulaziz wrote: > My Mailing Address is: > 4072 Green Oak Dr. Melbourne, FL 32901 > Also, can I please receive an agenda of meetings and additional info of what > will be taking place to send it to my company since they would like to know > what is this about in order to pay for me. Hi, We currently in the process of selecting talks. In the registration system you can click on "all events" and you'll see a list of the submitted talks. You can pick a representative sample to show your managers or wait for about a month when the list of accepted talks is available. We have two talks submitted by the former CEO of Canonical, for example. Another approach would be to show the schedule from last year, which should be as equally representative. Look forward seeing you in August, Pablo ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
