On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:27:37AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:49:03AM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote:
> That is great effort indeed, but as I pointed out to Clint earlier today, many
> of those are cold-calls without any reason to believe that the target compa
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Pablo Duboue dijo [Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:49:03AM -0400]:
> > * The cost to the project of $tourist is just (some) money but the cost of
> > missing new blood is huge, so better err on the side of losing money rather
> > than mind-sh
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 06:35:04PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > - Edit the current reconfirmation email to sai
> > - We can't promise you sponsorship yet
> > - Please fill in travel -> debian work so that we can review stuff
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:00:13PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> Jimmy, I have sent you privately the information Richard was talking about,
> we are talking here about more than a 10 % of sponsored people. It is not
> reasonable.
In my mail I tried to be clear that I am still ok with asking people
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:31:33PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:20:35AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > Ana has also been helping out some today, and identified about 27 of
> > ~200 sponsored attendees whom she could find no sign of free software
> > community related
Hi!
I was also asked to add some opinion to this topic, as former DC orga.
I think Pablo made some good point and I agree completely with what
Marga said. I want to stress that asking people to work in exchange of
the sponsorship was a great idea, as it offered a good way to the
newcomers to know
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:20:35AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> Ana has also been helping out some today, and identified about 27 of
> ~200 sponsored attendees whom she could find no sign of free software
> community related work on the internet - and yes, this is being very
> broad. She also con
Hi,
On Dienstag, 1. Juni 2010, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On IRC, Joerg Jaspert, Safir Secerovic, and Steve McIntyre all seemed to
> share my belief that we could raise sufficient funds over the upcoming two
> months with sufficient effort and that my proposal was reasonable.
I concur. And I have
A small reply to myself:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Margarita Manterola
wrote:
> Now, it looks like the amount of people in this situation in NYC is
> similar, only that the cost per person is almost double what we had
> over here (350 USD vs 650 USD), so I can understand that allowing 27
>
Hi!
So, I was asked to state my opinion on this matter, as a previous DC
Organizer and all.
In Argentina, we didn't have too many $tourists registering from
outside, due to the long distance flights and all. But to avoid
$tourists from .ar, what I did was review every non-maintainer from
.ar tha
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:27:37AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> reconfirms timely, shows up, optionally modified by the previous paragraph;
> (2)
> not requiring us to do a second email between now and the reconfirmation
> deadline, which would take massive mental energy away from things like
Hi Pablo,
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:49:03AM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote:
> I wholeheartedly agree with the above paragraph. But that still doesn't
> address at least 10-20 people I have peeked on the registration emails which
> are not involved in the project and are clearly taking advantage of o
Pablo Duboue dijo [Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:49:03AM -0400]:
> > (yes this
> > includes about $20k from Debian),
>
> aside from the 70k we already got from the past DebConf. That speaks of a
> DebConf that is spending itself outside of reasonable bounds.
Although this is completely true...
> > w
On Monday, May 31, 2010, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > - Edit the current reconfirmation email to sai
> >
> > - We can't promise you sponsorship yet
> > - Please fill in travel -> debian work so that we can review stuff
> > - Reco
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> - Edit the current reconfirmation email to sai
> - We can't promise you sponsorship yet
> - Please fill in travel -> debian work so that we can review stuff
> - Reconfirm if you can, please fill in all your data anyway.
> - Yo
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