Re: [Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:12:57PM -0400, micah anderson wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:23:41 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki > wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:01:26PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > > Opening

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:05:07PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: > > I remember Ana telling me on IRC something on the line "talks that > > will make nobody go to a competing talk in a parallel session". That's > > a very strong criteria w

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: > I remember Ana telling me on IRC something on the line "talks that > will make nobody go to a competing talk in a parallel session". That's > a very strong criteria which /melikes. Does such a talk exist? _

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> What do you think the criteria should be?  Or would you prefer no >> plenaries at all? > > I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet sure what the > point of the

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Pablo Duboue
I can put the ad into some sort of web form in http://debconf10.debconf.org/debianday.xhtml if that can buy us more time to flesh in more details. P. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 13:26, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:16:23PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> putting debianday.org into my web browser currently directs me to >> >>  http://debconf8.debconf.org/debianday.xhtml >> >> It appears to do this with an HTTP 302 redirect

Re: [Debconf-team] TALKS: advocating broader relevance

2010-05-28 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:50:27 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Your e-mail referred a couple times to a "FLOSS track", but i think > there is no current FLOSS track, according to [0]. Do you mean the > Community Outreach track? Or do you mean more broadly talks that are > more about FLOSS t

Re: [Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:23:41 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:01:26PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > Opening plenary: > > > > https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/644 Closi

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Thanking our sponsors

2010-05-28 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 28 May 2010 14:21:04 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:19:16AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Pablo Duboue dijo [Sat, May 22, 2010 at 02:31:30PM -0400]: > > > A long while somebody in #debconf-team asked if we can have plain > > > t-shirts available for sale without s

Re: [Debconf-team] TALKS: advocating broader relevance

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi micah-- Thanks for bringing this up! On 05/28/2010 01:33 PM, micah wrote: > Personally, I think Debconf can both get a bit boring if the 'relevance' > is applied too strictly, and too de-focused if it is applied to > broadly. To make a great conference there should be a balance, and I > feel l

[Debconf-team] TALKS: advocating broader relevance

2010-05-28 Thread micah
Hi all, At our recent talks team meeting we discussed the talks rating criteria (Relevance, Actuality and Acceptance[0]), and issues that people had with them. I brought up the 'relevance' rating criteria as something that I had some issues with, and I promised at the meeting I would bring it up

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:16:23PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > putting debianday.org into my web browser currently directs me to > > http://debconf8.debconf.org/debianday.xhtml > > It appears to do this with an HTTP 302 redirect. > > This seems bad. At least, it will be bad when the Ju

[Debconf-team] reply to list only, please?

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
Can we reply to just the list here when we know someone is on it as is standard practice on other Debian lists? Thanks for your consideration. (and appologies if I've violated this previously myself. I'll try to do better.) -edrz ___ Debconf-team mailin

Re: [Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:01:26PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > Opening plenary: > > > https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/644 Closing > > > plenary: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/645 > > I

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:08:05PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 05/28/2010 12:20 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > > The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a > > magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and > > not only DebConf

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 01:13 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: >> On 05/28/2010 12:20 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> >>> The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a >>> magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and >>> not only DebConf Day 1?) > > I think w

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:20:18PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > For what I have understand the idea is having a "DebianDay" track in one of > the two talks room the 1st August, but we do not know what talks put there, > I see 3 options: One idea from last night: We have a connection (Jonah) with

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 12:20 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a > magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and > not only DebConf Day 1?) indeed, thanks or bringing this up, Ana. Is there a good link to pint

Re: [Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > Opening plenary: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/644 > > Closing plenary: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/645 > > I can't access them. I guess one needs talks or admin privs, to see > events

Re: [Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:49:16AM -0400, micah wrote: > > We've discussed having both an opening and closing plenary, to book-end > Debconf and provide general information; welcoming; reportbacks and > farewells. In an effort to make sure that these things didn't get lost, > and would get properl

[Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and not only DebConf Day 1?) Traditionally, the Debian Day has been about explaining Debian to interested people and in the local languages(s).

[Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread micah
We've discussed having both an opening and closing plenary, to book-end Debconf and provide general information; welcoming; reportbacks and farewells. In an effort to make sure that these things didn't get lost, and would get properly scheduled, I've submitted penta events for them. I put a rough

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:41:27AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Do you see any advantages to having plenaries? Any disadvantages? The only advantage I see for myself is the same as for any talk I would wish to attend if it does not conflict with any other talk I would also wish to attend.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Thanking our sponsors

2010-05-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:19:16AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Pablo Duboue dijo [Sat, May 22, 2010 at 02:31:30PM -0400]: > > A long while somebody in #debconf-team asked if we can have plain > > t-shirts available for sale without sponsor logos. > > > > That is of course a valid question and I wo