Re: [Debconf-team] Content team: Our current status, next steps

2017-07-18 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 07:48:44AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > I really don't get this. We have a talks team, which decides about > talks and workshops and all that. And then we have self-scheduling > where talks and workshops which werent accepted by the content team > get self scheduled?!?

Re: [Debconf-team] Banners

2016-07-21 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Martin, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 04:14:31PM -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Is there a final number of how many people attended DebConf? We had 282 registered attendees and an uncounted number of day visitors during the open festival, so we estimate around 300 attendees overall. Also, thanks

Re: [Debconf-team] DC17 July meeting

2016-07-20 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 11:21:15AM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > You can find the proposed agenda here: > https://cryptpad.fr/p/#JVllyL3qWwDR9mDQmfmNCN9n One thing that Gregor Hermann mentioned to me on the way back from DebConf, which I think could be useful at this point of still

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf16

2016-07-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:57:38AM +0200, Tammy Manning wrote: > Is there anything we need to do post-debConf? Apart from the final report? While I think the final report musn't be rushed right now post-DebConf, I believe it would be beneficial to complete the credits section as much as possible r

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf16

2016-07-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:57:38AM +0200, Tammy Manning wrote: > Is there anything we need to do post-debConf? Apart from the final report? The website should be locked-down post-DebConf, it sounds like DebConf is still ongoing there with future and present tense prevailant. I've added some T

Re: [Debconf-team] Ad-Hoc sessions

2016-07-02 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 04:13:09PM -0400, Allison Randal wrote: > Yes, they can suggest a time slot in the notes, and I'll only email to > confirm it's scheduled, or to resolve conflicts if multiple people > request the same time slot. They can even ping me on IRC to make sure > they're first

Re: [Debconf-team] Ad-Hoc sessions

2016-07-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:15:27AM -0400, Allison Randal wrote: > On 07/01/2016 11:09 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a plan for ad-hoc sessions already? If not, we should start > > thinking about it. > > > > I'd propose we allow them

[Debconf-team] Ad-Hoc sessions

2016-07-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, is there a plan for ad-hoc sessions already? If not, we should start thinking about it. I'd propose we allow them from Monday on, in BoF room 1 and 2, unless there will be more BoF rooms possibly be added later on (maybe if there is a lot of demand?) I also suggest we go with Flipcharts (or

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Logos for approval

2016-06-23 Thread Michael Banck
t get this to the T'shirt >people today. > >Is it important - the order? If so, could you please make a list for me? > >Regards >Tammy > > > >On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 09:34:23AM

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Logos for approval

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 09:34:23AM +0200, Tammy Manning wrote: > Please see the Logo's attached for the T shirts. > This is the final Layout to go onto the T's. I guess I'm too late, but I noticed that the sponsors are arranged in alphabetical order, whereas we've been arranging them (both on

Re: [Debconf-team] Banners

2016-06-15 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 09:57:53PM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Tammy (2016.05.30_21:44:21_+0200) > > 3) How many Podiums are there, for us to add banners? > > 3 Talk rooms with video coverage. The last years we had the DebConf logo + Platinum sponsor logo on the speaker podium(?): htt

Re: [Debconf-team] timing for sessions

2016-05-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 07:43:47PM -0400, Allison Randal wrote: > We currently have 51 proposals: > > 11 Talks (20 min) > 17 Talks (45 min) That does not look like it's too many, so I suggest to extend the CfP for another two weeks (even though I know that is not very popular), sending out a

[Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I mentioned it on IRC yesterday, but so it doesn't get lost before we open up registration: I think it would be really nice if we could let attendees optionally add an organization or company in an additional field as part of personal details, which would also go on the conference badge. Obv

Re: [Debconf-team] (Draft) blog post thanking first group of sponsors

2016-03-05 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:01:55PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > I've committed an initial draft for a blog post in bits.debian.org thanking > the first DebConf16 group of sponsors: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/bits.git/tree/content/2016/dc16-welcome-its-first-sponsors.md

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks" (was: talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit)

2016-02-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 01:46:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > martin f krafft dijo [Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:04:35PM +1100]: > > > I'd appreciate if we were able to add tracks to our current setup. > > > OTOH, we have sometimes defined tracks based on preexisting talks > > > rather than (or additio

Re: [Debconf-team] Was the DC15 final report cancelled?

2016-02-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > > I've took the printable version [1], fixed it up very slightly (see > > attached diff), and produced this PDF which we could put up on an &

Re: [Debconf-team] Was the DC15 final report cancelled?

2016-02-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:44:07AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Brian Gupta [2016-02-09 00:33 +1300]: > > I can't find it. > > Most of the final report content is done. Given the circumstances, > I've suggested an alternative approach on 2015-12-11 (sent to > dc-sponsors-team,

Re: [Debconf-team] Was the DC15 final report cancelled?

2016-02-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 06:33:04AM -0500, Brian Gupta wrote: > I can't find it. No, it's still work-in-progress. Michael ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit

2016-02-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 12:43:19PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Besides that, I agree with the simplification. Explicit URLs can be > part of the description, I just checked, you can generate clickable links in the description via Markdown, like [I'm an inline-style link](https://www.debian.org)

Re: [Debconf-team] talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit

2016-02-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 11:58:09AM +1100, martin f krafft wrote: > > The list of evnt types were: Ad-Hoc, BoF, Plenary (admin-only?), Social, > > Special event (admin-only?), Talk, Workshop > > > > The list of durations were: 20min/45min/other > > I think we should merge the two. There won't be 2

[Debconf-team] talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit

2016-02-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I had a look at wafertest's talk submission page right now, it's at https://wafertest.debconf.org/talks/new/ but you need to create a client certificate at https://sso.debian.org/spkac/ For the benefit of people who don't have time to set it up, here are the current fields in wafertest for D

Re: [Debconf-team] I get by with a little help from my friends

2016-01-20 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 09:15:03AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: > I'll start. I plan to work on: > - Maybe content if we need the help Honestly, I think we do. Rene stepped down shortly after Debconf15 (I am not sure this was communicated really - the chairs back then asked him to wait a bit

Re: [Debconf-team] About microblogging (was: RE: Meeting/Discussion chat tonight: Budget, Delegation ...?)

2015-11-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:50:28PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Laura Arjona Reina [2015-11-13 07:50 +1300]: > > * 3 times during the year, write a blog post > > where? On blog.dc.o/dcX? Yes, and it could potentially be amplified via bits.d.o, depending on frequency of other posts

Re: [Debconf-team] Tammy Manning sent you "Flyer"

2015-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Tammy, On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 04:23:51PM +, Tammy via Dropbox wrote: > Please see the Flyer: the Flyer PDF is 3 Options of layout, and the > Inkscape Options are added separately but are large files. Still to be > added are Options 2 and Options 3 in the Inkscape format. Wow, great! > S

Re: [Debconf-team] Getting the DC15 final report done (sprint: 2015-08-31 1900 UTC)

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, As a general remark, I think the debconf-data/reports git repo should be split up by year, cause it's really big. So best do that before lots of works starts (in case we use git at all). I wanted to quickly check out what the section layout was for the DC14 report, and it took ages to clone.

Re: [Debconf-team] [content] Adhoc sessions feedback

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:52:29PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > martin f krafft writes: > > Personally, I never used the online schedule much, as I'd learn of > > ad-hoc events from the mailing list and then just added them to my > > own calendar. > > fwiw, I relied a lot on the online schedule,

Re: [Debconf-team] Patch to DebConf orgateam structure

2015-08-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:26:23PM -0400, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > After the orga sprint and other conversations during DC15 we (the Chairs) have > adapted the orgateam structure to address people's requests and our own > perception of needs. We have shaped those changes together with the

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:38:34PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I would even consider *not* calling it pre-registration, as that is > too close to "registration". Maybe "enrollment" instead? Other conferences just require that you have an account to submit proposals or request sponsorship. Why

Re: [Debconf-team] [Coordination] Timeline changes proposal for DC16

2015-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
I don't always top-post, but when I do it's to say I agree 100%. Michael On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:48:14PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > We talked a bit about this during the DebConf Sprint that we had > during DebCamp and my feeling was that there was rough consensus about > it. I'm send

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-announce] Teckids, Food tickets, Daytrip, and Volunteers

2015-08-15 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Team, On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 03:06:07PM +0200, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 13:32:19 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > If you do not have "FOOD" on your badge, you are expected to purchase a > > food ticket from hostel reception for every m

Re: [Debconf-team] On-site orgateam meetings

2015-08-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 03:55:16AM -0400, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > Are we having regular meetings on-site? I think we should. We skipped today cause (i) we forgot to schedule one during yesterday's meeting and (ii) people thought there was not a lot to discuss. But in general, a daily m

[Debconf-team] (Monday) Morning Orga Team Meeting

2015-08-09 Thread Michael Banck
Heya, I think we should meetup after breakfast tomorrow to discuss the next steps, how about 10:00 in room Paris (outside Berlin/London)? We probably need to go shopping afterwards (power strips etc.), does anybody have a car to go to Ikea or so? See you then, Michael _

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf content re-published / Registration done

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 04:08:26PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > > I've added it now to the Open Weekend programme: > > > > http://debconf15.debconf.org/openweekend.xhtml > > > > I've assumed that kids only showing up for the weekend would still > > benefit - if that is not useful/accep

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf content re-published / Registration done

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Dominik, On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 18:32:39 schrieb Dominik George: > > Hi, > > > > Am Montag, 27. Juli 2015, 10:47:50 schrieb Richard Hartmann: > > > Will be done today. > > > > please give a short update on what is meant

Re: [Debconf-team] Quest on DebConf15

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 09:11:13AM +0200, Joerg Lorenz wrote: > my son and I wanted to attend the weekend session, but we were scared > away from the message that registration is closed. > > Now we're still hoping that the public session can be attended as > visitors. > > Can you tell us ho

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 schedule: one speaker in two parallel tracks

2015-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:22:30PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2015-07-27 15:26:47 -0400, Karsten Merker wrote: > > I have just looked through the current talk schedule for DC15 in > > summit and have stumbled over two cases where one speaker would > > have to hold two talks at

[Debconf-team] Additional DebConf15 Featured Speakers

2015-07-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, in addition to the already announce invited speakers (Bradley M. Kuhn, Werner Koch, Jake Appelbaum and Bdale Garbee), the content team announces some additional "featured speakers". Those will be added to http://debconf15.debconf.org/invited_speakers.xhtml and could/should also be included in

Re: [Debconf-team] 30 minute talks

2015-07-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:10:01PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I just want to highlight two benefits of talk slots under 30 minutes: > > a) easier for the content team to fit in everybody who contributes to Debian > > b) for those rooms the video team can't cover, DSLR video recording is >

Re: [Debconf-team] Preliminar schedule (everything can change)

2015-07-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 01:52:06PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > On the other hand, talks like the bits from the DPL, sandstorm, > systemd, reproducibl builds, Debian&FSF etc. do seem of interest to > the wider public. The "Bits from the DPL" talk did not have enough information to figure out th

Re: [Debconf-team] Conf dinner logistics challenge

2015-07-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:33:51PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > the number of people registered for conf dinner is now >+25% of the > initial plans, and we need to rethink to adjust for this new size. I know this might complicate planning ahead further, but I would assume that quite a few

Re: [Debconf-team] Preliminar schedule (everything can change)

2015-07-21 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Steve, On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:48:38PM +0200, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > >On 20/07/15 20:48, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > >> I'm attaching a DRAFT version of the schedule, comments are welcome, do not > >> consider this the fina

Re: [Debconf-team] Results from HD meeting

2015-07-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 06:59:20AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Michael Banck [2015-07-08 00:21 +0200]: > > > If we also want to offer plain coffee ("drip coffee") as the default > > > hot drink, then we have two choices: > > > > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Results from HD meeting

2015-07-07 Thread Michael Banck
Wow, thanks for the report, you covered a lot! One comment and one question: On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 11:05:51PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Coffee > == > There is a high-end coffee machine at the bistro (2.00–2.50 € for > a "speciality") and there are two medium-range coffee machines (not

Re: [Debconf-team] Choice of T-Shirt colors for DebConf15 Heidelberg

2015-06-29 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:24:43PM +0200, Daniel Lange wrote: > if you are joining us at DebConf15 in Heidelberg please voice your > preference for this year's T-Shirt colors via: > > https://dc.hosting.faster-it.de/881272 > > by Sunday, July 5th 2015 23:59 UTC IMO the video-team should dec

[Debconf-team] Debian booth at DebConf15 Open Weekend and its Merchandise

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, during Open Weekend of DebConf15 (15–16 August 2015), the Debian Project could have a booth, so this post is a call for organisers/volunteers to organise/staff such a booth on those two days. There will be a booth from the FSFE, plus several from our sponsors, so having a dedicated Debian boo

Re: [Debconf-team] LWN coverage of DebConf15

2015-06-15 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:07:04AM +, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 02/02/15 21:16, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > > All that said, someone will need to handle contacting them and asking > > this kind of questions. Tincho, are you going to keep being their > > contact or will someone else be

[Debconf-team] Final weekend (partly) outline

2015-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, we seem to have a confirmation that we can screen "Citizenfour". Also, we have a confirmation that Jacob Appelbaum will give a keynote/talk during the second half of DebConf. So in order to flesh out the second weekend outline, I propose the following: Friday afternoon or evening (before and

Re: [Debconf-team] Saver tickets within Germany available mid-May

2015-04-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:20:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Rene just pointed out that Deutsche Bahn opens reservations for > saver tickets 3 months before travel, so for people wanting to > arrive on 14 August, they can buy so-called saver tickets starting > 15 May. > > It might be an idea

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft for blogpost in bits.debian.org about HP and the other sponsors

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:34:12AM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > I'm writing a blogpost to thank our new sponsors of DebConf15. > Below you can find the text of the current status, but the > always-updated version is in the bits.debian.org git repo: > > https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval

2015-03-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:27:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >9. Upped video team budget to 10k. Did the video team submit a budget? As much as I value the recordings and everything the video team provides, I find that number rather quite high, considering we have at least one set of

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:47:02PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: > The budget spreadsheet is located at debconf-data/dc15/budget/budget.ods Two questions: 1. We discussed (and I think there was mostly consensus?) of inviting LWN to cover DebConf, is that somewhere in the budget? I could not

Re: [Debconf-team] RfC: current list of proposed topics/tracks

2015-03-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:34:33AM -0700, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Sun 2015-03-08 17:15:58 -0700, Michael Banck wrote: > > > We will send out the CfP on Tuesday, so I thought I'd run the current > > list of proposed topics/tracks by this list to get any final fe

[Debconf-team] RfC: current list of proposed topics/tracks

2015-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, We will send out the CfP on Tuesday, so I thought I'd run the current list of proposed topics/tracks by this list to get any final feedback. Please note the list is already quite long right now, so if we add more than 1-2 tracks we should probably remove some as well. Anyway, here goes: * D

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 10:06:23AM -0500, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:43:27PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > below are my own opinions, I am not speaking for the content team as a > > whole. > > > > On Tue, Mar

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, below are my own opinions, I am not speaking for the content team as a whole. On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Four bits of feedback: > > First, are we sure we want to invite talks and leave it up entirely > to the presenter, whether they can be broadcast by

Re: [Debconf-team] Citizen four screening

2015-02-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:36:49AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Jeremy Baron dijo [Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:16:30PM +]: > > On Feb 25, 2015 11:01 AM, "Gunnar Wolf" wrote: > > > I also suggest it to be held as an ad-hoc, off-the-schedule, > > > after-formal-activities thing — More or less as the

Re: [Debconf-team] Bitcoin payments for DebConf15

2015-02-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 02:02:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > This was also voted down, I think. You know, typical > Debian-we-need-to-design-it-perfectly-first-let's-not-make-a-move-before-that > style. You know, there's a difference between "design it perfectly" and "just let our users send

Re: [Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 meeting today at 20:00 UTC

2015-01-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:43:32PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Margarita Manterola [2015-01-05 22:19 > +0100]: > > The meeting was a bit chaotic as we had no real agenda, but > > I think it was productive. > > For a post-holiday meeting on the first Monday after an intensive > br

Re: [Debconf-team] Rough timeline idea for DC15 and the CfP

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:50:22PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez [2014-12-04 11:34 +0100]: > > IIRC, in summit you need to register for attending the conference > > before sending an event. So registration must definitively be open > > before the CFP. > > Well, st

Re: [Debconf-team] Rough timeline idea for DC15 and the CfP

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:49:51AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > - And by that time, we would like to have at least some events/talks > > announced for people to make an informed decision. > > I find this difficult, but we can try it. Usually people already knows > DebConf either

Re: [Debconf-team] Rough timeline idea for DC15 and the CfP

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:34:59AM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:05:11AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > - Which in turn means the CfP should be sent out in January till > > mid-February. [...] > Closing the CFP in mid-february w

[Debconf-team] Rough timeline idea for DC15 and the CfP

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
Heya, For DebConf15, we have been trying to push ahead the schedule a bit if possible. Our main aim with starting fundraising early was so that we could have a shot at confirming travel sponsorships with enough time for people to buy tickets on offer, rather than when prices are already rising.

Re: [Debconf-team] The *content* team is recruiting

2014-11-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:06:30AM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > The content team is recruiting! This is a good team for all those > people who are lurking and do not know how to start helping. > It's better if you have attended to Debconf already, but it is > not a hard condition. > > P

[Debconf-team] DC16 meeting (was: DC15 meeting tonight)

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 04:44:55PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: > We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) > > The current agenda is at: > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2014-11-24 I wonder whether there will be another DC16 meeting before the bid deadline

Re: [Debconf-team] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Proposal for bits.debian.org about sponsors for DC15

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:14:43PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > The updated proposal is in the same place: > > http://whiteboard.debian.net/bits_blogpost_sponsors_dc15_1.wb Uhm, this page is empty for me right now - either whiteboard.d.n is having problems, or somebody deleted it by ac

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for bits.debian.org about sponsors for DC15

2014-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Also, I believe you got the text from > https://www.debian.org/partners/index.en.html ? I had a look and it > seems to be a bit stale/outdated, so please wait till tomorrow or so > until I can check back with t

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for bits.debian.org about sponsors for DC15

2014-11-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, thanks for doing this! On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:15:38PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > http://whiteboard.debian.net/bits_blogpost_sponsors_dc15_1.wb > > there is a proposal for a blogpost in bits.debian.org about our first 6 > sponsors for DebConf15. about credativ, first up, the comp

Re: [Debconf-team] Slot length and regularity (was: Report from the talks team)

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 05:49:16PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Richard Hartmann [2014-09-22 17:23 > +0200]: > > Coordinate what, specifically? > > > > I naturally assumed we would have talk-meisters of some sort. > > _Someone_ needs to be responsible for the room, no? > > We did

Re: [Debconf-team] Length of morning sessions (was: General schedule proposal for dc15)

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:40:37PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > 10:00 - Keynote (no parallels) I think having a Keynote every day dilutes the idea of it being a Keynote. I'd say we could have a Keynote on each of the opening weekend days. So first off, I'd call this more generally a "plen

Re: [Debconf-team] Slot length and regularity (was: Report from the talks team)

2014-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:35:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > The benefit of having two 25 min. slots in one 1hr block over > accepting a 45 minute slot end after 30 minutes because the speaker > ran out of things to say Do we have some hard data or at least anecdotical evidence that this wa

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

2014-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:00:45PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > >> 8 hours during weekends > > I think we should not overload the weekend that much. > > I'm not sure why, so I'd like to hear more on

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

2014-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > > We don't really have much weekend time, especially considering tnat > > we are planning an opening weekend. The next Saturday is already the > > final confer

Re: [Debconf-team] Report from the talks team

2014-09-19 Thread Michael Banck
[adding the talks team (back) to the CC list] On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 01:49:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Anthony Towns [2014-09-19 13:37 +0200]: > > An alternative approach: just reject any talks with poor descriptions. > > Try to tell submitters early if their description isn

[Debconf-team] DebConf15 sponsorship kick-off IRC meeting Monday, September 14, 18:30 UTC, #debconf15-germany

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Banck
[ 2nd try because I typoed an address - sorry ] Hi everybody, in order to coordinate the fundraising for DebConf15, there will be a short (0:30) IRC meeting next Monday, just before the local team meeting. The meeting will be at 18:30 UTC (20:30 CEST). The current proposal is to have the meetin

Re: [Debconf-team] RFC on the DC15 sponsorship brochure

2014-09-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 05:35:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:13:59AM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Sebastian Harl wrote: > > > It was discussed to mention that job offerings should be limited to the > > > job wall (instead of, e

Re: [Debconf-team] RFC: (Hopefully) Last draft of the dc15 sponsorship brochure

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 02:06:40AM -0700, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I think the job fair may be a good way to get more sponsors on board, > and perhaps that we should limit our innovations until we see how that > goes.. Maybe we don't need more money than that? > > In my opinion, I would slash

Re: [Debconf-team] Splitting the DC reports repo?

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 06:01:51PM -0700, martin f krafft wrote: > The reports directory is 805MB. Unless there is a very good reason > why this is all in one Git repo, I will claim that I overlooked this > during the migration and would like to propose to split it *after* > the DC14 final report h

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 Bursaries Team BoF

2014-08-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 03:58:10PM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > OK. I don't see Saturday morning on the wiki, did I misunderstood your > previous email about having some sessions available? There will be ad-hoc sessions Saturday morning/evening (and maybe a few during th

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 Bursaries Team BoF

2014-08-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 01:45:50PM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > On 28/08/14 01:04, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:47:32PM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) > > wrote: > >> On 26/08/14 16:01, Michael Banck wrote: > >

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 Bursaries Team BoF

2014-08-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:47:32PM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > On 26/08/14 16:01, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:37:14PM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) > > wrote: > >> I registered the Ad-Hoc sessions for DC14 B

[Debconf-team] Saturday afternoon room scheduling issue

2014-08-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi talks team, right now, sessions are scheduled in room 338 on Saturday afternoon, however, that room is no longer available to use from 3PM on: azeem: room *338* is gone at 3pm; room 329 is gone at building close (10pm) So these three presentations should get moved to room 329: https

Re: [Debconf-team] adding an additonal BoF space

2014-08-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 01:08:33AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > it seems we are quickly running out of ad-hoc session spots and there > are a lot of interesting discussions being proposed still. What about Saturday morning? There is nothing scheduled so far, are those slots desi

[Debconf-team] adding an additonal BoF space

2014-08-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, it seems we are quickly running out of ad-hoc session spots and there are a lot of interesting discussions being proposed still. My proposal would be to designate the daily team stand-up meeting spot as an additional BoF "room", so sessions which do not need a projector (or streaming, or powe

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 Bursaries Team BoF

2014-08-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:37:14PM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > I registered the Ad-Hoc sessions for DC14 Bursaries BoF, > but I don't see any free spots anymore on the wiki, but > the page only goes up to Thursday, and it does seems we > have some free space on Friday/Sat

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Report prioritization

2014-08-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 02:57:10PM -0700, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > as you might have seen from the IRC chan, I have been bootstrapping the > DebConf14 final report. I _know_ it feels early to care about it for all > of us but trust me, it's so much harder after the conference is over. >

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget woes

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:04:08PM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 07:44:34AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Benjamin Kerensa [2014-08-17 07:42 +0200]: > > > We could also hire coffee and donuts for about $1500 voodoo could > > > serve everyone coffee and donu

Re: [Debconf-team] Final list of accepted talks

2014-07-20 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 08:45:08PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > Below is the list of accepted talks that will be scheduled in the next > days. Every talk has a slot of 45m except the "Live demos" event and the > "Looking back on a Debian Summer of Code" talk (it contains 4 presentations

Re: [Debconf-team] Planning the announcement of DC15's sponsorship drive

2014-06-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:32:53AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Richard Hartmann > wrote: > > we already talked about this within the DC15 team, but just to make > > sure that we are all on the same page: > > > > I think we should spam DPN, the -announces, redd

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: Debcon `15 in August `14?

2014-06-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 02:58:10PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:39:24PM +0200, Jens Erat wrote: > > Additionally to the wrong date, the location-specific mail address does not > > exist. > > Which location-specific mail adresss? You mean > debconf15-t...@lists.d

Re: [Debconf-team] PSU Network Requirements

2014-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 07:00:48AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > The portal requires redirection to a web page where you type in your > name, agree not to do bad things on their network, and then choose > whether you'd like the code via SMS or email. If you opt for email, > then it give you a

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

2014-05-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:02:58PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 21/05/14 02:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > > are coming as "volunteers". The format this year has been deliberately > > designed to improve upon the status quo, with the explicit understanding > > that people who are actually coming

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 15 Legal Entity

2014-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:38:24AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Richard Hartmann [2014-04-24 09:06 > +0200]: > > Do you need any final review or are we good to send the doc off? > > I think it's ready to go. I am just trying to remember what we > decided on the Debian Deutschland

Re: [Debconf-team] Updated budget for DC14

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:44:05PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I think the BBQ for the Debian Party at DC13 was quite nice, not the > > least cause people could mingle freely. Having sit everybody at a > > table means you can only talk to people next or opposite of you. > > Yes. Wh

Re: [Debconf-team] Updated budget for DC14

2014-03-29 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 07:18:04PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:17:41AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:45:10PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:35:59PM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: DebConf13 final report needed for sponsors

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:55:52PM +0100, Raphaël Walther wrote: > Well, I suggest we send the final version tomorrow Tuesday evening to > sponsors. This enable us to make FINAL proofreading. > > So we have ~27 hours left before we release the final report tomorrow > at 18 UTC Not sure wheth

[Debconf-team] [debconf15-germ...@lists.debconf.net: [Debconf15-germany] DebConf15 bid from Germany]

2013-12-31 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, forwarding this as the original mail appears to be still stuck in the moderation queue. Guten Rutsch, Michael - Forwarded message from DebConf15-Germany team - Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:58:07 +1300 From: DebConf15-Germany team To: DebConf Team List Subject: [Debconf15-germany]

Re: [Debconf-team] Daytrip information [550]

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:41:10PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Quoting DebConf Registration Team (2013-08-13 18:39:43) > >> You have selected the following DayTrip option and we have compiled > >> the relevant information for you: > >> > >> D1: Hiking fr

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 13: Call for Papers

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Debconf team, On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:30:41AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 07:42:54AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > This year, we will continue to organize some talks into thematic > > tracks. If you have a proposal for a DebConf track, such as &quo

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 13: Call for Papers

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 07:42:54AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Debian invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, > discussion sessions and tutorials for its DebConf13¹ conference which > will take place in Le Camp by Vaumarcus, Switzerland, in August. > > ¹ http://debconf13.debcon

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debian-portland-soc] [DC14] Portland team: historical cost comparison

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On 03/19/2013 09:29 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Allison Randal dijo [Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:24:11PM -0700]: > >> > >> Aiming for an approximate average on flight price, figuring US/Canada > >> flights could be as low as $300, wh

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