Re: [Debconf-team] Conf dinner logistics challenge
Hi, On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:33:51PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > the number of people registered for conf dinner is now >+25% of the > initial plans, and we need to rethink to adjust for this new size. I know this might complicate planning ahead further, but I would assume that quite a few people would like to hike there if the weather permits. Certainly I would. The ca. 1:30 hike[1] would go along the Necker river and the Philospher's Walk and then up the hill, it sounds like a nice and not too difficult hike to me. Michael [1] Google Maps: https://goo.gl/2RZKbj ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Conf dinner logistics challenge
also sprach Michael Banck [2015-07-22 12:02 +0200]: > I know this might complicate planning ahead further, but I would assume > that quite a few people would like to hike there if the weather permits. > Certainly I would. Yes, I also hope someone not keen on hiking will volunteer to herd the masses into the busses. > The ca. 1:30 hike[1] would go along the Necker river and the > Philospher's Walk and then up the hill, it sounds like a nice and > not too difficult hike to me. The last bit does require us to climb 400m of height, which hardly classifies as extreme sports. And never does a beer taste as good as after a bit of exercise! ;) -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : DebConf orga team `. `'` `- DebConf15: Heidelberg, Germany: http://debconf15.debconf.org DebConf16: Cape Town: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16 digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Conf dinner logistics challenge
Am 22.07.2015 um 12:53 schrieb martin f krafft: The last bit does require us to climb 400m of height, which hardly classifies as extreme sports. And never does a beer taste as good as after a bit of exercise! ;) There is nothing more pleasing than sitting next to a group of sweating men, half of them stripped to the waist, while they down three beers each as quickly as possible and praise their own achievements. TL;DR: we'll reserve a table for the hiking group :) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Publicity: pending blogposts to be scheduled/published
also sprach Laura Arjona Reina [2015-07-20 22:45 +0200]: > 1.- Blog post at bits.debian.org for last set of sponsors, similar to > the already published ones. > > This one I can prepare it. Please say *when you want it published* and > I'll coordinate with Ana. Even though we never promised these blog posts, I think your idea is good. How about we publish it early August? > 2.- Blog post for blog.debconf about "DebConf15 is almost here!" > Ideas: Thanks to sponsors (link to the 3 blogposts in bits? Just say all > their names, grouped in levels?), reminder to attendants to read their > mail and coordinate accomodation etc, some numbers: of attendants, > number of talks, keynotes, whatever..., volunteers for video team needed I wouldn't do much more with sponsors, except we should mention HP. It would be useful to include links to https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Welcome https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/FAQs https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/WhatToBring and polish those pages, also to include links to e.g. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/CheeseWineBoF https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/MobilePhonesAndData https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/ArrivingEarly https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/StayingAfter In general, before we publish this article (which is a good idea), the wiki really needs to be fixed up. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15 should probably become the main entry page (with content from DebConf15/Welcome, or prominently link there), and we should put onto the wiki definitive information that goes into the mails we send, like - Getting there - Check-in process and payment - Food for non-hostel-guests - … > 3.- Reproduce somewhere the article that was sent to the German > press? (In English) I don't know anything about this, but I think > that it could be reproduced in a Debian-media, or at least linked > to it (in the Press coverage page? in the above blog post?) Nothing has been sent yet, mostly due to lack of time. The article is still at https://titanpad.com/201507-dc15-pr. We should probably put it on the website along with an English translation and then reach out to the media. I volunteer to do the translation, but can someone else please compile a list of media contacts and be in charge of shoving the link their way? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "licht wird alles, was ich fasse" - friedrich nietzsche digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Preliminar schedule (everything can change)
Hey Maxy, this looks like painful, manual work, thanks a lot for all your effort! I mainly have one point of concern when I see events like marga's "Go" talk, and stuff about Xapian, MySQL, Obnam, Icinga, etc. on the Open Weekend. Those events are relevant to Debian development or of interest to our community, but they aren't really interesting to the public coming to DebConf for a glimpse of Debian. On the other hand, talks like the bits from the DPL, sandstorm, systemd, reproducibl builds, Debian&FSF etc. do seem of interest to the wider public. Might it be possible to swap out some of the lesser-Debian and more-technical talks on the Open Weekend for some of the pure-Debian events scheduled later at the moment? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : DebConf orga team `. `'` `- DebConf15: Heidelberg, Germany: http://debconf15.debconf.org DebConf16: Cape Town: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16 digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Preliminar schedule (everything can change)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 01:52:06PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > On the other hand, talks like the bits from the DPL, sandstorm, > systemd, reproducibl builds, Debian&FSF etc. do seem of interest to > the wider public. The "Bits from the DPL" talk did not have enough information to figure out the audience, but we can check back for that one. Most of the others ones (certainly sandstorm, systemd and reproducible builds) could not be scheduled at Open Weekend because (some of) the speakers not being present then. Michael ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] video title slide and footer
We need someone to create the title slide that gets put at the start of the videos. to see last years, look at the first few seconds of http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/Adhoc_crossbuilds_and_multibuilds_Xen_NetBSD_in_Debian_as_a_nonarch.webm Someone needs to determine what logos and other images and colours and fonts. and create an svg. here is last years: http://5cda49ca88af98bf1f1e-b4c3b47b38bb1b572e0805ecabeeb59c.r76.cf2.rackcdn.com/dc14_title.svg (note, the text only renders correctly in Inkscape) As soon as someone creates something and sends it to me, I'll generate titles for the talks that are currently in the system and put them up for review, like this: http://veyepar.nextdayvideo.com/main/title_slides/302/ I expect by the time someone does this Tumbleweed will have setup the server and he will be the one driving. But for now I can help getting a head start while he is at OSCON We also need a footer. this can be a static image. Names of the crew would be nice. or organizing team. It is mostly there to let people know the video has really ended and not their player froze. -- Carl K ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Preliminar schedule (everything can change)
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:48:38PM +0200, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > >On 20/07/15 20:48, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > >> I'm attaching a DRAFT version of the schedule, comments are welcome, do not > >> consider this the final version. > > > > Is this the complete list of talks that are scheduled, or are more yet > to be added? Hi Steve, This is the complete list of accepted talks, you can check all the talks on summit: https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/all/ Cheers -- René ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Plan to organise a one-day workshop pre-DebConf
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach Didier 'OdyX' Raboud [2015-07-21 16:10 +0200]: >> (Apparently the workshop.xhtml page has been removed from the >> site, that doesn't help… ) > > Sorry, the idea is off. You can find the text here: > > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/dc15.git/commit/website/workshop.xhtml?id=d37a7bcdb1d2fb1d88666ad21db4f6f8e84754c1 > > Thanks for your mail. I think you hit the nail on the head when you > mentioned trust. We've established I miscommunicated this quite > a bit, but other than that, people seem to immediately focus on the > negative aspects, and individual interests, rather than taking > a step back and assessing the idea more objectively. How utterly depressing (assuming that you mean by "the idea is off" that you've cancelled the whole thing). I do understand that as techies, we're all very highly tuned indeed to look for potential down-sides in every scenario, but perhaps it's worth remembering that in order to be reading this list people need to have fought long and hard to volunteer totally unreasonable amounts of time, effort and quite often money, despite constant aggravation from all sides. Anyone of questionable motives, unless they were astonishingly stupid, would be able to find any number of more pleasurable ways of getting their hands on some unearned bounty. Not that I think it was in this case, but even if something looks to be in part motivated by drumming up future business, that's just fine. More people using Debian is great. More people paying money to Debian Developers to work on Debian is great. More people noticing that Debconf is on, and being persuaded to come and have a look by the reverse psychology of being charged for the privilege ... is great! They might even have told their friends and all turned up for the open day, which might have helped avoid the pathetic spectacle of people addressing an almost empty room that we normally have to witness. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] VoIP info
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:52:28PM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Dear all, > > thanks to sipgate.de, we now have 13 numbers and a call budget for > DebConf use. Front-desk etc can use those instead of using their own > money & numbers. > > Details at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Infrastructure/VoIP > > If you think you need a number or a way to call out, do let me know. > > If we need more numbers or more funds, we can let them know and they > will increase the limits. > > > > This offer does _not_ include VoIP phones so if anyone has spares > lying around, please add to the list on the wiki. I have a Grandstream GXP2100 and a Snom 320 which are not (really) in use. Would they help? -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] 30 minute talks
I just want to highlight two benefits of talk slots under 30 minutes: a) easier for the content team to fit in everybody who contributes to Debian b) for those rooms the video team can't cover, DSLR video recording is one option. Many DSLR cameras that have video capability are crippled to a maximum 30 minute recording. Of course, DSLR doesn't capture the content from the projector and it doesn't enable live streaming and all the other goodies the video team are capable of but it is an option and it has been used at other events. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Preliminar schedule (everything can change)
Hi! On 21/07/15 17:11, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:58:12PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >> I believe the content team reserves the right to add additional talks >> until the conference is over, but it is not anticipated that this will >> happen on a larger scales than maybe a handful. > OK... I'm really unhappy to not see my ARM BoF in the list of accepted > talks, with no feedback given. I'm sorry, there was a misunderstanding. The schedule included only the BoFs that were selected for video coverage. The BoF is accepted, but it hasn't been assigned to have video coverage. > And (very confusingly!) the > Debian-CD BoF session (230) is in Maxy's preliminary schedule but not > in the list at https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/all/ . We haven't tagged all the BoFs in summit yet. That's coming. Happy hacking, -- "If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right" -- Leahy's Law Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/ 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] 30 minute talks
Hi, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:10:01PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I just want to highlight two benefits of talk slots under 30 minutes: > > a) easier for the content team to fit in everybody who contributes to Debian > > b) for those rooms the video team can't cover, DSLR video recording is > one option. Many DSLR cameras that have video capability are crippled > to a maximum 30 minute recording. > > Of course, DSLR doesn't capture the content from the projector and it > doesn't enable live streaming and all the other goodies the video team > are capable of but it is an option and it has been used at other events. We did allow and accept 20 minutes slots this time, isn't that exactly what you are talking about? Michael ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] 30 minute talks
On 22/07/15 21:34, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:10:01PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I just want to highlight two benefits of talk slots under 30 minutes: >> >> a) easier for the content team to fit in everybody who contributes to Debian >> >> b) for those rooms the video team can't cover, DSLR video recording is >> one option. Many DSLR cameras that have video capability are crippled >> to a maximum 30 minute recording. >> >> Of course, DSLR doesn't capture the content from the projector and it >> doesn't enable live streaming and all the other goodies the video team >> are capable of but it is an option and it has been used at other events. > > We did allow and accept 20 minutes slots this time, isn't that exactly > what you are talking about? > Yes, I'm aware of that, this was not a criticism of the content team. It was just aimed at raising a couple of points that could be helpful for speakers to understand the possibilities if the content team has a lot of contention to deal with. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] video title slide - 2 choices
We now have two proposed - can someone pick one? On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Jack Henschel wrote: > So this is my proposal for the video title slide. > I have attached an SVG Version (please open with InkScape) and a PNG > version (just to have a look at it). > > I used the DejaVu Sans for everything except the talk title, which is > Oxygen Mono (as a visual typeset). > > For the colors I tried to stick with the DebConf15 colors used on the > Website (Red, Yellow and Dark-Grey). However the yellow (for the > speaker's name) might be a problem, especially with lower quality > projectors and/or bright rooms. > It shouldn't be a problem to make the yellow a bit darker. > > One thing that definitely needs addressing: > Where can I find this "DebConf Team" logo? > (Is it even a logo?) > A quick web-search didn't yield any useful results. > > I have included the Platinum Sponsor and the Gold sponsors. I hope this > is correct. > > What do you think about this design? > > On 22.07.2015 07:22, Carl Karsten wrote: > > We need someone to create the title slide that gets put at the start of > the > > videos. > > > > to see last years, look at the first few seconds of > > > > > http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/Adhoc_crossbuilds_and_multibuilds_Xen_NetBSD_in_Debian_as_a_nonarch.webm > > > > Someone needs to determine what logos and other images and colours and > > fonts. > > > > and create an svg. > > > > here is last years: > > > > > http://5cda49ca88af98bf1f1e-b4c3b47b38bb1b572e0805ecabeeb59c.r76.cf2.rackcdn.com/dc14_title.svg > > > > (note, the text only renders correctly in Inkscape) > > > > As soon as someone creates something and sends it to me, > > I'll generate titles for the talks that are currently in the system and > put > > them up for review, like this: > > http://veyepar.nextdayvideo.com/main/title_slides/302/ > > > > I expect by the time someone does this Tumbleweed will have setup the > > server and he will be the one driving. But for now I can help getting a > > head start while he is at OSCON > > > > We also need a footer. this can be a static image. Names of the crew > > would be nice. or organizing team. It is mostly there to let people > > know the video has really ended and not their player froze. > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > 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 > > ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
