Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary thoughts on Debian funding for DebConf10

2010-07-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:51:27AM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: > Sorry nobody has answered your e-mail and even more sorry I'll attempt > to answer it myself. Ditto :-) Also, it seems to me that the budget situation of dc10 got a lot better, so having this exchange is probably no longer needed, but

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary thoughts on Debian funding for DebConf10

2010-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 5. Juli 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: > shall we just create an event for dc10 now? further discussed with Stefano on IRC, now done, https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/658 Please schedule this during DebConf. I guess other global team members not attending DC10 would a

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary thoughts on Debian funding for DebConf10

2010-07-08 Thread Pablo Duboue
Hi Zack, Sorry nobody has answered your e-mail and even more sorry I'll attempt to answer it myself. This is 100% my personal opinions on the subject and it'll hopefully bring out other people views. First, from where I stand, the DC9 money were earmarked donations to the Debian project, so sure,

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary thoughts on Debian funding for DebConf10

2010-07-05 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Now, all the above sounds negative because I'm worried to pour some more > 20k into a conference which seems, on paper, to be living way above its > possibilities. Add to that the fact that Debian → DebConf money seems > to always have gone in one direction only, always

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary thoughts on Debian funding for DebConf10

2010-07-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stefano, thanks for taking this (and a lot of other matters, btw) seriously! On Montag, 5. Juli 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Unfortunately, there is a background never-answered question, i.e.: "are > DebConf moneys Debian moneys?", but I won't address it here (still, I'd > like to discuss

[Debconf-team] preliminary thoughts on Debian funding for DebConf10

2010-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ sorry for the long mail ] Dear DebConf(10) team, in the past few days I've been thinking quite a bit about your preliminary inquiry about 20k Debian funding for DebConf10. With this mail, I'd like to share with you some thoughts on the matter, in view of this evening meeting, which I'll join w