Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> That's up to the talks team.  I don't see any strong reason to extend > it in the fact that we're extending the sponsored registration period. >  The talks team might prefer to get the ratings etc. done now, so that > as soon as sponsored registration closes we have their data ready to > help tra

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-07 Thread Moray Allan
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > One more thing, we have extended the date for sponsored registrations, > but does this mean that we have extended the date for talks submission > as well? That's up to the talks team. I don't see any strong reason to extend it in the fact tha

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Holger, I'm writing blog post as we speak. One more thing, we have extended the date for sponsored registrations, but does this mean that we have extended the date for talks submission as well? Adnan On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Samstag, 7. Mai 2011, Adnan

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 7. Mai 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > After all it has been said and done I'm safe to say that we're > extending the sponsored registration until 19th of this month. Yay. > Today or tomorrow I'll write a blog post that we are extending the > sponsored registration process and will w

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:08:31PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > > So no extensions then? > > I just want to know, so i can stop thinking about it further. > > further thinking about the "last mile problem" (aka busses) and this led me > to >

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi. Excerpts from Tiago Bortoletto Vaz's message of Qui Mai 05 13:50:30 -0300 2011: (...) > As I said before, I think we shouldn't extend the deadline for travel > sponsorship. Only food/accom, since these will be paid direclty by the govt > so will not impact in DC11 budgeting. Agreed. Greeting

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Moray Allan
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > there will be extra work, namely two rounds for deciding who gets sponsorship. > (the alternative is to do one round and those who'll get travelsponsorship > will knowit later and have to pay higher prices.) It's travel sponsorship this is r

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Moray Allan
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > I don't have past dates here, but my feeling is we're late this year, which > would be one more reason to not extend travel sponsorship request dates. Yes -- and we were *hoping* to improve on past years by making firm promises about t

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Thu, 05 May 2011 12:35:14 -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote > Hi. > > Excerpts from Holger Levsen's message of Qui Mai 05 12:08:31 -0300 2011: > (...) > > P.S.: for decision finding I'd suggest ACK mails or mails stating why this is > > a bad idea. > > I think extending the deadline fo

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi. Excerpts from Holger Levsen's message of Qui Mai 05 12:08:31 -0300 2011: (...) > P.S.: for decision finding I'd suggest ACK mails or mails stating why this is > a bad idea. I think extending the deadline for everything is a good idea. The most important argument I see against it is delaying

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > So no extensions then? > I just want to know, so i can stop thinking about it further. further thinking about the "last mile problem" (aka busses) and this led me to wonder whether it would be sensible to extend cfp, travel + food+accom sponso

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > So no extensions then? I dunno. I just pointed out what problems there are with the proposal. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debc

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Velimir Iveljic
So no extensions then? I just want to know, so i can stop thinking about it further. Velimir On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, Velimir Iveljic wrote: >> I don't see any problems in moving the date like Adnan said. >> We have the means, an

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > I don't see any problems in moving the date like Adnan said. > We have the means, and there's no extra work needed to be done. Why > would it be a bad idea? there will be extra work, namely two rounds for deciding who gets sponsorship. (th

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-05 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Hi, I don't see any problems in moving the date like Adnan said. We have the means, and there's no extra work needed to be done. Why would it be a bad idea? We can be more rigorous, as Adnan said, when deciding on who gets sponsored and who doesn't in order not to have too many "non-Debian-contrib

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-04 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi Ana, On Wed, 4 May 2011 14:43:00 +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:49:29AM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > > > Topic of extending the registration period was brought up on our last > > meeting. I was the one who brought it up as in following couple of > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-04 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:49:29AM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Hey everybody, > > Topic of extending the registration period was brought up on our last > meeting. I was the one who brought it up as in following couple of > weeks I'll be attending some very important conference in the region > and

Re: [Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-04 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi, On Wed, 4 May 2011 06:49:29 +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote > Hey everybody, > > Topic of extending the registration period was brought up on our last > meeting. I was the one who brought it up as in following couple of > weeks I'll be attending some very important conference in the region > and th

[Debconf-team] Extending registration period

2011-05-03 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Hey everybody, Topic of extending the registration period was brought up on our last meeting. I was the one who brought it up as in following couple of weeks I'll be attending some very important conference in the region and thus when I present the people with idea of DebConf11 in Bosnia I want to