also sprach Bernelle Verster [2015-08-27 21:52 +1200]:
> I've adapted the thread onto our Timeline [1], and copied relevant
> bits below.
[…]
Hey,
I missed the original e-mail, sorry about this. I think the general
timeline you propose looks good.
There are a few comments, questions, suggestion
Hi all
I'm supposed to be on holiday and offline, but I've started having
dreams about this thread, so...
I've adapted the thread onto our Timeline [1], and copied relevant
bits below. I resisted the temptation to put this onto the wider
timeline [2] as well, so we can test it first. Comments wel
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:38:34PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> I would even consider *not* calling it pre-registration, as that is
> too close to "registration". Maybe "enrollment" instead?
Other conferences just require that you have an account to submit
proposals or request sponsorship. Why
Hey everyone,
Thanks a lot for the interest and the support shown in this thread.
It does seem that we are mostly in agreement regarding the timeline.
It seems that we mostly need a better name for "pre-registration", and
there are some doubts about the month for bursaries being or not
enough tim
On 25/08/15 16:40, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Random thought: With that level of cash-flow, we could simply rent the
> infrastructure DSA was talking about in their BoF instead of looking
> for sponsors.
As I said in person multiple times, I think having dependable equipment
that infra and video k
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> But, for example, compare
> https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors and
> https://www.debian.org/partners/)
Tossing this onto -project may detoriate quickly, but those numbers
should be discussed at some point.
Random thought: W
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum [2015-08-25 10:26 +0200]:
> This sounds wrong to me. For me, the role of bursaries is to decide, for
> a specific attendee, if s/he should be sponsored to attend or not.
> That's a yes/no question (a hard one, but still). If you end up needing
> more budget to cover the
Hello Lucas,
On 25.08.2015 11:48, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 25/08/15 at 11:37 +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
>>
>> Note: food and accommodation is really a yes/no. But travel
>> sponsorship, which requires a lot more money, is much more difficult. We
>> will not have enough money, IMHO, for mos
On 25/08/15 at 11:37 +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
>
>
> On 25.08.2015 10:26, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 25/08/15 at 09:11 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> >> One month for bursaries is tight, but doable if we are well prepared. 1
> >> 1/2 months would be better. It mostly needs someone to dr
also sprach Giacomo Catenazzi [2015-08-25 11:35 +0200]:
> Most of people with pre-registration are sponsored people. Other
> people tend to register late, many non-sponsored attendes also
> after (old) "reconfirmation" (and this was one source of
> complain). This is true especially for profession
also sprach René Mayorga [2015-08-25 09:52 +0200]:
> I agree with cate here, if you only submit a talk just for the
> sake to be consider for travel sponsorship you are putting more
> burden to talk selection.
But isn't harder talk selection actually something to strive for,
because it means that
also sprach Giacomo Catenazzi [2015-08-25 08:10 +0200]:
> > or people registering because we tell them to, but then never
> > reconfirming, because they don't intend to attend anymore.
>
> I don’t follow it. I think we will have the same problem with
> people not registering but with preregistrat
On 25.08.2015 10:26, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 25/08/15 at 09:11 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
>> One month for bursaries is tight, but doable if we are well prepared. 1
>> 1/2 months would be better. It mostly needs someone to drive the process
>> as David did it this year.
>>
>> At the bursar
On 25/08/15 at 09:11 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> >> or people registering because we tell them to, but
> >> then never reconfirming, because they don't intend to attend anymore.
> >
> > I don’t follow it. I think we will have the same problem with people
> > not registering but with preregistr
On 25/08/15 at 10:42 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum writes:
> >> >
> >> > From past experience, the bursaries needs more than one months. The
> >> > important part is travel sponsorship, especially for Cape Town, and this
> >> > take much time. But let’s see commentary of bursa
Hello Gaudenz,
On 25.08.2015 09:11, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
>
>
> Giacomo Catenazzi writes:
>
>> Hello Marga,
>>
>>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola
>>> wrote:
(...)
>>> When the registration period opens, everyone needs to fill in all
>>> their registration data (dates of atte
Lucas Nussbaum writes:
>> >
>> > From past experience, the bursaries needs more than one months. The
>> > important part is travel sponsorship, especially for Cape Town, and this
>> > take much time. But let’s see commentary of bursaries team. (OTOH on your
>> > timeline, we have 2 months befo
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 08:10:13AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
>
Hola :)
>
> > On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola
> > wrote:
>
> > Regarding talks
> (…)
>
> > This year we had the submission deadline in the middle of the
> > reconfirmation process, which meant that approved tal
Gaudenz Steinlin writes:
> Giacomo Catenazzi writes:
>
>> Hello Marga,
>>
>>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola
>>> wrote:
>>
>> (…)
>>> The pre-registration period is for people that are requesting
>>> sponsorship or submitting event proposals. They would only express
>>> their i
Fully agreed with Marga and Gaudenz' replies.
Richard
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Giacomo Catenazzi writes:
> Hello Marga,
>
>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola
>> wrote:
>
> (…)
>> The pre-registration period is for people that are requesting
>> sponsorship or submitting event proposals. They would only express
>> their intent on going to DebConf (and DebCam
Hello Marga,
> On 24 Aug 2015, at 23:48, Margarita Manterola
> wrote:
(…)
> The pre-registration period is for people that are requesting
> sponsorship or submitting event proposals. They would only express
> their intent on going to DebConf (and DebCamp if applicable) and then
> fill in the s
also sprach Michael Banck [2015-08-25 00:05 +0200]:
> I don't always top-post, but when I do it's to say I agree 100%.
So do I! ;)
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I don't always top-post, but when I do it's to say I agree 100%.
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:48:14PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> We talked a bit about this during the DebConf Sprint that we had
> during DebCamp and my feeling was that there was rough consensus about
> it. I'm send
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