Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day: to be or not to be? (was Re: Cost reduction / shortening (was Re: not a registration fee, but...))

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/10/12 05:53, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Moray Allan dijo [Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 06:59:34PM +0100]: >> It is sad to say it, but it is clear that in most years Debian Day >> hasn't turned out that well compared to what has been hoped, and >> compared to the amount of work put into organising it. It h

[Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, This email is to state my thoughts on the proposed Le Camp reservation, more directly. I am looking over this with a critical eye, trying to ensure solvency. Thus, I am not relying on faith so much here, but provide "global team / debian oversight". It rightly seems more critical than other

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/10/12 14:54, Richard Darst wrote: > Hi, > > This email is to state my thoughts on the proposed Le Camp > reservation, more directly. I am looking over this with a critical > eye, trying to ensure solvency. Thus, I am not relying on faith so > much here, but provide "global team / debian ov

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Richard Thanks for your budget. Just two notes: - The minimum price is not per week but for the whole event. So we can use the nights we don't use during DebCamp for DebConf. This significantly reduces the costs. - Our budget calculates with 34.- CHF per meal as Le Camp already agreed t

Re: [Debconf-team] Cost reduction / shortening (was Re: not a registration fee, but...)

2012-10-28 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Moray Allan dijo [Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 06:59:34PM +0100]: >> It is sad to say it, but it is clear that in most years Debian Day >> hasn't turned out that well compared to what has been hoped, and >> compared to the amount of work put into orga

[Debconf-team] Interlaken photos/videos (be quick: temporary location)

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've temporarily put up the photos and videos from the Interlaken visit: http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/interlaken I wasn't able to bulk upload to gallery.debconf.org - but if someone else can do that on gallery or an alternative location, please do so and share the link, as I don't intend

[Debconf-team] Jungfrau Park visit notes

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
This is a brief summary of things observed/discussed during the visit If I've omitted anything, please feel free to add it Participants: Holger, Luca, Raphael, Gaudenz, Philipp and myself a) possible hotel construction (photo 6789) may commence during 2013, park may close to public visitors, e

Re: [Debconf-team] Website restyle

2012-10-28 Thread Allison Randal
On 10/28/2012 12:16 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > For now I think it's OK to just have an englisch page. As soon as we are > sure if the venue will be either in the german or french speaking part > we probably want to translate to this language. The other three > languages are nice to have but I

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship IRC meeting time

2012-10-28 Thread Raphaƫl Walther
Hello everyone, Hope you are all doing fine. This the sponsorship team meeting follow-up email. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 07:26:50PM +0200, Raphael Walther wrote: > Hi, > > I have chosen Saturday 27th October 2012 15:00 UTC+2 for 90 minutes. > > (it means Saturday 27th October 2012 9:00 UTC-4) Age

[Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp "BSP", part 1: Roundtable of preference of all people present

2012-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, so, this is a first in a serious of mails I plan to send tonight. Please don't bother replying until I ask for feedback in "the final mail". I'm really tired and highlighting and distracting me will make this take longer and steal from my sleep later. And sending this mail in pieces will he

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/10/12 at 16:03 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi Richard > > Thanks for your budget. Just two notes: > > - The minimum price is not per week but for the whole event. So we can > use the nights we don't use during DebCamp for DebConf. This > significantly reduces the costs. > - Our

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/10/12 21:27, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/10/12 at 16:03 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >> >> Hi Richard >> >> Thanks for your budget. Just two notes: >> >> - The minimum price is not per week but for the whole event. So we can >> use the nights we don't use during DebCamp for DebConf. Thi

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Gaudenz Steinlin writes: > Hi Richard > > Thanks for your budget. Just two notes: > > - The minimum price is not per week but for the whole event. So we can > use the nights we don't use during DebCamp for DebConf. This > significantly reduces the costs. > - Our budget calculates with 34

[Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp "BSP", part 2: le venue & le contract

2012-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, so, second in a serious series of serious mails send on a Sunday night. After the roundtable, Phillip Hug, Michele Cane and myself met with the manager of Le Camp. Michele was present in previous negotiations with Le Camp (and understands German) and Phillip was there, as he also wanted to

[Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp "BSP", part 3: irc meeting(s) on the internet

2012-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, so, you can flame now. Aka, this short serious series is over for today, hopefully to be continued already tomorrow... So, as a meeting in Le Camp we came to the conclusion to recommend to the globalteam to have DebConf13 in Le Camp and also to come to a final decision rather fast. Thats w

[Debconf-team] definitly missing, I think...

2012-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, whats been definitly missing in my mails, I think, is why now I think we can get that much sponsorship as we will need (though it was partly on IRC). Simply said: I expect that the real answer is in sponsors-table in git now or will be RSN. cheers, Holger (and there are other aspe

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp "BSP", part 3: irc meeting(s) on the internet

2012-10-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-10-28 23:52, Holger Levsen wrote: we decide RSN. I would hope so. But unfortunately it's premature to make any "final" decision until there is at least one plausible option presented, including among other things a plausible budget. Richard just started a new budget discussion, and

Re: [Debconf-team] definitly missing, I think...

2012-10-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2012-10-29 00:02, Holger Levsen wrote: whats been definitly missing in my mails, I think, is why now I think we can get that much sponsorship as we will need (though it was partly on IRC). Simply said: I expect that the real answer is in sponsors-table in git now or will be RSN. You've got

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp budget...

2012-10-28 Thread Richard Darst
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 04:03:57PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Thanks for your budget. Just two notes: > > - The minimum price is not per week but for the whole event. So we can > use the nights we don't use during DebCamp for DebConf. This > significantly reduces the costs. > - Our budg