[Debconf-team] Failing laptop
Hi, Unfortunately, my laptop has recently had its X crashing badly (needs a reboot to be able to start X again).It's totally unpredictable (it can work for days without a problem or crash multiple times in an hour); I'm suspecting a hardware problem. I've tried upgrading stuff (kernel, X, X video driver) but with no luck. I am giving a talk on Tuesday and I'd prefer not to risk it. I was wondering if the orga team has a spare laptop I could borrow for an hour. FWIW, all I need is a PDF viewer. Sorry for any inconvience caused. Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Internet connection
On 07/10/11 16:29, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Oneone thinking that is setup is a bad idea? Even better would be to get a big address space so that everyone can have his internet routable IP. A /22 would probably be enough and it should be (still) easy to handout for a 2-week period. If not, your plan sounds OK too. Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] [fwd: a little help with DebConf11 sponsorship]
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:58:59AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't think that delay is the problem here --- delays are > understandable, especially during VAC-likely period --- but rather not > having heard back from the sponsoring team. Maybe someone from herb can > post a brief status update on debconf-announce about this? I don't think herb is involved in that — I certainly aren't and never was asked to :) I think Joerg is handling this by himself. Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Debian enterprise/infrastructure track
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:52:51PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > This year, we will continue to organize some talks into thematic > tracks. If you have a proposal for a DebConf track, please contact > debconf-team@lists.debconf.org. Previous examples included "Debian > Science", "Debian Infrastructure", and "Community Outreach" tracks. > If you would like to be a track coordinator, please volunteer on that > list. As discussed on IRC, I'd be happy to be a track coordinator for an infrastructure/enterprise track, similar to the one we had back in New York. I generally prefer the term "infrastructure" rather than "enterprise", although I see the point that a "Debian Infrastructure" title might be mislead to mean "Debian*'s* infrastructure", especially due to my position in the project. "Debian large-scale deployments" would also be a nice, more lengthy title. I think I'll let the team have the final word :-) Daniel explained that part of the job is inviting people to give a relevant talk. I can't think of many people I could poke, so if anyone on the list has ideas, I'll be happy to hear them and follow them up. Oh, and for full disclosure: I was intending, and still am, to ask for partial sponsorship for my (quite expensive) trip; this has nothing to do with that and the two are not dependant on each other. Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Debian enterprise/infrastructure track
Gunnar, team, On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 06:45:21PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > So, do you have a track topic ready? Have you looked at the currently > registered talks to see which you can recruit to the track? Or do you > have in mind people to invite? Sorry for taking so long to respond. I'm looking often at the registered talks but unfortunately I'm not sure there's enough to have a dedicated track. I can see 3-4 related to virtualization, plus another one that may be related to a general large infrastructure discussion. I haven't heard back from the people I pinged either, so I'm not really sure how to proceed. Do you want to wait until the end of the CfP in case the situation changes or do you need to start scheduling things ASAP? Thanks, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting with Le Camp
On 08/08/12 23:40, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > The number of attendees to talks and the number of people having food at > LeCamp can probably be taken up (iff the respective additional money comes in > adequately) by some dozens (lets say +50). But there's indeed a hard limit of > 325 _beds_ in LeCamp (that the DebConf commitee very much knew of). There are > alternate accomodation eventualities for individuals [0] but they are > addmitedly quite distant. We are also discussing the possibility of extending > the hosting capabilities of Le Camp either by allowing private tents (very > unlikely) or by providing a bigger group-tent (also unlikely, but less so). > In > anycase, we'll have more answers after the next meeting at LeCamp [1]. > > I have put the "DebConf13 venue decision" up for decision by the DebConf team > at its next meeting [2]; both the localteam volunteers and Le Camp need to > know rather soon if DebConf13's going to happen there or not. In my > understanding, the DebConf team is entitled to decide if the limit makes it a > "no-go" or not and I'd really prefer having the cut of enforcing a venue > change done early rather than late. So, I re-read Moray's analysis from about a month ago¹. The numbers there are attendee counts, not accomodation counts, so they're off but I think we can apply some guesswork. Looking at that, it seems that the actual attendee count was over 325 for DebConfs 7 and 11 and 306 for DebConf10. So it doesn't look too bad, although it's Switzerland, which is very centrally located so it'll probably have more attendees than Cáceres or Bosnia. However, what's more worrying is that blog post's second graph, the "number of confirmed attendees", which has been 455, 415 and 450 for DebConfs 7, 10 and 11. Based on that, I think we can expect *at least* a similar count for DebConf13. I also doubt that >= 100 of those people will register with alternate accomodations, esp. when it's far away from the venue as you say. (all of the above are statistics of a small sample and guesswork, so I might be way off; I'd be interested in other people's analyses) Hence it seems to me that the only way you're going to pull this off is by overbooking until the very last minute and basically saying "we have more reconfirmed people than beds, but we've seen a trend of a 85% actual/confirmed attendees ratio in the past, so we're not expecting all of them to actually arrive". IMO, it might work but it sounds very risky. Taking risks is part of the organization process though, so if you're willing to risk it, I have absolute faith in you. Regards, Faidon ¹: http://morayallan.livejournal.com/12139.html ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] We won't bring TK servers, hardware needs?
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Damián Viano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.27.1602 +0200]: >> Please, speak up if anyone have any particular hardware need and >> didn't discuss it with me or dererk. > > We wanted to put an asterisk machine in place, mainly for the fun of > it. Every LDAP user would get an account and we'd route landline > calls for free. We'd need a bit of a machine for that, though > nothing massive. I don't think that the CPU power needed will be much for that particular service, we could probably use a Xen domU for that. Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Roaming VoIP was not possible
Margarita Manterola wrote: > I didn't try it, cause I'm not too knowledgeable in this area, but > paravoid mentioned that he was able to roam with his phone. I think > he wasn't using _our_ VoIP system, though. Indeed, that's the case. I was very amazed (and happy!) about this :-) I was using my mobile phone, which is not exactly high power... I also remember someone saying that he also roamed around the hotel with his phone, altough I don't recall exactly who. Oh and FWIW, I wasn't using DebConf's VoIP but my own, but this wouldn't make a difference, it was one big single network. Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] Update on sponsorship?
Joerg, Is it too much to ask for an update on what's going on with the sponsorship money? I'm a sponsoree, a member of the organization team and a member of the sponsorship committee; you would think I'd know what's going on and yet I have absolutely no clue. I think it's reasonable to ask (and get an answer!) for more information about the status and the delay. The fact that we don't have meetings anymore shouldn't be an excuse for not being transparent about this. You obviously have some spare Debian time, enough to propose non-critical changes to the project. Please try to devote some of it on informing your peers about important stuff such as this... Thanks, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Update on sponsorship?
Luk Claes wrote: > Hmm, I do think many people think different kinds of membership in the > project is far more important than DebConf reimbursement. Of course if > one is personally waiting for money that might be different... I think that discussion is important as well. I also think, however, that changing the way Debian membership worked for the past 15 years could have waited for a day or two to apologize to many valued contributors and explain why that they should adjust their budget plans. > Anyway, AFAIK the slow burocratic process means that it's hard to > impossible to start the reimbursement payouts and an update informing > everyone is in the works. Well, at least I would like Joerg (or whoever else is involved in this) to inform the *team* of any updates and even take some input if decisions have to be made. Really, is it too much to ask? Regards, Faidon ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
