Re: [Debconf-team] debconf-announce duplicate emails

2016-07-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:36:40PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Daniel Pocock > > > Is there some way that some email addresses could have been added to > > the list more than once? E.g. has somebody done a bulk subscription > > of addresses that appear in DebConf registration forms withou

Re: [Debconf-team] Drinking water in HD

2015-07-17 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 03:47:35PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jonathan McDowell [2015-07-17 14:08 +0200]: > > You'll need to make it very clear that the water in the bathroom sinks > > is suitable for drinking; I've been plenty of places where it'

Re: [Debconf-team] Drinking water in HD

2015-07-17 Thread Jonathan McDowell
er in the tanks is basically > the same (at least quaility wise) I'd expect. You'll need to make it very clear that the water in the bathroom sinks is suitable for drinking; I've been plenty of places where it's not so would by default assume it wasn't. J. -- Revd Jo

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Prices and deals for non-sponsored attendees

2015-01-18 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 09:41:30PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Richard Hartmann > [2015-01-18 21:31 +0100]: > > Swag is fine, but I think a coloured badge is overdoing things and > > will hurt the togetherness during DebConf. > > How so? Now not only do those of us who accept the

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-06-03 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:13:14AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:52:39PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: > > Personally, I preferred the original Portland proposal of trying a > > more interleaved schedule -- for me, having blocks of three days for > > talks / hacking and BOFs ju

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-06-03 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 08:14:01AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:07:22PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > I won't argue more on this, as it will start becoming a flamewar if we >

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-06-03 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:07:22PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I won't argue more on this, as it will start becoming a flamewar if we > don't control ourselves ;-) Whether or not we are having a DebCamp > should already be decided, and we should work based on that. So I > won't fan the bug/regressi

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:58:29PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 21/05/14 02:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > > FYI, we do have some data already about this, namely the arrival/departure > > dates that sponsored attendees have entered when registering. For each > > night of sponsored accommodation,

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:34:58PM -0700, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > It doesn't look like we yet have a shape for how the days should be laid > out over the conference. Steve put forward a strawman in > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20131001.175026.0a50b91b.en

Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-05-17 Thread Jonathan McDowell
[No need to CC me; I do read the debconf lists even if I'm a rare poster] On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:31:51PM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > > Fri, August 22: Arrival day. Dorm check in ava

[Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14

2014-05-17 Thread Jonathan McDowell
It doesn't look like we yet have a shape for how the days should be laid out over the conference. Steve put forward a strawman in http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20131001.175026.0a50b91b.en.html and AJ countered in: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20131002.135054.6fb41220.en.html

Re: [Debconf-team] bad bed comparison

2012-10-30 Thread Jonathan McDowell
not offended if it's decided that DebConf shouldn't cater to people like me, but it should be an informed decision taken by the organizers appreciating that a certain section of developers will decide not to turn up if things are too basic.) J. -- Revd Jonathan McDowell, ULC | What

Re: [Debconf-team] Let's decide DebConf11 final dates

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:25:31PM +0100, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > So as i see nobody has anything more to say on the this, which is not > what we expected, since we agreed at the last IRC meeting on > #debconf-team that there's going to be more discussion on this :S > > Because of this, and becau

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-13 Thread Jonathan McDowell
(No need to CC me, I read the list) On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:32:17PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/13/2010 05:24 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:19:28PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> On 07/12/2010 02:31 AM, Richard Darst wrote:

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-13 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:19:28PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/12/2010 02:31 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 09:55:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > >> To recap the proposals: > >> > >> (0 is the status quo) > >> > >> 0: 10:00-12:00, LUNCH, 14:00-16:

Re: [Debconf-team] WRL (debit card) phone chat

2010-07-09 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:52:07PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:19:31PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > The $500 is more appropriately not included in the cost evaluation; > > it's a one time fee that SPI would be paying from general funds (NOT > > Debian and also NOT

[Debconf-team] Orga meeting minutes

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan McDowell
* Every is sponsored for the conference dinner and assumed to be attending if they're in Penta. * Leaving for meal at 21:25 tonight from MT. * For those people looking for t-shirts who have lost theirs or weren't in Penta we'll start giving away those we still have that haven't been picked

Re: [Debconf-team] Attending DC9?

2009-07-20 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:12:35PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > > So, I would like to know as soon as possible if I can attend and I > > will pay for my stay. > > You definitly can attend, you can also join us for the meals but I > think you wil

Re: [Debconf-team] orga meeting notes

2009-07-17 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:27:48AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > 5. eva blanco will do nametags, she can contact Marga (in spanish) to > get the scripts from last year (to get the data out of penta into > pdfs..) the nametags should indicate (with icons) accomodation+food > status too (a sleeping

[Debconf-team] Final room allocation list

2009-07-10 Thread Jonathan McDowell
07-31 | 64. Christine Spang | 2009-07-23 | 2009-07-31 | Dafydd Harries | 2009-07-23 | 2009-07-31 | 65. Steve McIntyre | 2009-07-23 | 2009-07-31 | Jonathan McDowell| 2009-07-23 | 2009-

Re: [Debconf-team] Global team meeting today (Monday), 19 UTC

2009-07-06 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:09:53AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > This is the usual reminder about a global team meeting today, at the > usual time of 19UTC. > > However, also not that there is a local team meeting *this week* on > Wednesday (July 8), at 19 UTC > > Agenda from the wiki, as it is n

[Debconf-team] Changes to attendees room details

2009-06-21 Thread Jonathan McDowell
It's been pointed out to me on IRC that I should mention this here... If you're making any changes to an attendee that affects their room status (ie arrival/departure date, room status (if we're providing or not)) then please email rooms@ with details of the changes so I can ensure the room alloca

Re: [Debconf-team] Attendee payment issues

2009-06-21 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:06:54PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > I was working on sanitizing some data in Penta today. > > We have four fields related to attendee payments: > - has_to_pay > - amount_to_pay > - has_paid > - paid_amount > And thought that, lacking another plan, that these should be

Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta?question

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:29:09PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > (are you subscribed?) Yes, no need to cc me. > On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > > > Right, somebody answering the traditional ro...@debconf.org > > > > alias. > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta?question

2009-04-22 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:38:14PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Right, somebody answering the traditional ro...@debconf.org alias. > > Anybody up for this job? > > At the moment mails to that address go to /dev/null? I got vaguely involved wi

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship levels

2007-02-09 Thread Jonathan McDowell
[There's no need to CC me, I'm on the list.] On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:47:44PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:34:27PM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:55:26PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > I honestly think

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship levels

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:55:26PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > I honestly think it's a big mistake not to go with sponsorship levels, > as was "decided" (*) in the sponsorship team meeting: > > 1. I believe, that we get more money from sponsors, if they have an > incentive to spend more money to