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
Giacomo Catenazzi writes:
> On 08.05.2013 08:08, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was stumbling upon this pretty cool news
>>
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-714958/
>>
>> this morning. Hey, if I look at the stars I can see Debian for some
>> mom
Gunnar Wolf writes:
> USA, the eternal debate
> ===
> There is also this tradition we have of not repeating countries. Of
> course, being the USA such a large country, and being its Debian
> population so large, I would not give much weight to the argument, but
> I have seen i
ss and
> distribute tasks to make DebConf13 a success infrastructure-wise.
>
> Please add yourself to the doodle:
> http://doodle.com/t944qhuim6dmkafz
I've added dkg, and Andrew McMillan to the CC list, we've all been part
of debconf tech setup/networking in the past.
mica
David Bremner writes:
> micah anderson writes:
>
>> I want to emphasis a bit what Moray wrote above. If travel sponsorship
>> is eliminated because other things are too expensive, that results in a
>> Debconf where only people who can afford to go can go. It raises the
offload the
additional expenses onto individuals attending debconf, instead reduce
the overall cost of Debconf.
micah
0. if I were to continue with idioms, I would call this the elephant in
the room
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, even with recycling,
plastic waste is a huge problem[0] on a global scale.
If its true that the work involved in maintaining the 'ceramic' water
filters will be more than volunteer labor is going to be able to handle,
then I would suggest that the larger tank option be pursued.
micah
ps -
basic
> input didn't get money...
I think that its obvious that asking the people who thought that the
process was fine to come up with something that solves problems that
they do not see isn't how its going to work. Of course you fail to see
how to do it better, it seems fine to you.
having an organization that has no
board members doing the above, but there *is* something socially wrong
about such a process.
micah
0. To be clear to people who are not familar: an IRS audit is a
review/examination of an organization's accounts and financial
information to ensure information
and the response when this has
been pointed out has been unsatisfactory prevaracations, justifications
and failures to see clear inconsistant problems in the process, not to
mention rectify them.
micah
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blems from the flawed system were reported to us, we
reconsidered based on the information provided and the decision
changed. It seems like this year that changes to things were also
permitted after the deadline as well, so also please refrain from
pointing out again that the deadline had passed.
micah
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I believe any of those would be considered either as either vested
interest, nepotism, malfeasance, or at minimum a strong reason for
excusing oneself for conflict of interest out of concern over causing
tax problems for the organization.
If we want to keep debconf and debian out of tax
haps you have already had
a number of meetings and discussions with SARNET, I just am not aware of
them. But, I confess I am concerned as prior Debconfs have had these
things already resolved by this point!
Good luck! If we cant get the internet resolved, we will need to h
en español:
Hola Horacio,
Por favor enviar un email a registrat...@debconf.org con la información
por de ambos:
Nombre completo, número de pasaporte y su dirección actual (donde vive).
Vamos a ofrecer a los dos con una carta de invitación.
Muchas gracias!
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:06:47 +0200,
sible the issuance of the letter, we'll appreciate the answer mail
to send data from the applicants.
It seems as if they require an invitation letter, can someone provide
that?
thanks,
micah
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that would
involve a certain amount of risk in repayment. I think that risk is
worth it. If the money doesn't come through from commits for that year
to cover the advancement, then it would need to be repayed before a
second advancement was done.
micah
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:34:47 -0600, Eduardo Rosales
wrote:
> We are proud to announce the DebConf12 bid for Managua, Nicaragua. Managua
> is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality
> by the same name. It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population
> and
nd deposited into our primary DC10 bank
> account on Tuesday, which due to the Independence Day holiday weekend is the
> next work day for banks here.
I'm just curious, did this money ever get deposited? Its quite a bit of
money to lose track of and I've been going through debconf r
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:01:13 -0400, Brian Gupta
wrote:
> Upon further reflection, a cab can do the trick. It just needs a higher
> level of coordination.
It would be really great if I could take care of this soon. What would
work for you?
m
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:39:29 -0400, Brian Gupta
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:06 PM, micah anderson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:43:59 -0400, Brian Gupta
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Adnan Hodzic
> > wrote:
> > >
> Mailing something like that will most likely cost more than the
> > > hardware itself (plus the customs headache, etc.)
> >
> > This is true ...
> >
>
> Guys, I'm sure Micah doesn't want to keep all the stuff in his home till the
> next DebConf, so
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:17:57 +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
> >> Address?
> >
> > Adnan?
>
> Send it to the NGO address:
Am I only sending the buffalos? If I am going to be mailing something
there, I'd like to make sure there isn't going to be other things that
should also be sent there that could g
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:35:10 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Micah,
>
> On Samstag, 25. September 2010, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > * 10 Buffalos
>
> please send them to DebConf11 - they should be useful for DebConf11-20 or
> so :-)
Address?
Also, my own opinion of
gs
** 2xPlastic enclosures
* 3 Cordless phones + power supplies
* 3 Sipura ATAs + power supplies
* 10 Buffalos
* Bag of power supplies (buffalos)
* 46 orange tote bags
* Shitload of purple shirts
* not so much of a shitload of black shirts
micah
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On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:51:53 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Samstag, 31. Juli 2010, Gabriella Coleman wrote:
> > Should we print like 60 scheudles of the talks for tomorrow? Most Debian
> > Day attendees will not have thier computers so this might be a good idea.
>
> yeah :)
thanks to jonah,
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:05:48 +, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:51:25AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > * do we want to include the spoken languages? in the samples I've included
> > them, but I wonder if it has any practical use.
> > * same question for the "Orga/Attendee/
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:38:11 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
wrote:
> I got the following message about penta from a friend. Could someone
> with write access to the web site please look at fixing them?
>
> (note that this user does not have the SPI root CA in their certificate
> list)
these and ot
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:06:51 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
wrote:
> My traceroute [v0.73]
>
> umbra (0.0.0.0)
> Thu Jul 15 15:50:28 2010
> Host Loss% Snt
> Last Avg Best Wr
tions and propose some
> alternate time for the photo shoot, but i don't think anyone has
> followed up on that.
I think what he meant was he was going to scout out these things during
Debconf itself, as he is not local. The timing should just be not during
any other scheduled event
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:08:05 -0300, Rogério Theodoro de Brito
wrote:
> I have two questions:
>
> 1 - Could I suggest a confirmation flag to appear on pentabarf to make
> it clear to the user that one or another of his requests are being
> dealt with?
This wont happen for Debconf 10 (unless you
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:32:06 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010, micah anderson wrote:
> > Its going to have to, and we have already spent far too much time in the
> > last months discussing this and scheduling things to re-open it
> > now. This w
that the break down has been the video team caving to
these last minute requests, rather than sticking to a "NO". So, you are
going to have to change that, not all of debconf.
micah
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ved on June 1st asking you to re-confirm. It was a
big email, and we believe that many people managed to miss this
information. If you go back and re-read it, you should find out that
indeed it is true, and i've confirmed that you do have this sponsorship.
micah
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:14:49 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> The nametags I'd need to buy and I'd need to plan doing so, my hours until
> takeoff have become very limited... so please tell me until this time
> tomorrow, if & how many.
Raphael has been making a design for these, presumably the na
Hi everyone,
A number of people (4 so far) have asked for a local address for
shipping. I've been replying to them offline and providing my address
and it has worked out so far. I'm happy to continue to do this, if you
want to redirect anyone asking to me for the details.
However, when it comes
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:28:50 +, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:12:37AM -0400, Gabriella Coleman wrote:
> > 1. Do we need a link for directions? Or is the map of Columbia
> > University campus enough? I suspect the latter
>
> We could probably do with someone artistic re-doing
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:19:30 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:59:23 -0400, Gabriella Coleman wrote:
>
> > > > FWIW I agree with that and I believe queue B people should be mailed
> > I also agree to queue A to 100% and queue B to 70% now.
> >
> > Me 2. The sooner we get this
0% now.
> PS as a virtual attachment, this mail contains a 99% ice cream for micah
>(heat madness is spreading from NYC to Paris, apparently ...)
delicious, its vegan!
micah
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one wanting more than 5 shirts, it seems reasonable to discount
the price to $10.
micah
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:21:40 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Dienstag, 6. Juli 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Given the current budget considerations and after reading Zack's mail
> > which well summarizes my own views on how seriously the money flow
> > should be taken, I would suggest *not*
Are we not allowed to clean up after ourselves? I can
understand if we failed to do a good enough job, someone would have to
clean whatever is left over, but if we can do our best and save 95% of
the cleaning costs, I think we can find people willing
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:23:21 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hmm.. maybe shift three hours, and pay the extra $275 x 2 = $550. That
> > way for $550 we could have the DebConf hacklab be open 24 hours and,
> > and DebCamp be open from 8am-11pm.
This seems like a reasonable compromise, and would b
x would be somewhere between 70% or 100%)
Ideal world I would say lets 100% Queue B, but I dont know how to make
this decision. Its a hard one, and we've been putting it off. We need to
make this decision now.
micah
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involve
global people in a way that isn't alienating for in-person people
though.
micah
note - i'm not saying this to advocate that we have local meetings, i'm
just wanting to clarify that our f2f has not been as you indicate (with
one exception that was rectified later).
pgpIz
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:29:15 -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:17:48PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote:
>
> > I know these global team meetings are customary but if we are having
> > them out of habit and they don't serve any real purpose we can as well
> > skip them for the time
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:58:04 -0400, Brian Gupta
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:56 AM, micah anderson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:13:33 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:24:05AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> >
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:13:33 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:24:05AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:55:25PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > The current plan is:
> > >
> > > - Use Mudd as the hacklabs until XX:XX in the
6/18/2010 meeting with c...@columbia CS conference room
attending: richard, clint, quy, hitae, daisy, eric, paul, shlomo, micah
CRF was very accomodating and helpful, we had a very productive
meeting covering many issues, and also had a tour of their machine
room and 'coffee room'. Th
s are there; or the moral is that you need to bulldoze a
McDonalds before you come and then you wont have any problem.
micah
0. he gained international notoriety when he bulldozed a mcdonalds in
France to protest the WTO ruling that allowed the U.S. to impose
punitive high tariffs on Roquefort chees
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:10:36 -0400, micah wrote:
> I'm also curious to know a few things from past debconfs, such as
> previous network bandwidth usage patterns, expected network services,
> lessons learned from past, other considerations we need to take into
> account.
Als
- transp. proxy
- other: dhcp, outgoing smtp, others?
* what can we do to help
- how best to interface
- best process for dealing with problems (on both sides)
micah
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:23:54 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
wrote:
> PS evening/social events have not been scheduled yet at all. Micah,
> were you following up on those? Could you give a reportback when you
> get a chance?
I am still following-up on these, will report back when I have
e
whatever they come up with, but some ideas might be:
Subject: [outreach] Contacting NYLUG
Subject: [food] quote from Horace Greeley
Subject: [scheduling] oops, I wrote a scheduling app using clojure
Subject: [networking] how do you make cables?
just an idea to try and keep us a little sane
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:15:28 -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >
> > was that talk accepted?
>
> It is marked as 'undecided candidate', so I guess that means 'no'
I think it means yes based on what we have recently discussed.
m
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encouraged late talk submissions; b. giving a talk at an
event, but then not even getting food might be mean.
What do other talks-team people think? Should we ask for reconsideration
of these, or is it fine that they don't get it?
micah
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s is hard for some attendees (made worse by the
> fact that we delayed so long in doing this).
Can you clarify a little bit the above? Did people respond saying that
this was unfair, or that they were counting on it, or they've already
booked things and this would cause them undue h
ght about including a reason why it was
rejected and then decided that just opens up all kinds of problems. I
also looked at other examples of rejection letters and found that often
that either the reasons were not given, or that very detailed feedback
was given. I dont think we can do
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:27:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
wrote:
> Hi Micah--
>
> Thanks, i think your mail describes what happened and why we're in a
> tough/confused state right now.
>
> I also like your proposal, though i have two outstanding questions about
> i
e third that
we had such a hard time deciding on last night, this email would be no
different than #1
4. we schedule Schipiro (414) along with the two main rooms
Doing this will result in plenty of room for last-minute space for
talks. Determining what to do with talks that were actually rej
appen!
* there are people who really shouldn't have sponsorship, especially
during debcamp. i think we are converging on how to deal with that
now, so I wont dwell on it
* I think Jimmy's suggestion that we collect the criteria now and then
only apply them after june 10th reconfirm
en included in the budget. The
food budget only included two meals. I think having some money for
coffee and something light would be a good idea, but that doesn't save
us money, it actually increases it.
micah
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se so s/he can then have a chance
to comment on them after. This detaches from immediate discussion with
people, which is an unfortunate loss, but would make the local meeting
less weird (we sat together in person, on laptops on irc, which is
weird).
Or we could put azeem on a speaker phone o
in. I meant both the
Community Outreach track, but also more broadly talks that are more
FLOSS than Debian specific. To be clear, I wasn't proposing a FLOSS
track, although I wouldn't be opposed to one either.
micah
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;s also the "all events" page; the URL he gave is an admin view,
> > as is everything in /penta/pentabarf. Here you go:
> >
> > https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc10/all_events
>
> Micah was asking for people to contribute to them as well, aiui. But,
> w
he idea for consideration. It wasn't a request, I just know
that I've heard from other Debconf attendees in the past that they liked
the shirt, but would not wear it because of the logos (and I have found
myself agreeing with that sentiment).
micah
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e disheartened to see talks that are
not so intensely related (such as the FLOSS track) getting very negative
scores and comments about how unrelated to Debian they are. If the talks
are relevant, the person submitting them are reasonably well-known, then
it seems like a good idea to mix it up a littl
coordination), zack (for RCBC prizes - enquired); adnan (for bosnia -
enquired).
Swing over to penta and have a look and make some changes:
Opening plenary: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/644
Closing plenary: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/645
micah
--
hope we have at least a third room to schedule all the "last
>> minute"
>> track. Also note I have not considered here the Debian Open Day (I have not
>> idea
>> about its status).
>
> i don't know about the Debian Open Day situation either. An
thing but myself. But, I'm most
> likely a very irrelevant corner case in that regard. I just
> parenthetically mention this to say that I am personally not invested in
> either side of the logo-ed vs logo-less DebConf shirt debate.)
I wouldn't put yourself so far in the corne
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:47 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi Micah,
>
> Thanks for sending such a thoughtful (if long) email. My thoughts are below.
Yeah, sorry it was long, I was wanting to make sure I detailed the
concern while still remaining civil and not accusing anyone of any
n more fun if Pablo can also make it. It
would be past our personal deadlines for selection, but if people are
willing to wait, we could do it near our return. Otherwise we can click
here.
micah
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t; volunteers for the bursary team.
[snip]
> Again I reiterate that I didn't intend to leave out anyone who had
> already volunteered nor did I intend to usurp team leadership from
> anyone who desired to to serve in that role. I'd be happy to add Micah
> (and anyone else still in
On Tue, 4 May 2010 17:12:15 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> On May 4, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
> > wrote:
> >> On 05/03/2010 05:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>> The key idea of the retreat is for local peo
issue
involved in making this happen for the numbers of people were are
talking about, and I'm concerned that we do not miss out on this
opportunity.
Can we get a status update of where things are at with this?
micah
0. I'm intentionally keeping the details of the daytrip vague, a
turned into
May 15th, but there may be other adjustments here that I am not aware
of.
micah
0.
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Meetings#Local_Team.2C_Feb_14th.2C_2010
1. id:20100319032939.ga8...@amellus.com
2. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Teams
3.
http://wiki.debconf.o
les is 500meters from the venue rooms, River is a bit further
(700m), but the difference is basically within 150m. River is a block
further north than McBain, and then more to the west.
As pointed out on IRC, the distances are probably stepping into
bikeshedding they are so trivial.
micah
signatu
dly for Sledge's vacation :(
Doesn't Debconf count as vacation?
Its a hard one for me... for some reason I like the idea of having one
building, instead of two, and River seemed further away to me than the
distances really are. However, I think that Ruggles being so close
essentially canc
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