Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams

2016-12-23 Thread Paul Wise
[I'm not subscribed, please CC me if you would like a reply] Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Clearly you didn't see this famous Terri Gilliam movie called, > precisely, "Brazil", right? You have to hand in form 104-B3 to get the > visa requirements information. I haven't see that movie, no. Perhaps we coul

[Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams

2016-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
Both: Which location do you consider more important for the future of Debian and why? Have you investigated any options for the day trip? Have any of the local sponsorship companies been contacted? Curitiba: The link to the official listing of visa requirements for entering Brasil is giving a

Re: [Debconf-team] article for mybroadband.co.za and for bits.debian.org about DebConf16

2016-06-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/bits.git/tree/content/2016/debconf16-starts-mybroadband.md > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/bits.git/tree/content/2016/debconf16-schedule.md ... > About the article in bits, I can publ

[Debconf-team] SSL issue with wget/curl/evolution/openssl on summit.debconf.org

2016-02-10 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, There seems to be a configuration problem or other issue with the SSL on summit.debconf.org, none of wget, curl, evolution or openssl s_client can open the site, old/new Iceweasel profiles as well as Tor Browser can though. OpenSSL seems to think there is a self signed certificate in the c

Re: [Debconf-team] microblogs thanking sponsors

2015-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Donald Norwood wrote: > Why have the separate debconf account? It sounds like it will be > click-bait going from @debian to @debconf <-> identi.ca, et al. I assume you're talking about not linking to Twitter? I don't think we linked to Twitter from bits.d.o, blog

Re: [Debconf-team] microblogs thanking sponsors

2015-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > My proposal is in line with what we did last year (we thanked all the > sponsors in @deb...@identi.ca, and we made several bits.debian.org > articles for groups of sponsors). > > These are the first 4 sponsors thanks of DebConf15 (thanks

Re: [Debconf-team] microblogs thanking sponsors

2015-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Beginning on Monday around noon UTC, I'll post the corresponding > 'thanks' notes in @deb...@identi.ca (with the logos, as promised in > the sponsorship brochure). Can we do it like last time? The debconf account posts one item per spon

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

2015-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
m: Debian wiki work session > > (together with Paul Wise) > > > > Does anything speak against moving the "Debian wiki work session" > > one slot later, i.e. into the 18.00-19.00 slot? AFAICS the > > "Stockholm" roo

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf in the "help Debian" web page?

2015-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:29 +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > I'll make a proposal sending a bug/patch against www.debian.org pseudopackage. For the record I've just committed the following to paragraphs, if you have any suggestions on how to improve them, please commit or poke me. You can hel

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

2015-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > * The info about the platinum sponsors is taken from w.d.o/partners/. > If we decide to write a separate blog post, any other info is welcome > (some quote of the contact person in HP?) This information is quite a bit dated due to the r

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf in the "help Debian" web page?

2015-03-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 09:49 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Wise [2015-03-01 08:59 +0100]: > > I noticed that DebConf is not mentioned on the web page about how to > > help Debian. Could someone propose a sentence or two about helping > > Debian through D

[Debconf-team] DebConf in the "help Debian" web page?

2015-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I noticed that DebConf is not mentioned on the web page about how to help Debian. Could someone propose a sentence or two about helping Debian through DebConf, mini-DebConfs, booths, sprints and BSPs? https://www.debian.org/intro/help -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise si

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

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > I think it's "final" for us (DC15 team) now, we kindly ask for reviews > and corrections from English native speakers and the wise people of > publicity team. It looks good to me! The link to the DebConf14 final report is missing, I wo

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 wrap-up blog post

2014-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Asking for content review by way of a link to a viewvc URL of a wml page > full of markup and comments == fail > Point taken.. > Can someone please inline the content to be reviewed, here on the list? > Apologies for the HTML email but t

[Debconf-team] DebConf14 wrap-up blog post

2014-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, The Debian publicity team prepared a wrap-up DPN entry about DebConf14. We would like to publish it on the DebConf blog (Martin Krafft volunteered to do so) but would like some input from DebConf14 folks before doing so. Hopefully you are still subscribed to the list :) https://anonscm.de

Re: [Debconf-team] Volunteer to design DC14 thank you ad?

2014-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 11:05 -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > "Thank you to everyone who helped make DebConf14 a success! > > The Debian project would like to thank all the sponsors who helped us bring Can we s/sponsors/volunteers and sponsors/ ? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise si

Re: [Debconf-team] Volunteer to design DC14 thank you ad?

2014-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 00:41 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > Sounds like we are approaching consensus. If there are no further > changes I will forward this onto our contacts at our media sponsors > next week. (Perhaps as early as Monday.) Please speak up if you feel > it won't be ready on Monday. It

Re: [Debconf-team] Volunteer to design DC14 thank you ad?

2014-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 22:11 -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > Let's just leave it at "sponsors". That's what this ad is for. :) Makes sense, sorry for the confusion. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 + Debian 20th birthday event announcement

2013-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 08:25 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > We started drafting a such article on [2] Please s/until/by/ (I guess) on the article at [2], the sentence about registration is awkward English. > and would appreciate hints to ease the publication on the Debian > website and help

[Debconf-team] CERN & DebConf13?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
y application. > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > It would be an interesting day trip for DebConf13 to go CERN. It is > only an hour away by car and the collider is offline so maybe that > would be possible. > > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.de

Re: [Debconf-team] No announcement about DebConf DebianDay, yet?

2012-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > As far as I can see there hasn't been an official announcement about the > DebConf or DebianDay, yet.Could someone please take care about it? We now have a draft in the publicity SVN repo, based on the one that was sent out fo

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > If people are interested, I can research more details and present a > better report on the practicality of this scheme, and of course, to > help make it so next year. As someone who missed out on DebConf6 in Mexico due to travel sponsorship

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf sponsorship & Debian derivatives

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
Since the call for sponsorship was announced by the press team and the DebConf12 sponsorship page is up, I have sent out the mail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2012/03/msg6.html I'm hoping this results in some new sponsors, looking forward to seeing some logos on the site. --

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Debconf files missing

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Recently I was looking for more information on using Debian in > enterprise environment and while going through old DebConf pages I found > "Using Debian for Enterprise Infrastructure" from DebConf10 [0]. > However, the linked PDF file is unava

[Debconf-team] DebConf sponsorship & Debian derivatives

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hi DebConf team! According to the Debian derivatives census info[1], there are a number of derivatives that are either for-profit or financially backed by a government or corporate entity. I have been considering contacting these derivatives with the purpose of encouraging them to help sponsor Deb

Re: [Debconf-team] Getting DebConf attendees reimbursed quickly for travel costs

2011-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > ffis needs the paper version. IIRC most years my sponsorship has gone through SPI, are they the same? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@list

Re: [Debconf-team] Getting DebConf attendees reimbursed quickly for travel costs

2011-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > One of my goals to help DebConf attendees get reimbursed quickly for > their approved travel sponsorship costs.  There are two parts to this: > > - Getting reimbursement forms in from attendees quickly.  It is >  DebConf's job to do this qui

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf11: please add sponsorship logo in debian.org site

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
Having "I am going to DebConf11" would look at bit weird, how does a website go to a conference? ;) What about something like this for www.debian.org: DebConf11 Are you going? I put the DebConf11 at the top because this looks hard to fit: Are you going to DebConf11? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] DebConf videos on Youtube?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > I just checked and youtube didn't seem playable with the free gnash > player. You may see this as a way to promote Debian via youtube, but > I see it as a way to promote the non-free flash player :/ gnash from wheezy/sid works almost perfect

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Thanking our sponsors

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Pablo Duboue wrote: > A long while somebody in #debconf-team asked if we can have plain > t-shirts available for sale without sponsor logos. I share that wish. > That is of course a valid question and I would like to share my > feelings about it: it would be a v

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] About Day Trip

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Nico Golde wrote: > I'd just like to thank you for this wonderful daytrip, it > has been a pleasure! Thanks for organizing it! Agreed, the daytrip was awesome! -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise ___ Debconf

[Debconf-team] debconf funding article

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, It seems there is a lack of money for DebConf travel sponsorship this year. I thought it might be helpful for us to issue a press release about the relatively low amount of funding available for debconf this year. According to marga, there is currently zero funding for travel costs and 60K

[Debconf-team] webcast suggestions

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
Hias, A suggestion to the debconf video people: suggestion for next year, perhaps we could have an audio-only stream? (I don't seem to have enuf bw for the video) pabs3: Could you please mail it do debconf-team@lists.debconf.org so it wont' get lost in the nirvana of irc? . o O (Note to myself