On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 03:32:11PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> I'd like comments from past fundraising teams:
I think that it's fairly clear that more (specific) stories from past
fundraising teams will help us here a lot. Since most of the
contacting has been by new people, it makes sense tha
Pablo Duboue dijo [Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:49:03AM -0400]:
> > (yes this
> > includes about $20k from Debian),
>
> aside from the 70k we already got from the past DebConf. That speaks of a
> DebConf that is spending itself outside of reasonable bounds.
Although this is completely true...
> > w
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
wrote:
> Hi debconf people--
>
> This is a reminder that the dc10 talks team is meeting today on IRC (and
> local folks in person as well) at 23:00 UTC (7pm NYC time).
>
> We'll meet on #debconf-team -- if it is too noisy there or we're
> distu
Andreas Tille dijo [Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:27:26PM +0200]:
> Hint: As a scheduler in two previous DebConfs I like to stress this
> point of Holger especially because I'm guilty for violating this rule.
> It should be clear to the person who is doing this job that it will
> be under pressure of con
On Monday, May 31, 2010, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > - Edit the current reconfirmation email to sai
> >
> > - We can't promise you sponsorship yet
> > - Please fill in travel -> debian work so that we can review stuff
> > - Reco
micah anderson dijo [Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:25:31PM -0400]:
> > 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
micah dijo [Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:33:59PM -0400]:
> (...)
> 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 like right now it is
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:27:29PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> With some help from the internet (micah, pablo), I produced
> http://whiteboard.debian.net/aab913.wb
> which can be sent out soon. I also have a list of people to be
> changed. There are 19 or so people who requested accommodatio
Ana Guerrero dijo [Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:24:10AM +0200]:
> * Cutting in sponsored food, this can be done in several ways:
> - Do not sponsor breakfast (we did this in México and worked well)
Agree - After all, breakfast is the lowest attended meal of all. And
is for most cultures the lightest,
Richard Darst dijo [Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400]:
> [...large ugh...]
>
> - We reword the reconfirmation emails to say "accommodation
> sponsorship decisions forthcoming". This is highly non-ideal, but
> maybe necessary to be honest.
>
> By SOME_DATE that is real soon now, if our fu
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> - Edit the current reconfirmation email to sai
> - We can't promise you sponsorship yet
> - Please fill in travel -> debian work so that we can review stuff
> - Reconfirm if you can, please fill in all your data anyway.
> - Yo
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So, we need to send reconfirmation emails. We also need to ask them
> to enter in their plans before we can review them, and we need to
> review people before we can promise sponsorship. We need to promise
> sponsorship bef
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:40:19PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created this page last night
> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/SponsorshipReview
> to use for drafting plans for a sponsorship review. So far that is
> just my work, so other people should update it to make it a)
Some questions for past sponsorship teams:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
>
> > Things aren't as bad as we originally were thinking last night, but we
> > are not in the clear yet. We are currently p
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:40:19PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I created this page last night
> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/SponsorshipReview
>to use for drafting plans for a sponsorship review. So far that is
>just my work, so other people should update it to make it a) agreea
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:35:15PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> I have added a second proporsal about the DebCamp plan that I think is a bit
> more clear. More feedback welcome.
> We can update the criteria as we go for the list of people.
+1, but i'll leave it up to the people doing the reviewi
Hi,
So, we need to send reconfirmation emails. We also need to ask them
to enter in their plans before we can review them, and we need to
review people before we can promise sponsorship. We need to promise
sponsorship before some people can reconfirm.
So, here's what I say we do:
- Edit the cu
Hi,
It is good to get things moving fast :)
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:40:19PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> I created this page last night
> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/SponsorshipReview
> to use for drafting plans for a sponsorship review. So far that is
> just my work, so other
Hi,
I created this page last night
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/SponsorshipReview
to use for drafting plans for a sponsorship review. So far that is
just my work, so other people should update it to make it a) agreeable
to the global team b) not be so poorly written.
Here is a propos
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:14:12PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/registration-data.txt
> > we have 234 people requesting accommodation sponsorship. Expecting 76
> > of them to n
May have something to do with people that are paying by the day?
-jeremy
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:14, Ana Guerrero wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
>> http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/registration-data.txt
>> we have 234 people request
Hi Richard,
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/registration-data.txt
> we have 234 people requesting accommodation sponsorship. Expecting 76
> of them to not reconfirm is... quite a lot.
What it is exactly the relation between "Pa
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:10:41AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > They are actually worse than we thought last night, not better:
>
> All great points. Some countervailing good news: as people fail to reconfirm
> by
> June 10, we
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:10:41AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > They are actually worse than we thought last night, not better:
>
> All great points. Some countervailing good news: as people fail to reconfirm
> by
> June 10, we
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