Re: [Debconf-discuss] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread MJ Ray
Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 08:49:54PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > I don't think that's true. Particularly with modern computerised > > demand-based price-setting systems, the prices fluctuate over time. > > Earlier does not always mean cheaper. [...] > > Usually you can get an ap

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 22. August 2010, MJ Ray wrote: > I think it's unreasonable to expect debconf attendees to guess what a > good price is I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, if you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices. cheers,

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread MJ Ray
Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sonntag, 22. August 2010, MJ Ray wrote: > > I think it's unreasonable to expect debconf attendees to guess what a > > good price is > > I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, if > you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help lookin

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, if > you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices. Given that finding good flight prices is hard, would it be worthwhile to get a travel

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Wookey
+++ MJ Ray [2010-08-22 12:49 +0100]: > Also, we should not be assuming flights, particularly for debconf 11 > which is in Europe where land travel may work for some/many. Train > and coach tickets and car hire pricing works on different schedules. This is a good point. You can know approximate c

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread tony mancill
On 08/22/2010 11:34 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, >> if >> you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices. > > Given that finding good flig

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 22 August 2010 21:34, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, if >> you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices. > > Given that finding good flight p

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:26:43AM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Could we possibly ask our largest multinational corporate sponsors > whether it would be possible to (ab-)use their corporate travel agents > and their discounts to order tickets for Debconf centrally and thus > save money? It might

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:03:43PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > On 08/22/2010 11:34 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, > >> if > >> you get or apply for travel sponsor

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/19/2010 03:14 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > At least in theory a round robin dns name for all hkps enabled key > servers would be possible. You just need someone trusted by most users > to certify that your server is part of the pool. Most CAs (including > CA-Cert) won't issue more than one c

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/18/2010 05:13 PM, Luca Capello wrote: > With this mail, however, I would like to comment on using the HKPS > keyservers. [...] > 2) "keyserver hkps://keys.indymedia.org" does not work with the default > GnuPG in stable: [...] > The same in squeeze, but with a different error: [...] > It do

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-08-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2010-08-23 at 06:34 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, > > if > > you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices. > > Given that find