Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patty Langasek [2015-02-22 23:39 +0100]: > I have ... difficult ... food allergies that I contend with, and > I find that vegetarian dishes by and large conflict with my > restricted diet consistently (onions, mushrooms and garbanzo > beans). Dear Patty, it is my impression that th

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:11 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Food preferences: > None > I like to eat meat and fish > No animal products for me (vegan, strict vegetarian) > Other / allergies (contact organisers) After some more thought, I think this phrasing would only lead to conf

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > * other: Make that "allergies". We do want to accommodate Patty. We do not want to accommodate the cookie monster or LCA's bacon man. Richard ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@list

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 21.02.2015 16:11, martin f krafft wrote: > At the same time, I think we could try to avoid speaking about > vegetarians and vegans as "restricted", which has a bit of a > negative connotation, or so I've been told numerous times now. Why? It is a restriction of food choice. All of us have foo

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Anthony Towns [2015-02-23 03:25 +0100]: > given there's a "meat+fish" option, I'd probably read "Food > preferences: None" as "Don't give me any food, I'll go elsewhere"; > or maybe "I'll eat anything" and expect it to be the same as the > same as the meat+fish option. If it really mea

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-23 Thread Bernelle Verster
Hi I'm just reading this to pick up for DC16... It may be helpful to think, what do you REALLY want to know, and could you ask that? How about a tick box, "would you mind/agree to eat vegetarian meals (no meat/fish - you choose the words here) for the official/provided conference meals?" If not,

[Debconf-team] Voluntary conference contributions for pro/corp attendees

2015-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, DebConf attendance is free of charge for everyone, but we have suggested (and are planning to suggest) to our professional and corporate attendees to contribute certain amounts towards covering the conference costs. These are always entirely voluntary contributions and nothing keeps a corpo

Re: [Debconf-team] proposal for combining ranking factors for travel grants

2015-02-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Thanks for this impressive work. It's nice how it looks very fair and very simple at the same time. On 21/02/15 at 14:46 +0100, David Bremner wrote: > h) In case we need to fund a partial "cohort", we need some way to order >the cohort. We could sort that cohort according to contribution

Re: [Debconf-team] proposal for combining ranking factors for travel grants

2015-02-23 Thread David Bremner
Richard Hartmann writes: > Unless I am mistaken, this is for "we don't have enough money", but if > we end up with "we have enough/too much money", we could still end up > with partial cohorts. Right, this is in some sense a separate problem, but every year we offer sponsorship to people and som

Re: [Debconf-team] proposal for combining ranking factors for travel grants

2015-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Bremner [2015-02-23 23:15 +0100]: > Of course we could just estimate the cancelation rate, and build > that into the budget also. This is slightly riskier, although > perhaps simpler. Yay, budgeting. You need a statistics crystal ball for that anyway. -- .''`. martin f. kra