[Debconf-team] Teams: let's hear your budget needs for DC15

2015-02-05 Thread martin f krafft
Dear teams, and I guess specifically you leaders… We are now approaching the time when the budget for DC15 needs to be prepared and approved. Therefore, it would be really useful if you could spend a bit of time thinking about what you'll need, so that we can take that into account. We're fully a

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread micah anderson
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > On Thu 2015-02-05 03:13:46 -0500, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: >>> While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the >>> vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to >>> skip meat

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-02-05 13:47:14 -0500, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I fail to see why you think that the current proposed wording of "no > dietary restrictions" implies that every meal will have meat. I think this because i've seen it happen very often. Many conference meals i've been at include explicit

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 05/02/15 18:49, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I think this is right(er), although still pointless IMO. I do not > believe (most) people expect to eat meat at every meal. I think it > would be easier to agree with our caterer to provide meat for > approximately half of the days. I don't think it'd be see

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#776982: Bug#776982: Request for summit.debconf.org pseudo-package

2015-02-05 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 07:49:32PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > >> > I suggest debconf-sum...@lists.debian.org. > > > > Not a slightly broader debconf-infra@l.d.o ? > > I pondered that as well. But what if bursaries, front desk, e

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#776982: Bug#776982: Request for summit.debconf.org pseudo-package

2015-02-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Hartmann [2015-02-05 19:49 +0100]: > > Not a slightly broader debconf-infra@l.d.o ? > > I pondered that as well. But what if bursaries, front desk, etc want > to talk about summit specifically? OTOH, what if we use something else > in a few years? Then debconf-infra will be

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 07:27:30PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Hi everybody > El 05/02/15 a las 17:25, Daniel Kahn Gillmor escribió: > > I would change the perspective: "tell cooks the things they can add to > the menu". > What about this proposal? > > Diet: > - Not applicable >

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#776982: Bug#776982: Request for summit.debconf.org pseudo-package

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: >> > I suggest debconf-sum...@lists.debian.org. > > Not a slightly broader debconf-infra@l.d.o ? I pondered that as well. But what if bursaries, front desk, etc want to talk about summit specifically? OTOH, what if we use something else

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Kahn Gillmor dijo [Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:25:37AM -0500]: > >> While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the > >> vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to > >> skip meat one day, I really don't agree with your proposal. > > Can you think of a

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > On Thu 2015-02-05 03:13:46 -0500, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: >>> While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the >>> vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to >>> skip meat

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hi everybody El 05/02/15 a las 17:25, Daniel Kahn Gillmor escribió: > > So i'm amending my earlier proposal to this: > > Dietary restrictions: > - Not applicable > - No dietary restrictions <> > - Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian (dairy and eggs OK) > - Vegan (strict vegetarian)

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#776982: Bug#776982: Request for summit.debconf.org pseudo-package

2015-02-05 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:01:09AM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I think the best would be to create a new list for this on > > lists.debian.org. We want to move all the debconf lists to the Debian > > list infrastructure anyway. > Ye

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-02-05 03:13:46 -0500, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the >> vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to >> skip meat one day, I really don't agree with

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#776982: Bug#776982: Request for summit.debconf.org pseudo-package

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I think the best would be to create a new list for this on > lists.debian.org. We want to move all the debconf lists to the Debian > list infrastructure anyway. Yes. > I suggest debconf-sum...@lists.debian.org. Fine by me. I would pre

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#776982: Bug#776982: Request for summit.debconf.org pseudo-package

2015-02-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015, Richard Hartmann wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> > 1) name of the psuedopackage >> > >> > Presumably, that's "summit.debconf.org" in this case. >> >> Correct. >> >> > 2) a short description of what the pseudopackage

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Lacto-ovo-vegetarian is by definition a dietary restriction, no matter > how you frame it. I agree. "No restriction" means that catering can use any reasonably common ingredients. Personally, I do not think that this means there _needs_ to

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote: >> [X] Subscribe to announcement list <> Please make this mandatory. Add "We are committed to your privacy and will not spam you. Yet, we want to make sure that we can reach you in case anything really important happens." or similar.

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 05:59:03PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Could frame this differently? The normal framing (above) often ends up > with an assumption that everyone must eat meat, with only a limited > set-aside for vegetarians. This results in overconsumption of meat: it > force

[Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 04/02/15 22:59, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> Could frame this differently? The normal framing (above) often ends up >> with an assumption that everyone must eat meat, with only a limited >> set-aside for vegetarians. This results in overconsu