Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-28 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:06:45AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Possibly a proper wording would be "pre-scheduled/scheduled on > site"... Although that's also not precisely true. How about "prioritised / best-effort"? (s/ised/ized/ next year, or use "priority" instead both years.) - Jimmy Kaplowit

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009, Richard Darst wrote: > The > main/only benefits to being "Official" are pre-planned, advertised to > attendees slightly more, and videoed, right ? no. we will "video" everything in the two main rooms, and nothing in the bof rooms and nothing which isnt scheduled in

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-28 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:55:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > I'd say that Open Day selection people should also be able to mark > > things as "official", then. > > Since several DebConfs I wonder whether we should change this >

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi. On Samstag, 27. Juni 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Possibly a proper wording would be "pre-scheduled/scheduled on > > site"... Although that's also not precisely true. > IMHO (pre-)scheduled is not much better because we also schedule > these currently "unofficial" events. featured/non-featu

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:06:45AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Umh, I agree we should find a clearer wording - But I don't think it > means sponsored/not sponsored. Sore. I do not insist on the sponsoring wording it was just a quick shot I've got in my mind. If anybody finds a more apropriate wo

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:55:25AM +0200]: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > I'd say that Open Day selection people should also be able to mark > > things as "official", then. > > Since several DebConfs I wonder whether we should change this > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > spnsored / not sponsored > > to express what we *really* mean. It always confuses people what > > the distinction between official and unofficial means. > > +1 > > And I think we can+should still do this for DebConf9. If the t

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 27. Juni 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > Since several DebConfs I wonder whether we should change this > official / unofficial > branding into > spnsored / not sponsored > to express what we *really* mean. It always confuses people what > the distinction between official and unof

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > I'd say that Open Day selection people should also be able to mark > things as "official", then. Since several DebConfs I wonder whether we should change this official / unofficial branding into spnsored / not sponsored to ex

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > One possible solution is to have them all interruptranslated (i.e. the > speaker and the translator say a phrase at a time). We could, if the > facilities are OK for that, sit people in two different rooms, and > have a simultaneous translation

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christian Perrier dijo [Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:12:09AM +0200]: > We'll probably end up with a mix. What I would really strongly insist > on is for people who would give their talks in English and are native > speakers to make a great effort to be as intelligible as possible > (speak sloowly, a

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bdale Garbee (bd...@gag.com): > I personally think DebianDay is a great time for the program to be > single-tracked, avoiding parallel sessions. It would be good if at > least some of the talks are in whatever the native language is, but > talks of high quality from competent speakers may

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Bdale Garbee dijo [Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:46:40PM -0600]: > DebianDay talks should be more 'planned' and/or 'structured' than the > rest of Debconf needs to be. For Debconf, it's completely ok for there > to be talks on many different semi-random topics of interest to DDs > sprinkled throughout t

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:17 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:18:04PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > DebianDay talks should definitively be considered official. Of course, > > I agree here and wonder whether we should rerate these candidates > which might have been off the o

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:18:04PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > DebianDay talks should definitively be considered official. Of course, I agree here and wonder whether we should rerate these candidates which might have been off the official DebConf programm. Kind regards Andreas. -- htt

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Margarita Manterola (margamanter...@gmail.com): > Hi! > > I'm not in the talks committee, so I felt it was not my place to do > the actual selection, but I went through the talks list and selected > those that I thought were best suited for Open Day, here's a list with > event id and title

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Richard Darst dijo [Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:56:48PM -0400]: > I'd say that Open Day selection people should also be able to mark > things as "official", then. > > As a side note, I noticed how all of {"advertisement" via in published > proceedings/printed schedule, video recording, travel sponsors

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:41:55PM -0500]: > Agree - what should we use for this? The track? We currently have only > three listed talks on the DebianDay track, so it might be quite > doable. Now, I just checked and I don't seem to have access anymore to > the talk rating interface —

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Margarita Manterola dijo [Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:04:32PM -0300]: > The basic idea behind the Open DebConf Day was to select the talks > that would be interesting both to DDs and non-DDs, so that we could > invite Debian users, contributors or interested people to that day in > particular. > > For

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 2. Juni 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Open Day _IS_ DebConf proper. [emphasize.] > So, it's not grounds for exclusion. > However, if the talk requires the audience to know "insider" Debian > stuff, then it shouldn't be during Open Day. I dont think those three talks Luk

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Luk Claes wrote: >> 382 - QEMU for Debian Developers > > I thought Open Day was meant for a wider audience than DDs? I fear that > this one might be rather technical. Ok. >> 412 - Debian on Network Storage Devices and Other Devices > I think this one is rather te

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > I'd say that Open Day selection people should also be able to mark > things as "official", then. > > As a side note, I noticed how all of {"advertisement" via in published > proceedings/printed schedule, video recording, travel spons

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:08:09PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Apart from this, I've seen a number of "rejected" talks which were > > marked "DebConf Unofficial"... Why were they rejected? > > We were only marking as "acc

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:08:09PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Apart from this, I've seen a number of "rejected" talks which were > marked "DebConf Unofficial"... Why were they rejected? We were only marking as "accepted" those talks which deserved the official status of being in the prepl

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:24:07PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > 412 - Debian on Network Storage Devices and Other Devices > > I think this one is rather technical, it would be a shame if it was not > in DebConf proper IMHO. > > > 398 - Debian and the Openmoko FreeRunner: one year later > > I thi

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:08:09PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not in the talks committee, so I felt it was not my place to do > the actual selection, but I went through the talks list and selected > those that I thought were best suited for Open Day, here's a list with > event

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Luk Claes
Margarita Manterola wrote: > I'm not in the talks committee, so I felt it was not my place to do > the actual selection, but I went through the talks list and selected > those that I thought were best suited for Open Day, here's a list with > event id and title: I'm not even part of the Orga Team

[Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm not in the talks committee, so I felt it was not my place to do the actual selection, but I went through the talks list and selected those that I thought were best suited for Open Day, here's a list with event id and title: 382 - QEMU for Debian Developers 371 - immunity: securing untrust

[Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > Who else knows how Open Debian Day is being run / what else do we need > to do for it at this point ? The basic idea behind the Open DebConf Day was to select the talks that would be interesting both to DDs and non-DDs, so that we coul