On 16/03/13 04:07, micah anderson wrote:
> Gunnar Wolf writes:
>> USA, the eternal debate
>> ===
>
>> There is also this tradition we have of not repeating countries. Of
>> course, being the USA such a large country, and being its Debian
>> population so large, I would not giv
On 03/16/2013 10:27 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>
> The bid itself doesn't specify anything about the above, it just gives a
> link to DC10, which leaves me feeling that the bid team has
> underestimated the seriousness of these issues.
> https://www.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/VisaAndBorderIssues
Th
On 16/03/13 19:56, Allison Randal wrote:
> On 03/16/2013 10:27 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>
>> The bid itself doesn't specify anything about the above, it just gives a
>> link to DC10, which leaves me feeling that the bid team has
>> underestimated the seriousness of these issues.
>> https://www.d
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> My own feeling: countries like the US and Australia shouldn't bother
> holding major events like DebConf ...
The visas and border problems are not limited to US and Australia
and what we have to check every year is we have the resour
On 16/03/13 20:21, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> My own feeling: countries like the US and Australia shouldn't bother
>> holding major events like DebConf ...
>
> The visas and border problems are not limited to US and Australia
And someti
Hi Daniel,
please don't "freak out" too much about this border/visa/database issue and be
assured that we - as a team - are very well aware of those issues, also
because we discussed them at length for debconf10, and not much has changed
since them.
And like every year, each bid and each choos
Hi Gunnar,
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:26:26PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> And as the mails I just sent, some salient questions for you:
> USA, the eternal debate
> ===
> First, there's the obvious issue of going to the USA. Several European
> DebConf usual attendees voiced th
