Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf discussion: Venue bid process

2011-03-18 Thread Richard Darst
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 07:01:00PM +, Moray Allan wrote: > Here is a further draft of the decision process, again updated to take > into account people's comments. > > Those with little time should use their email client's search function > and start reading at the paragraph "For the decision

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:51:03PM +0100, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > Hi, > > We the local team (more precisely Adnan and me) were talking a lot > about the current dc11 organization process > and it has come to our attention that everyone is super busy right now > with everything > that's going on (

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > I think if you follow this strategy, everyone will be very happy.  Thoughts? Sounds good. I was about to reply along the same lines. :) -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:19:27AM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > A wiki page would be a good place to track the general issues raised. > > But you should not put people's personal data there, unless they > > specifically want to advertise their travel intentions. > > I do agree with this, is it t

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Ok, I just got a great suggestion, how about for start we have a wiki page with number of people from $countr-a, then the number of people from $country_b, $countr_c and so on? Adnan On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >> A wiki page would be a good place to track the general

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> A wiki page would be a good place to track the general issues raised. > But you should not put people's personal data there, unless they > specifically want to advertise their travel intentions. I do agree with this, is it too risky to have their names on wiki list? At this point, this would gen

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > I proposed for a wiki page to be made with list of names for people > who will have problems with their visas. Is anyone working on this > page so far? A wiki page would be a good place to track the general issues raised. But you should not

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Adnan Hodzic
I proposed for a wiki page to be made with list of names for people who will have problems with their visas. Is anyone working on this page so far? Adnan On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12423 March 1977, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > >> i've looked into this some more and

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12423 March 1977, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > i've looked into this some more and as i understand it, the only > problem here is that in order for them to get a visa (for 90 days) is > they have to travel far away! > When i say "only" i don't mean it's a small problem! > We will make some kind of

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 9. März 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > (I prefer leader@ for DPL-related stuff, but I do follow debconf-team.) oki :) > > Is it difficult to decide this within Debian? > > Also, does it have to become a "Debian trusted organisation" for > No, it is not difficult, but it's a s

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > No, I think we are all a bit lost in some areas. Some more, some less, also > depending on what. > > I think we could use more permant documents to track status of things. And one > document (probably on wiki.debconf.org, maybe just use > htt

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 18. März 2011, Holger Levsen wrote: > I would suggest to use files in svn for tracking other areas as well: > accomodation, food, cfp, ... budget too!! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mai

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 18. März 2011, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > Right now all of you guys (global team) are having a lot of things on > your mind, with the DC12 decision, > and i have noticed that on the meetings things get "pushed" to fast > and we usually say "we'll talk it over on the list", > but when

Re: [Debconf-team] DC10 final Report - first pdf for reviewing

2011-03-18 Thread Tássia Camões
credits for talks committee updated, thanks to Michael Bank. please check/fix the credits at http://whiteboard.debian.net/dc10credits.wb just one more thing, please review the talks and movies abstract, they were not proofread (tough they were mainly extracted from penta texts). enjoy it :) tass

[Debconf-team] DC10 final Report - first pdf for reviewing

2011-03-18 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi Debconf people, A first pdf version of the DC10 final report is available at: http://tiagovaz.org/archive/FinalReport-DC10-20110318.1.pdf We are aware of the following issues (so you don't need to report): * some pictures credits and captions missing * some end of paragraphs with ugly format

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Because as someone mentioned I would do this via the phone, and > someone didn't agree with the fact I'd make these requests for Debian > on behalf of DIVA. Right, so don't mention DIVA for now. You're raising money for DebConf, so why would

Re: [Debconf-team] svn repositories blog and reports moved

2011-03-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/17/2011 07:46 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > i just finished merging the blog and the reports svn into debconf-data > preserving their entire history. [...] > I set the old locations inaccessible, so noone can accidently commit or > work with them. Thanks, Joerg! Could you update http://www.

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Moray Allan wrote: > Why do you think that avoiding meetings would help make more > communication happen? I don't think avoiding meetings will help, but we will have more time to do things we need to do, and present them better on the meeting. Right now all of yo

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-18 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Moray Allan wrote: > We can agree the details of where the money should be paid to before > we need to receive the money, but usually companies take some time to > formally agree to sponsor, and some more time before they are actually > read to pay. In this case

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > Because of that, we propose that we pros pone the next global team > meeting, as well as the sponsorship team meeting for one week each: > > Global team meeting: 5th march > Sponsorship team meeting: 7th march Why do you think that avoidin

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Ups, i made a typo! It should be: Global team meeting: 5th April Sponsorship team meeting: 7th April Thank you Daniel for noticing :) Velimir On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > (this is off-list: you might want to make corrections on-list) > > On 03/18/2011 09:51 AM,

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > My exact question is that I wanted to start collecting money from > everybody, in name of Debian but calling from DIVA, apparently this > represents a problem. So instead of collecting "global" money I'll > start by collecting it on the region

[Debconf-team] DebConf11 meetings

2011-03-18 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Hi, We the local team (more precisely Adnan and me) were talking a lot about the current dc11 organization process and it has come to our attention that everyone is super busy right now with everything that's going on (DebConf12 decision, penta hacking, sponsorship issues, registration, etc.). Al

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-18 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> > Why would this other NGO not be in the same situation as DIVA? What other >> > NGO do you have in mind? >> Because other NGO's are in different countries? By other NGO's I had >> SPI and FFIS in my mind. > > Ah. How are we supposed to kn

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Hi, i've looked into this some more and as i understand it, the only problem here is that in order for them to get a visa (for 90 days) is they have to travel far away! When i say "only" i don't mean it's a small problem! We will make some kind of arrangement for them, to get the visa not having

Re: [Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hi > > lets see if you can fix this, at least for attendees of DC11: > > The regulations for a visa for Taiwanese people is quite offending and > entirely not helpful for DebConf... I guess all we can say is that we are sorry things are thi

Re: [Debconf-team] svn repositories blog and reports moved

2011-03-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 18. März 2011, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > i just finished merging the blog and the reports svn into debconf-data > preserving their entire history. whoohoo! Thanks a lot, also for the blog readme! cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[Debconf-team] Taiwanese attendee

2011-03-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi lets see if you can fix this, at least for attendees of DC11: The regulations for a visa for Taiwanese people is quite offending and entirely not helpful for DebConf... Let me cite their webpage: --88--- A decision passed by the Counci