[Debconf-discuss] On-site rooms with over-enthusiastic lighting?

2017-08-07 Thread Philip Hands
ering, open the door slowly and check that the LEDs are still green. Enter the room -- if the lights come on at this point, you have the issue, and you should find/mail me and we can fix it. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hand

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Borrowing a Mobile Phone for DebCamp/Conf

2017-07-31 Thread Philip Hands
Denver Gingerich writes: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> Denver Gingerich writes: >> >> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 11:24:35PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> >> It seems that none of the 3 mobiles that I have with me are wil

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Borrowing a Mobile Phone for DebCamp/Conf

2017-07-31 Thread Philip Hands
Denver Gingerich writes: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 11:24:35PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> It seems that none of the 3 mobiles that I have with me are willing to >> play in Canada for one reason or another, so I could do with borrowing >> one. > > I'm curious

[Debconf-discuss] Borrowing a Mobile Phone for DebCamp/Conf

2017-07-30 Thread Philip Hands
*) so if that is you, and you're happy to lend me it, please mail me. BTW I don't care how dumb the phone -- in fact, the dumber the better if that means a decent battery life. I also don't care about data, just calls and SMS. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530

[Debconf-discuss] Debian Tartan Ties for sale

2015-08-19 Thread Philip Hands
nt_to_know http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartandetails.aspx?ref=5936 -- |)| 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

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] video team volunteers

2015-08-11 Thread Philip Hands
Christoph Ulrich Scholler writes: > Hi Phil, > > Philip Hands writes: >> Please add yourself to >> >> https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Videoteam/Help#Team_members > > I have signed up in the wiki a while ago (Uli Scholler). > >> and attend at

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf15: Call for keys for keysigning in Heidelberg, Germany

2015-07-28 Thread Philip Hands
e recipient controls the matching email address and can decrypt you mail to them. 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

Re: [Debconf-discuss] remote participation in DebConf

2014-09-19 Thread Philip Hands
s like a job for a new volunteer, unless people think that i.e. the talk-meister should have enough spare time at that point in a talk, but then it needs to be made very clear to the volunteers that that is part of the role. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-12 Thread Philip Hands
oms out so that the no-film-area is not even visible from the camera positions, because otherwise it won't be long before both the camera operator and the director fail to remember, and film it anyway when someone nearby, or even an overenthusiastic non-filmable person asks a question. Not every

Re: [Debconf-discuss] gradwell.com sponsored VoIP

2014-08-28 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: ... > Note that I'm 8 hours ahead of Portland (in Germany). And, yes, that should have been 9 hours, before anyone else tells me that. It seems that laptop is still on UK time, and I failed to notice the ``BST'' when comparing the output of ``date'&#x

[Debconf-discuss] gradwell.com sponsored VoIP

2014-08-27 Thread Philip Hands
ne by hand -- feel free to persuade me that it's worth it -- I'm liable to be easy to persuade if you volunteer to let people use your phone (or whatever) once it's set up to make calls. Note that I'm 8 hours ahead of Portland (in Germany). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Broken N900 microUSB connector: soldering required

2013-08-16 Thread Philip Hands
let me know and I'll be happy to at least have a > look at it. Bdale tells me the connector was knackered, so needs a spare. So, Frederico, if you need a charged battery in the mean time, I can charge yours and lend you a spare. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]

[Debconf-discuss] EOMA-68 (replaceable CPU cards)

2013-08-12 Thread Philip Hands
I'm unlikely to have much time to do that myself this week). Cheers, Phil. P.S. please don't turn this into a thread about "what's the point of that?" -- I'll happily attempt to answer that in person if supplied with beer ;-) -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Accomodation for families at Le Camp ?

2013-05-04 Thread Philip Hands
y nobody thought to mention it before, nor to add links to the alternative accommodation page of the wiki, linking to these several sites. Perhaps you'd be so kind to do so now? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] proposals for DebConf14 +

2013-01-15 Thread Philip Hands
they were working to fill Debian's coffers on the promise that some of what they raise would then percolate down to fund DC13. Cheers, Phil. P.S. Well done for starting a discussion that's not actively corrosive to the morale of the DebConf team, but I question why this discuss

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Information about accommodation at le camp (photos and plans) ·

2012-11-26 Thread Philip Hands
at, so implies that there's more than one room, with the "etc." suggesting even more. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodf

[Debconf-discuss] Beginners' Spanish

2012-07-12 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, Those of you that had the chance to enjoy the Spanish class we had with Xavier Paladino would probably like to know how to contact him for future lessons. Those of you that missed the first lesson might well also like to take advantage of his services. I've added the beginings of a wiki page

[Debconf-discuss] Beginners' Spanish in Roberto Teran today at 18:00

2012-07-10 Thread Philip Hands
be wrong, since this is all a bit last minute and I didn't have chance to let Xavier proof read this. Tell you friends -- I'm stupid and mistyped the address last time round, so it's late now. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-|

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Going to Nicaragua from Europe: avoid Iberia

2012-04-06 Thread Philip Hands
to be a rip-off, so if you're tempted to use this group thingy please make sure you're not paying extra for the privilege. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow G

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Thinkpad TracPoint replacement rubber cap

2011-07-17 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:07:12 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-07-17 at 12:15pm, Philip Hands wrote: > > It would be very useful is someone could provide me with a new rubber > > bit to put on the TrackPoint on my X200 -- I know there were some > > spares that came wi

[Debconf-discuss] Thinkpad TracPoint replacement rubber cap

2011-07-17 Thread Philip Hands
tched enough so that it's now becoming almost completely useless. I'm very happy to pay in cash or beer for such an item :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslo

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Telephone number

2011-07-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:45:43 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Non-text part: multipart/mixed Non-text part: multipart/signed > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:01:21PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > I still have access to the DC7 number in Edinburgh (+44 (0)131516875), > > which we could als

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Telephone number

2011-07-12 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:40:33 +0200, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 23:38, Philip Hands wrote: > [...] > > I've not so far managed to find an easy way to get hold of an inbound > > B&H --> SIP service, but if anyone knows of such a thing we could do as

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Telephone number

2011-07-11 Thread Philip Hands
ting SIMs from a local mobile provider -- I suppose we could have one of them in a spare phone, and hand it round to whoever's on-call. Either way, as you say Steve, we need to get this sorted out before people start leaving home. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf11-localteam] [Debconf-team] Ho Ho Ho

2011-06-09 Thread Philip Hands
nk into our sip system? Just a thought -- no implied criticism even if that isn't possible (which I would imagine it isn't). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Ons

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Going by car -- anyone going with me?

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:25:08 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: ... > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Arrivals > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Arrivals > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Arrivals#Banja_Luka_by_car > > Not sure what difference you saw between those two UR

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Going by car -- anyone going with me?

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
that others do the same, to this section: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Travel-Arriving#By_car so that you can all accumulate information that others will be able to find when they're making their own plans. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf11-localteam] Important news regarding travel to Banja Luka

2011-05-26 Thread Philip Hands
uessing that it should also be possible to make it zoomable more easily with OSM than with the other map, as all the zoom levels have been rendered already for you, which might be useful if zooming is possible with the site, since it's very crowded with POIs at the moment. Cheers, Phi

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Gmapsupp.img (Was: Important news regarding travel to Banja Luka)

2011-05-26 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:18:40 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > I've now fixed the things mentioned above, > > Great! Many thanks. > > Any hint where to download a useful OSM gmapsupp.img file for this &

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf11-localteam] Important news regarding travel to Banja Luka

2011-05-26 Thread Philip Hands
or are part of it, or not - they should probably be mapped anyway. Also, the oddly shaped building to the east of Banski Dvor that I just traced may need to be given a name, or tagged with its purpose. If the reason this has not been done already is because people were too timid, get hold of me on IRC

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf11-localteam] Important news regarding travel to Banja Luka

2011-05-25 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Darjan, On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:53:35 +0200, Darjan Prtic wrote: > @Dejan > Great work. Looks really nice atm. > > @Philip Hands > Localteam members from Banjaluka mentioned something about having map from > local tourist office with much more details and markings.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Important news regarding travel to Banja Luka

2011-05-25 Thread Philip Hands
ourse, since OSM is about as good as the map you're using, this should not arise, but what of the POIs?) Having said all that, as I've also said before: Good Effort :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://w

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] T-Shirt decision!

2011-05-25 Thread Philip Hands
rom the left, might work even better. The problem will be finding t-shirt colours that contrast enough with the print colours, and don't clash, since we cannot swap out the colours without messing up the flag colours in the swirl. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]ht

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Zagreb <--> Banja Luka

2011-05-17 Thread Philip Hands
ence. Note, I'm not expecting _you_ to do anything more than you're already doing. You're already spreading enthusiasm. Just take advantage of it when it's standing in front of you, and tell people to do simple things NOW. Good luck :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Zagreb <--> Banja Luka

2011-05-16 Thread Philip Hands
a instead of Zagreb. Ah, OK -- Just in case you'd not noticed, Adira Air have fairly cheap flights from there (althogh I'm guessing you'd miss a connection, and have to overnight) https://www.adria.si/en/booking.cp2 I only mention it because you were on about car hire. Cheers,

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Zagreb <--> Banja Luka

2011-05-16 Thread Philip Hands
11/Travel-Arriving page -- if on the other hand you lose the will to live (as I did) and realise that the information that you needed to decide that searching for alternatives was hopeless is either missing or hidden on the wiki page, perhaps you can improve on what's there so that those who com

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Zagreb <--> Banja Luka

2011-05-16 Thread Philip Hands
times, since it's going to be chaos at busy times, and someone's bound to screw up and delete half of it while trying to sort it into chronological order. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.h

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Zagreb <--> Banja Luka

2011-05-05 Thread Philip Hands
ine, and partly via bablefish. I would do all these edits myself, except that I'm still not sure that I've got all this right, so a local should fact-check, and whoever is editing things just now probably has better ideas than me about how it should look in the end. I hope that help

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debian-uk] Debconf return train booking via Zagreb and Munich

2011-05-02 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:21:51 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Philip Hands writes ("Re: [Debian-uk] Debconf return train booking via Zagreb > and Munich"): > > BTW were you relying on having a BahnCard for that price at all? > > (I was just wondering whether it's wo

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debian-uk] Debconf return train booking via Zagreb and Munich

2011-05-01 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 1 May 2011 00:55:57 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Philip Hands writes ("Re: [Debian-uk] Debconf return train booking via Zagreb > and Munich"): > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:14:55 +0100, Ian Jackson > > wrote: > > > For Joachim Breitner, Philip Han

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debian-uk] Debconf return train booking via Zagreb and Munich

2011-04-30 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Ian, On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:14:55 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: ... > I currently intend to book: > > For Joachim Breitner, Philip Hands, and myself: > Sunday 31st July > Zagreb - Munich > dep 2115, arr 0615 Monday > One 3-person sleeper berth BTW Any

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Trains from Debconf to Munich, Koeln, Paris, London, Cambridge

2011-04-26 Thread Philip Hands
ginning of DebCamp by train? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND pgpCnURZByrDF.pgp

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Ordering Debian Tartan Products

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:09:03 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 01:06:44PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On 08/07/2010 12:00 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > > > I should have got round to this before people started leaving DebConf, > > > but in

[Debconf-discuss] Ordering Debian Tartan Products

2010-08-07 Thread Philip Hands
ck me down and we'll make some more in the next month once I know numbers. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South

Re: [Debconf-discuss] spare gsm phone

2010-07-27 Thread Philip Hands
6) really are saved on my laptop. If you want me, bother me about it tomorrow, and I'll check the name thing, and then you can have the phone permanently. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.d

Re: [Debconf-discuss] volunteers wanted for setting up the WLAN

2009-07-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > (If someone else starts before the 18th that would obviously help, though for > those two days I assume us to be fine with 2 or 3 APs just set up > $somewhere.) I'm arriving early on the 15th, will be bringing walki-talkies (which

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-27 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:11:54PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Sami Liedes wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:43:53AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Perhaps it would be good enough to have the public > > > checksum-checking part of the keysigning party very early on in

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:45:29PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: ... > I was thinking about accepting only keys that don't suffer from the > recently discovered weaknesses. > > What people think about that? I think that's a good idea, given that people can sign with their old keys -- ther

[Debconf-discuss] VoIP @ DC8

2008-08-09 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, If you want to know about the VoIP setup at DC8, look here: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/VoIP The short version is that we have a local VoIP PBX that can make calls to many of the world's landlines free of charge, and that the rest of the call charges are small enough so that I d

[Debconf-discuss] FOR SALE: Ticket from Stansted --> Edinburgh 8 June

2007-06-05 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, In a moment of genius, Gunde, my GF, booked her flight to EDI for the wrong weekend (she's _supposed_ to be coming for the weekend 15th-17th) That being the case, we have a spare ticket: Friday 8th June dep. STN 21:20 arr. EDI 22:3

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Room allocation for DebConf7

2007-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ana, > Please state clearly: > * Who you would like to share the room with. I'm pretty easy as to who to share with -- It might well be easier for the UK crew to be together, in which case put me in with Sledge, otherwise, I get on well with p2

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for keys for keysigning in Edinburgh during DebConf7

2007-05-23 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier wrote: ... > As a tentative help to Manoj's concern (getting the list of such > untrustable people), I add my own little brick by suggesting to use > the output of "gpg --list-sigs 0xC0143D2D" as a start. As far as I > remember, proba

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for keys for keysigning in Edinburgh during DebConf7

2007-05-09 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moray Allan wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >> The big problem people have with the enormous keysigning parties from a >> trust point of view is that they tend to be tiring and often a bit >> hurried. This tends to reduce

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for keys for keysigning in Edinburgh during DebConf7

2007-05-09 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Ask someone how the last big keysigning party (debconf6) was > subverted. It was not subverted IMO. Madduck played a little game, and some people decided to go with the herd and accept his ID. It would have been

[Debconf-discuss] Debian Tartan: Last call before we weave

2007-03-21 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, Sorry if you're fed up with this already, but I'd rather bore a few people than have someone miss out, since a) we have a deadline to meet for DebConf7, and b) there's a 300.00 GBP weaving set-up fee that people will have to pay if they were

[Debconf-discuss] Re: Debian Tartan for Debconf7 ... pricing update :-(

2007-03-14 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems that I got the pricing wrong, since I was looking at the standard off-the-shelf prices, and specially woven cloth costs a bit more than that. For more details, check the blog: http://blog.hands.com/debian/debconf/tartan where I will track

[Debconf-discuss] Re: Debian Tartan for Debconf7 ... progress

2007-03-13 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:23:46PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote: >> So, if you're thinking that you might be interested in having one of these, >> you need to check your bank balance, and get back to

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Debian Tartan for Debconf7

2007-03-01 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wookey wrote: > On 2007-02-23 19:04 +0000, Philip Hands wrote: >> They're not cheap, so I'd imagine that just put most of you off. I'll >> personally be going for the proper 8yard option, and to have them woven as >

[Debconf-discuss] Re: Debian Tartan for Debconf7 ... progress

2007-03-01 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Hands wrote: [...] > My initial attempt at a design (which I'm told by the designer needs to > change because I used odd thread counts, and they need to be even) is here: > > http://hands.com/~phil/debconf/debian-tartan1.png

[Debconf-discuss] Debian Tartan for Debconf7

2007-02-23 Thread Philip Hands
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, I'm currently in discussion with a tartan designer to come up with a design for a Debian Tartan in time for kilts to be made for people that would like them for Debconf7 The timing is going to be tight, in that we need to get the beginning