Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread Nigel Kukard
On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 02:47:13 PM Michael Banck wrote: >Hi, > >I mentioned it on IRC yesterday, but so it doesn't get lost before we >open up registration: > >I think it would be really nice if we could let attendees optionally add >an organization or company in an additional field as part

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread Allison Randal
On 03/16/2016 11:36 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: Don't label it "organization" call it "badge line 2" or "your add here" So that people know they can put whatever text they want to show off on their badge. /me likes this idea very

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > Don't label it "organization" > call it "badge line 2" or "your add here" > > So that people know they can put whatever text they want to show off on > their badge. /me likes this idea very much. Please do that! -- cheers,

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Allison Randal [2016-03-16 17:06 +0100]: > If we're doing that, perhaps we should also provide a "badge line > 1" field? Also optional, and if they leave it blank we'll default > to their full name from the system. Some people prefer to have > their IRC nick big and bold, for example.

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread Bernelle Verster
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > On 03/16/2016 11:36 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: >> >>> Don't label it "organization" >>> call it "badge line 2" or "your add here" >>> >>> So that people know they ca

[Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I mentioned it on IRC yesterday, but so it doesn't get lost before we open up registration: I think it would be really nice if we could let attendees optionally add an organization or company in an additional field as part of personal details, which would also go on the conference badge. Obv

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Feature Request: Organization / Company Name field

2016-03-18 Thread Carl Karsten
Don't label it "organization" call it "badge line 2" or "your add here" So that people know they can put whatever text they want to show off on their badge. On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > I mentioned it on IRC yesterday, but so it doesn't get lost before we > op

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric Dantan Rzewnicki [2015-08-18 08:29 +0200]: > Towards the end of the sprint there was talk of a hacking session > and perhaps an ad-hoc event sometime this week. Has anything > further occurred or been scheduled? No, unfortunately not. I'd love to be shown wafer and attack a small

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-17 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 08:38:54AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Hello Eric, > > On 17 Aug 2015, at 06:25, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> The registration sprint video is up at > >> http://veyepar.dc15.debco

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-16 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 07:03:20AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Eric Dantan Rzewnicki [2015-08-17 06:25 +0200]: > > At the start of the video Martin points to the screen and mentions > > a titanpad. Can someone point me to it? > > https://titanpad.com/20150813-confmgmt > > Allison

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric Dantan Rzewnicki [2015-08-17 06:25 +0200]: > At the start of the video Martin points to the screen and mentions > a titanpad. Can someone point me to it? https://titanpad.com/20150813-confmgmt Allison wanted to move this to a wiki page today, but I am sure she'll add a pointer w

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-16 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi folks, > > The registration sprint video is up at > http://veyepar.dc15.debconf.org/static/veyepar/debian/debconf15/webm/DebConf_registration_system_sprint.webm > > I probably need to talk to Holger to be able to upload those v

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-14 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Wouter (2015.08.14_13:48:12_+0200) > I probably need to talk to Holger to be able to upload those videos to > video.debian.net, but for now you can access them directly from the > encoding server. I can do that. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 _

[Debconf-team] registration sprint video

2015-08-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi folks, The registration sprint video is up at http://veyepar.dc15.debconf.org/static/veyepar/debian/debconf15/webm/DebConf_registration_system_sprint.webm I probably need to talk to Holger to be able to upload those videos to video.debian.net, but for now you can access them directly from the

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2015-03-05 Thread Patty Langasek
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:35:05AM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Maybe we should send one. We will only get more questions... > Richard It's a good idea - we had a *lot* of questions about not getting a confirmation email last year. :/ > On Mar 4, 2015 8:07 AM, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" wrote:

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hartmann
Maybe we should send one. We will only get more questions... Richard Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity. On Mar 4, 2015 8:07 AM, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" wrote: > On 03/04/2015 06:47 AM, olivier sallou wrote: > > Hi, I have seen on debian-deve, today,l a mail about registration being > > open. I h

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2015-03-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 03/04/2015 06:47 AM, olivier sallou wrote: > Hi, I have seen on debian-deve, today,l a mail about registration being > open. I have already registered (one week ago) on web site. I had > confirmation on screen about my registration but I did not received any > confirmation email. > > So I wonde

[Debconf-team] Registration

2015-03-03 Thread olivier sallou
Hi, I have seen on debian-deve, today,l a mail about registration being open. I have already registered (one week ago) on web site. I had confirmation on screen about my registration but I did not received any confirmation email. So I wonder I my registration has been taken into account and if it

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Lacto-ovo-vegetarian is by definition a dietary restriction, no matter > how you frame it. I agree. "No restriction" means that catering can use any reasonably common ingredients. Personally, I do not think that this means there _needs_ to

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote: >> [X] Subscribe to announcement list <> Please make this mandatory. Add "We are committed to your privacy and will not spam you. Yet, we want to make sure that we can reach you in case anything really important happens." or similar.

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 05:59:03PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Could frame this differently? The normal framing (above) often ends up > with an assumption that everyone must eat meat, with only a limited > set-aside for vegetarians. This results in overconsumption of meat: it > force

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-04 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 04/02/15 22:59, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Could frame this differently? The normal framing (above) often ends up > with an assumption that everyone must eat meat, with only a limited > set-aside for vegetarians. This results in overconsumption of meat: it > forces normal people to eat meat

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2015-02-04 11:21:19 -0500, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:42:18AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >> Dietary restrictions: >> - Not applicable >> - No dietary restrictions <> >> - Vegetarian >> - Vegan (strict vegetarian) >> - Other (contact ASAP) Could frame th

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-04 Thread martin f krafft
This looks really good and well thought-through! Thank you, Cate and everyone else involved. Here are a few comments: > Full name (for badge): > Nickname (for badge): > Contact email: @ > [X] Subscribe to announcement list <> I am not sure we should make this optional. We shou

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2015-02-04 Thread Nattie Mayer-Hutchings
Hi folks, Passing along this message from Cate, since it never made it to the list from his original mailing. -Nattie (not actually top-posting) On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:42:18AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Hello -team! > > Here the question for registration. Nearly the same questions a

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:39:01PM -0400, Tássia Camões wrote: > 2014-04-14 13:08 GMT-04:00 Holger Levsen : > > On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in roommate > >> assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. > IM

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 14 avril 2014, 13.39:01 Tássia Camões a écrit : > 2014-04-14 13:08 GMT-04:00 Holger Levsen : > > On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in > >> roommate assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. > > IMHO

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Tássia Camões
2014-04-14 13:08 GMT-04:00 Holger Levsen : > On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: >> This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in roommate >> assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. > IMHO there is no sense in making room allocation based on sex instead of g

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in roommate > assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. I consider this a bug, but I'm tired of "arguing" here. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:51:33PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > (dropping the dc14 list.) > On Freitag, 11. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to capture the current state of the > > requirements in the wiki: > > https://wiki.debconf.org/action/edit/DebC

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (dropping the dc14 list.) On Freitag, 11. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to capture the current state of the > requirements in the wiki: > > https://wiki.debconf.org/action/edit/DebConf14/Registration please change "sex" to "gender" there and why

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-12 Thread Patty Langasek
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to capture the current state of the > requirements in the wiki: > https://wiki.debconf.org/action/edit/DebConf14/Registration > I'll keep it up to date as the discussion here progresses. Plea

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 10.04.2014 21:58, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Nickname >>*(seems like this should be explicitly "irc nick" or split?) > > Historically, we print the nick on the badges, to help with mapping > real-world to virtual identities. It's often an IRC nick, but could be > whatever nick someone w

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:01:03AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > > > I'm not aware if we've ever used this. I suspect that we probably > > > only need one contact phone number per person. > > registration: did you ever used them? > I am not aware of ever needing to have used this contact inform

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to capture the current state of the requirements in the wiki: https://wiki.debconf.org/action/edit/DebConf14/Registration I'll keep it up to date as the discussion here progresses. Please discuss on the list before making any changes; and if no one objects

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-11 Thread Patty Langasek
Resending since apparently my pre-coffee mastery of mutt at ungodly hours of the morning leaves some to be desired. Sorry - meant to include both lists with my reply. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:01:03AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:07:25PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-11 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The country list is out of date, South Sudan is not listed. ;P Hopefully > there's some way for us to import the country list into django so we don't > have to maintain it. https://packages.debian.org/python-django-countries __

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:18:03AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Starting a new thread, since I missed data hiding under other tabs. Here it > is again... > Here's what dc13 had. I've added some notes marked by "*": > "General" > > First name > Last name Should be taken from the OAuth2 database; I

[Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-10 Thread Kees Cook
Starting a new thread, since I missed data hiding under other tabs. Here it is again... Here's what dc13 had. I've added some notes marked by "*": "General" First name Last name Nickname *(seems like this should be explicitly "irc nick" or split?) Full name (for e.g. badges) Title Sex

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration: Are we sticking with Pentabarf, or leaving it behind?

2012-03-16 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:44:42PM -0600]: > > After the global team meeting today we want to revive the discussion on > > the dates for opening register, and deadlines for (travel, sleep and > > food) sponsorship application and talk submission. > > It's time for us to consider a b

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration: Are we sticking with Pentabarf, or leaving it behind?

2012-03-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 8. März 2012, Leandro Gómez wrote: > I agree with you that moving over to Frab is the best option in the long > term, but I'm a bit worried on starting this whole process only a few weeks > before the registration for DebConf12 opens. Maybe the best solution is to > stick with P

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration: Are we sticking with Pentabarf, or leaving it behind?

2012-03-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Leandro Gómez (leo.tel...@gmail.com): > I agree with you that moving over to Frab is the best option in the long > term, but I'm a bit worried on starting this whole process only a few weeks > before the registration for DebConf12 opens. Maybe the best solution is to > stick with Pentabarf

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration: Are we sticking with Pentabarf, or leaving it behind?

2012-03-07 Thread Leandro Gómez
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > So, if you have anything to say in this regard, please do so. Now. I > committed to determining a week from now whether we are sticking to > the Pentabarf Goddess or we go Frab ourselves instead. Or we could go > another route, if you suggest a

[Debconf-team] Registration: Are we sticking with Pentabarf, or leaving it behind?

2012-03-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, Following Felix's post in another thread: > After the global team meeting today we want to revive the discussion on > the dates for opening register, and deadlines for (travel, sleep and > food) sponsorship application and talk submission. It's time for us to consider a basic point for those

[Debconf-team] Registration costs

2012-02-25 Thread Felix Delattre
Dear global team. last year's DebConf had the following fee for professional and corporate registration: Professional: 450 Euros or 650 Dollars Corporate: 1000 Euros or 1400 Dollars Shall these maintain as they are? I think, that due to costs for transfer and money exchange it was justifiable t

[Debconf-team] Registration updates

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, - the about 500 personalized mails were just sent, as you can see - we removed four people from sponsored, who registered after 19 may and took advantage of the bug. I did not remove it from anyone who had first registered before 19 may, even if they weren't sponsored before then, sinc

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Tássia Camões dijo [Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:09:02PM -0300]: > I'd be happy to join the talks team, specially to help with the > scheduling process. Hi Tassia! Ok, great! Please add your name to the Wiki¹, as now it's still too early for the scheduling process to be held. I'll contact today the pe

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:51AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > talks@ - gwolf will hold down this alias for now, until the rest of > > the team is added. (has this replaced the old committee@ alias?) > > Gunnar Wolf > > (anyone else want to be on this now? There are more people listed on >

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-18 Thread Tássia Camões
Hi! 2011/4/18 Richard Darst : > >> talks@ - gwolf will hold down this alias for now, until the rest of >> the team is added.  (has this replaced the old committee@ alias?) > > Gunnar Wolf > > (anyone else want to be on this now?  There are more people listed on > the team, but I'm not sure who is

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Richard Darst wrote: > become important, Michael can help with SPI payment issues (want us to > ping you on IRC for things you need to look at, so you don't need to > follow all the mail?) Sure - a ping on IRC would be appreciated. ___ Debconf-team maili

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Darst
I'm going to mail admin@ and ask these people be put on the aliases. Sending separate mail to admin@ since I don't want to include addresses in this message. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:38:17AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > Hi, > > We need to get registration@ and talks@ aliases set up. > > regis

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Richard Darst wrote: > Hi, > > We need to get registration@ and talks@ aliases set up. Once you resolve who needs to be on these aliases (or others that are needed) e-mail ad...@debconf.org and they'll be updated. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-t

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Natalie Mayer-Hutchings
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 04:58:52PM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Yea, I'm in. Mightn't it be more sensible for you to concentrate on hotel and venue issues, and delegate registration to another team member? Delegating is a wonderful way of preventing burnout :) -nattie ___

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Velimir Iveljic
He will be there only to answer some of my questions, since he has more details on everything :) Thank you for your concern Natalie, Adnan needs people who will take care of him, since he tends to overbook his schedule regularly! Velimir On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Natalie Mayer-Hutchings

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Moray Allan
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Norman Garcia Aguilar wrote: >> talks@ - gwolf will hold down this alias for now, until the rest of >> the team is added.  (has this replaced the old committee@ alias?) > > Im in scheduling team, it is the same? :) The talks team decides what events we have, then

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Norman Garcia Aguilar
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > Hi, > > We need to get registration@ and talks@ aliases set up. > > registration@ - should have nattie (volunteered to join registration > team), me (to provide continuity with previous years: I don't plan on > being too active, if someone el

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Leandro Gómez
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Velimir Iveljic < velimir.li...@foolcontrol.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, me and Adnan perhaps for local team, but if he is too busy with > other stuff i think i could manage on my own. > > @visa team is fine, we need to start going through the list of > registered pe

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Yea, I'm in. Adnan On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, me and Adnan perhaps for local team, but if he is too busy with > other stuff i think i could manage on my own. > > @visa team is fine, we need to start going through the list of > registered people and se

Re: [Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Hi, Yes, me and Adnan perhaps for local team, but if he is too busy with other stuff i think i could manage on my own. @visa team is fine, we need to start going through the list of registered people and see who needs a visa, so we can get right on it! Velimir On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:38 PM,

[Debconf-team] registration@ and talks@ aliases

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, We need to get registration@ and talks@ aliases set up. registration@ - should have nattie (volunteered to join registration team), me (to provide continuity with previous years: I don't plan on being too active, if someone else wants to provide continuity). schultmc can join if ey wants (SPI

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, the later we close registration, the later we can decide on sponsorship. This will cause people to bookk expensive flights or not being able to book. (as some can only book if the know they'll get sponsorship). Thats why we need to close registration early. (And open early too.) cheers,

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 7. April 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > Sponsored registration: May 1 > > Paper deadline: May 15 or June 1 > > When would be the last day for sponsored registrations? you quoted it: May 1st in this proposal. I like Anas suggestion of having both deadlines (sponsored registratio

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Velimir Iveljic
My bad, i apologize! On Apr 7, 2011 11:09 AM, "Ana Guerrero" wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:04:32AM +0200, Velimir Iveljic wrote: >> Isn't May 15 kind of late for registration to be opened? >> >> I'm not trying to rush anything, but we need to know who's going to >> come, especially if they n

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Well the confusion may be avoided by not talking about closing deadlines of something that still *hasn't* even been opened. Please understand our confusion as eagerness of waiting to finally see registrations being open. Regarding closing both things together, I agree on that as it's way easier to

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:04:32AM +0200, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > Isn't May 15 kind of late for registration to be opened? > > I'm not trying to rush anything, but we need to know who's going to > come, especially if they need help acquiring a Visa or have some other > issues that require our hel

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Isn't May 15 kind of late for registration to be opened? I'm not trying to rush anything, but we need to know who's going to come, especially if they need help acquiring a Visa or have some other issues that require our help. Velimir On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >> Spons

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> Sponsored registration: May 1 > Paper deadline: May 15 or June 1 When would be the last day for sponsored registrations? Adnan On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:29:30PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think the last things we need to

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-06 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:29:30PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > Hi, > > I think the last things we need to do before registration is make sure > that the announcements and page texts look good. Gunnar has penta > mostly working. > > > My ideas for deadlines: > > Sponsored registration: May 1

[Debconf-team] Registration/CFP text + deadlines (please review)

2011-04-06 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, I think the last things we need to do before registration is make sure that the announcements and page texts look good. Gunnar has penta mostly working. My ideas for deadlines: Sponsored registration: May 1 Paper deadline: May 15 or June 1 I'm not highly attached to these, it's just a ran

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-04-02 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, This is an update on the latest registration plan / pentabarf changes. I have one idea to make it easier. This is updated due to the decision that we can't have people book directly with the hotels. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:10PM -0500, Richard Darst wrote: > Pentabarf changes > ==

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:47:25PM -0600]: > > Under all of this there could be explanation how the sponsorship > > process works, and in case they are denied they'll be let know, but > > same thing is by how sponsorships are determined, that is by their > > work within the project.

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Adnan Hodzic dijo [Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:19:20PM +0100]: > > The key thing here is there is no more "professional" category, we > > have these people book a room at the hotel directly, instead of us > > being a broker. > > This person will book room directly won't go over us and everything is >

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, As you know, I was the only silly guy to say "I'll work with Penta". Worst part: I have already done it, I know what it feels like. Anyway - I didn't even want to open your mail earlier on, until I had time to get a bit of Penta-grip on my hands. So, today I pushed the first bit of changes (v

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-16 Thread Richard Darst
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:10PM -0500, Richard Darst wrote: > Registration text for website > = http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Registration#Registration_page_text I copied it to the wiki, and improved using ideas from this thread. Please edit to make it go

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > This person will book room directly won't go over us and everything is > absolutely clear, but how will we know if he's even registered, if > he's even coming? If they want to attend DebConf, they would still need to register, like for any ot

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-15 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Thank you both Moray and Richard for trying to registrations more simple and clear. > The key thing here is there is no more "professional" category, we > have these people book a room at the hotel directly, instead of us > being a broker. This person will book room directly won't go over us and

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-13 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, One more suggestion: Stop directing people to http://penta.debconf.org/ and instead put that info on dc11/registration and directly to the account creation and conference registration pages. Some past DebConfs did this. It is one fewer thing to forget about updating things... http://penta.de

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 11. März 2011, Richard Darst wrote: > Moray and I went through and listed pentabarf changes to make and > along with it, the rough registration plan. Thank you very much for doing so! Looks good to me except... > Pentabarf changes > = > > remove these fields: > -

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-11 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Hi, Regarding hotels/food/accommodation: it looks ok, meaning it can be done that way on our (local team) side. Still i would like to take some time (a couple of days) to check this (meaning i want to know in detail how are we going to do this!). Velimir On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Richard

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Pentabarf side we need >> 1 someone to fixup the static html of http://penta.debconf.org > Whoever does this, I've always thought the "Create Account" and "Log > In" (or "Register") links should also be in a more prominent place, > such as on the side bar. Not hard to do. >> 2 create the dc1

[Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-10 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, Moray and I went through and listed pentabarf changes to make and along with it, the rough registration plan. This needs a good checking by local people (that it is practical) and global people (that it's what we want). I think this sort of represents what was discussed at the last global te

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2011-03-07 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:26:54PM +, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > From this discussion, we have some questions for the local team: > > >    * How is the hotel booking being handled? Do we simply have the > > whole hotel, or do we need to provide a number of rooms? > > We have rooms to alloca

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-07 Thread Richard Darst
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:00:13PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12409 March 1977, Richard Darst wrote: > > > Do we want to use Pentabarf? (assuming yes since it's a bit late to > > change). If so, what needs to be done to it before we can start? > > Pentabarf side we need > > 1 someone to

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 6. März 2011, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Pentabarf side we need > > 1 someone to fixup the static html of http://penta.debconf.org > 2 create the dc11 entry in pentabarf > 3 someone to come up with the needed changes in the way/data we ask of >the attendees, if any > 4 implemen

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12409 March 1977, Richard Darst wrote: > Do we want to use Pentabarf? (assuming yes since it's a bit late to > change). If so, what needs to be done to it before we can start? Pentabarf side we need 1 someone to fixup the static html of http://penta.debconf.org 2 create the dc11 entry in

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration questions

2011-03-06 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> From this discussion, we have some questions for the local team: >    * How is the hotel booking being handled? Do we simply have the > whole hotel, or do we need to provide a number of rooms? We have rooms to allocate 400 attendees in following hotels: Bosna, Vidovic, Palas. >    * Are meals

[Debconf-team] Registration questions

2011-03-05 Thread Moray Allan
Richard and I have been discussing the registration questions regarding accommodation and food on #debconf-team, and would like to hear some more opinions. The main aim in this discussion is to make the registration process simpler for attendees. In the past we've had to deal often with people wh

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-05 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:20:15PM +0100, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > I'll try and gather as much info as i can before the next debconf-team > meeting. > > A wiki page with the info could be a good idea so that everyone else is able > to pitch in with the info. After chatting with moray last night,

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-05 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:47:32AM +, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > Hint for all these: it's *much* easier if we can get non-sponsored > > people to interact directly with the hotel, rather than being a > > middle-man for bookings and payments.  This also avoids us having to > > be in the argument wh

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 5. März 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > Hint for all these: it's *much* easier if we can get non-sponsored > > people to interact directly with the hotel, rather than being a > > middle-man for bookings and payments.  This also avoids us having to > > be in the argument when people w

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-05 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> Hint for all these: it's *much* easier if we can get non-sponsored > people to interact directly with the hotel, rather than being a > middle-man for bookings and payments.  This also avoids us having to > be in the argument when people want to cancel at the last moment. Even though this does ea

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-04 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > - How do you recommend non-sponsored attendees work?  Reserve rooms >  through DebConf, or to the hotels directly? > > - How late can we cancel things (hotels, food) for attendees who >  find they can't come. > > - Any other restrictions in t

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:20:15PM +0100, Velimir Iveljic wrote: > I'll try and gather as much info as i can before the next debconf-team > meeting. > > A wiki page with the info could be a good idea so that everyone else is able > to pitch in with the info. > > I will create one and post a link

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-04 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> This is a ping on the registration process.  How do we want to do it > this year? I set this as one of the points on Meetings wiki (http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Meetings), since I wanted to go into much more detail regarding this. Since I was planning to open registrations starting nex

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-04 Thread Velimir Iveljic
I'll try and gather as much info as i can before the next debconf-team meeting. A wiki page with the info could be a good idea so that everyone else is able to pitch in with the info. I will create one and post a link as soon as i get to my dorm. Velimir On Mar 4, 2011 8:00 PM, "Richard Darst"

[Debconf-team] Registration

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, This is a ping on the registration process. How do we want to do it this year? Do we want to use Pentabarf? (assuming yes since it's a bit late to change). If so, what needs to be done to it before we can start? Next, we need the categories, for example: professional/corporate costs and w

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration Deadline for Professional/Corporate Category

2010-06-28 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi Daniel, On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:37:51PM -0400, Daniel E. Markle wrote: > I would like to attend Debconf as a paid 'Professional' category attendee, > but am late to the party to get registered. > > Penta allowed me to create an account and fill in registration details, and > I'm aware of

[Debconf-team] Registration Deadline for Professional/Corporate Category

2010-06-28 Thread Daniel E. Markle
I would like to attend Debconf as a paid 'Professional' category attendee, but am late to the party to get registered. Penta allowed me to create an account and fill in registration details, and I'm aware of the July 6 payment deadline to send money, but I didn't get a confirmation e-mail. I n

[Debconf-team] Registration/CfP status report

2010-02-03 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Here's the status: We're ready. Yaaay! :) http://debconf10.debconf.org/ has the current info about registration, CfP, and dates breakdown. Please see if anything doesn't seem right either there or in (the non-admin part of) penta and let me know. I plan to announce the start of registration/CfP vi

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration proposal

2010-01-19 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Ana Guerrero, Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:47:17PM +0100 |=- > Whatever penta says people always seems to be confused, if it were > possible > to have a wiki page linked in the top with every field explained a bit more > verbosely I think this problem could be minimized this, and hopefully, answer

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