Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > Before this thread happened, I had no idea who this person is. I > actually still don't (I will google around after writing this > email)but Holger's forward of the conditions to have him as a > speaker just made my mind : I think that this has

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Adnan Hodzic (ad...@foolcontrol.org): > Yea, Mitnick would be from separate funds, I'm not even sure they > would sponsor it, but I guess I could work on this idea if we all > agree it's "smart" to have him. But his thread showed that this is very unlikely. Let me express my opinion here

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> _If_ the Bosnian gov't wants to fly somebody in (given Holger's mail, > I am basically sure it will not be Mitnick) and give a talk during > DebianDay or something, it should be made with separate funds. I > oppose using DebConf money for bringing in a Debian-unrelated keynote > speaker. Yea, Mi

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Adnan Hodzic dijo [Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:40:29PM +0100]: > Hey, Hai! > As we discussed on our last meeting, I mentioned inviting certain > people to participate on DebConf11, have a lecture or whatever. All of > this is to "exploit" whole event so we could get more interest and > basically intr

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011, Michael Banck wrote: > In general, I think the keynote approach we explored last year was quite > successful, +1 > If we don't find anybody around locally (and I am quite certain we > would), we can still look for keynote speakers on a global level. +1 also with

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-03 Thread Pablo Duboue
-1 for Mitnick but I'm interested in the reasoning behind your choice. If we build the profile of the person you want to bring we can discuss it further, although I feel the talk and somewhat the person has to be Debian-related. I got a few sample points of very strong negative feedback in DC10 f

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-03 Thread Adnan Hodzic
@Gent, Thank you for that information. @Michael, I was planning to have a lot of local speakers, we just don't have any names in particular. I was planning to more done between us, since I think local team members should research topic, get involved and then lecture certain ideas, basically pro

Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:40:29PM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > As we discussed on our last meeting, I mentioned inviting certain > people to participate on DebConf11, have a lecture or whatever. All of > this is to "exploit" whole event so we could get more interest and > basically introduce

[Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick

2011-01-03 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Hey, As we discussed on our last meeting, I mentioned inviting certain people to participate on DebConf11, have a lecture or whatever. All of this is to "exploit" whole event so we could get more interest and basically introduce ~60million users to this Debian. Also we discussed that this would be