Re: [Debconf-team] Accessibility meeting

2011-07-22 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
On 21-07-2011 19:08, Tássia Camões wrote: 2011/7/21 Moray Allan: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: What about Saturday (July 23rd) right after (or right before) Orga Meeting? Tássia suggests making it a third-room BOF next week. Fine by me. It may c

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:40:10PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > My overall plan would be something like this: > > Mail -discuss telling of my plan. (Perhaps not even mention Clint > in the first message, instead follow up saying "here is one > example"). Ask if anyone else would like to c

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:49:00PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=$their_email_address&comaint=yes > > search("$their_name site:lists.debian.org") > > search("$their_name site:bugs.debian.org") > > search("$their_name site:debian.org") - which gets everyt

[Debconf-team] ToDo / status at dc11

2011-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
straight from the wiki page: ToDo / status at dc11 start final report (needs a volunteer to do) [DebConf11/FinalReport] daytrip comittee to solve this: andrew, adnan, micah, zlatan still pending conference dinner bigger screen big room signs to hacklab, auditoriums, toilets, frontd

[Debconf-team] Reschedule of Cheese and Wine...

2011-07-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Don't worry, no big change..:-) Could the C&W be officially rescheduled in Penta to 21:00 on Monday 26th. I think 21:00 is more appropriate given the dinner time window. Once done, I will send a more formal announcement to debconf-announce, as well as call for help to setup a mini-team of volunte

[Debconf-team] Talk selection (was Re: Special sponsorship)

2011-07-22 Thread Blars Blarson
This year I was involved in the talk selection team, and we had the same problem with people not filling in fields and getting downgraded because of it. A title is not enough to select on in most cases, and you can't assume we know what you mean. ___ Deb

[Debconf-team] Spare HP netbook from DebConf10 to give away at DebConf11

2011-07-22 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Micah told me that while cleaning DebConf10 stuff Daniel and he found an HP netbook supposedly to be given away last year. Now, the major "problem" [1] is to find out how to do that. [1] I would like all my problems to be like this one... The easiest thing would be to organize the sam

[Debconf-team] T-shirts info for front desk

2011-07-22 Thread Moray Allan
Would it be possible to get a dump from penta of the t-shirt sizes requested by people who have *not* already arrived? We have some people turning up who registered very recently, so it would be useful to know how many we now have spare in each size, to know when to start refusing them the confere

Re: [Debconf-team] [budget] batteries & cables

2011-07-22 Thread Philip Hands
2011-07-20 DOD "STYLUS" 1x DYMO replacement Tape 17.66 KM 2011-07-20 1st receipt: "MONTGRAF" DOD Printing 15 A3 posters 11.55 KM =-=-=- 2nd receipt: EASTCODE DOD 2x Kabl UPS (i.e long mains "kettle" leads) 3.50 each 7.00 KM =-=-=- 3rd receipt: C

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:59:44 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > No, but they did provide quite a detailed response to what they're doing for > Debian, as you did, and they paid quite a significant sum toward their costs > by > the standards of many Debian Developer budgets, despite not properly > e

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:59:44 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > One more thing: in a lot of the mails and other communications from several of > the people asking me these questions, I'm inferring lots of suspicions of > favoritism or impropriety or cliqueishness or some kind of personalized action

[Debconf-team] Busses for departure

2011-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, because I did not got any response from a local yesterday on IRC: I prepared a Wiki page to collect names of people interested in renting a bus for the main departure day: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Departures/RentABus Before I make noise on the gerneral list about this: Coul

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:02:30 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > This would be very useful indeed, so that next year's team can be aware of > additional transparency / appearance-of-impropriety gotchas and avoid them > better than we did. Based on this thread we had at least the appearance of > doing

Re: [Debconf-team] Busses for departure

2011-07-22 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > because I did not got any response from a local yesterday on IRC:  I > prepared a Wiki page to collect names of people interested in renting a > bus for the main departure day: > >  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Departures/Re

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:49:17 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it > > included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am > > further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10. > > I don't think Clint sh

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Micah, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:57:22PM +0200, micah anderson wrote: > The *appearance* of impropriety is incredibly important to an auditor[0] > who might at any point decide to scrutinize SPI as an > organization. Regardless if it was intentional or not, its the > appearance that matters. A

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:10:14PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:18:03AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > When is the travel sponsorship process going to be fixed to stop asking > > about total travel costs vs. sponsored travel costs, and instead focus on > > what's imp

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:17:48PM +0200, micah anderson wrote: > > > If we want to keep debconf and debian out of tax trouble, a committee > > > designed to execute a process that allocates money between themselves > > > isn't how its done. > > > > > Calling this a simple mistake is ignoring a v

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:54:27AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that one of the problems is that people have different > understandings of "travel assistance needed". What does "needed" mean? > One could use a loan to pay the debconf trip, so even in this case, the > travel assistance is

Re: [Debconf-team] President's speech

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Moray Allan [110721 15:38]: > It was previously suggested that a press release be prepared in > advance to publicise the President's speech at Debian Day. Has > anything started on this? Assuming it hasn't, please could the local > team work with the Debian press team on it? > > For this

Re: [Debconf-team] Reschedule of Cheese and Wine...

2011-07-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christian PERRIER dijo [Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:26:22AM +0200]: > Don't worry, no big change..:-) > > Could the C&W be officially rescheduled in Penta to 21:00 on Monday > 26th. I think 21:00 is more appropriate given the dinner time window. > > Once done, I will send a more formal announcement t

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Steve Langasek [110722 16:39]: > I think this is an invented problem. There is no reason not to take Debian > contributors at their word when they say they "need" a certain amount of > travel assistance to attend DebConf. If we aren't willing to trust Debian > contributors to answer such

Re: [Debconf-team] T-shirts info for front desk

2011-07-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Moray Allan dijo [Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:45:38PM +0200]: > Would it be possible to get a dump from penta of the t-shirt sizes > requested by people who have *not* already arrived? > > We have some people turning up who registered very recently, so it > would be useful to know how many we now have

[Debconf-team] talks room names

2011-07-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi folks-- the talks team has just clarified and normalized the names of the rooms where the talks wil be held. The two rooms that have video-team coverage are: * Auditorium * Round Room The third talks room (see recent debconf-discuss announcement) is: * Meeting room The names have been c

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
[ agreed with everything you wrote ] On 22/07/11 at 16:33 +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > That's it. There's no reason, with a proper decision making process, for > the sponsorship committee to even *know* the total travel costs of the > attendees - and the fact that this is part of the informatio

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Micah, I'm going to rearrange your email to respond better to the different points you're making. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:05:30PM +0200, micah anderson wrote: > When the rationale, for some reason, continues to be that Clint did not > answer the second question, [...] > dkg did not provide

Re: [Debconf-team] T-shirts info for front desk

2011-07-22 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Replied in private. Received, thanks! -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Steve, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:33:40PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:10:14PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:18:03AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > When is the travel sponsorship process going to be fixed to stop asking > > > about

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Micah, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:06:04PM +0200, micah anderson wrote: > I agree with you that we are all acting in good faith, but I have to > point out that your inference that these arguments are being made > because of suspicion of bad faith or some sort of conspiracy is saying > that those

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Offer for electrical installations inside the venue

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Darst
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:57:46PM +0200, Marinko Tarlać wrote: > Hi to all. > > Here is the offer for the electrical installations inside the > building. As I can see, the price for equipment and the > installations is 1900KM + 323KM (VAT)... That is 2223KM (1140 €) > > As I can see from the off

[Debconf-team] Swimming pools in Banja Luka

2011-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, this afternoon I checked options for going swimming. My first try was the river. At first sight it looked OK, the water temperature is what *I* would call perfect, but the beach is not only full of stones but also of broken glas bottles and we even found a razor blade. Perhaps people rememb

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Moray Allan
Is there a good reason for the travel sponsorship team to include people asking for travel sponsorship? It seems like there are enough good candidates for the team among people not asking for it. -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@list

Re: [Debconf-team] [budget] batteries & cables

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:51:26AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > my money, so I'm to be reimbursed > > (The last receipt being from Nattie, which I paid her for) > > Would you please mail me the state of my expenses in Ledger once this is > added, so I know how much to whinge about to DIVA, and s

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:16:44PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > I think this is an invented problem. There is no reason not to take Debian > > contributors at their word when they say they "need" a certain amount of > > travel assistance to attend DebConf. If we aren't willing to t

Re: [Debconf-team] Reschedule of Cheese and Wine...

2011-07-22 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
On 22-07-2011 11:26, Christian PERRIER wrote: Don't worry, no big change..:-) Could the C&W be officially rescheduled in Penta to 21:00 on Monday 26th. I think 21:00 is more appropriate given the dinner time window. Monday 25th or Tuesday 26th? The announcement also went out with "Monday 26th

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:09:40AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The obvious drawback of this solution is that someone needs to populate > the ballpark numbers table. It can be done lazily (i.e. while voting > applications the herb team members populate the table using travel price > search en

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:10:33PM +0200, Moray Allan wrote: > Is there a good reason for the travel sponsorship team to include > people asking for travel sponsorship? It seems like there are enough > good candidates for the team among people not asking for it. Agreed. It would be good to elimin

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:16:44PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > * Steve Langasek [110722 16:39]: > > I think this is an invented problem. There is no reason not to take Debian > > contributors at their word when they say they "need" a certain amount of > > travel assistance to atten