[Debconf-team] DC15 local team meeting tonight, 21:00 local time

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
Hey people, let's sync up tonight again on what needs to be done for DC15 locally. Agenda is (will be) here: https://wiki.debconf.org/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-03-09 Topics will mainly be day trip, conference dinner, child care, and also starting off on stuff like furniture for job fair a

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 local team meeting tonight, 21:00 local time

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2015-03-09 14:37 +0100]: > https://wiki.debconf.org/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-03-09 Thanks edrz for pointing out, the link should be https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-03-09 -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : Deb

Re: [Debconf-team] RfC: current list of proposed topics/tracks

2015-03-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Michael and other orga folks-- On Sun 2015-03-08 17:15:58 -0700, Michael Banck wrote: > We will send out the CfP on Tuesday, so I thought I'd run the current > list of proposed topics/tracks by this list to get any final feedback. > Please note the list is already quite long right now, so if w

Re: [Debconf-team] RfC: current list of proposed topics/tracks

2015-03-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:34:33AM -0700, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Sun 2015-03-08 17:15:58 -0700, Michael Banck wrote: > > > We will send out the CfP on Tuesday, so I thought I'd run the current > > list of proposed topics/tracks by this list to get any final feedback. > > Please note

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2015-03-03 22:02 +0100]: > Ideally, you could send this to me by Sunday afternoon. The reason > is that the only real time I have next week for this is Sunday and > Tuesday evenings, and I want to have enough time to be able to ask > questions if needed. As per Richi'

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread David Bremner
martin f krafft writes: > As per Richi's request, I split infrastructure and video up. As > I have not received any other feedback, am I to assume that the > budget is good then, that is that your needs are addressed in the > budget? If not, please let me know ASAP! Hi Martin; I'd like to see t

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Bremner [2015-03-09 20:05 +0100]: > I'd like to see the travel sponsorship split into an amount for > internal use (sponsoring key volunteers) and the "normal" part > allocated by bursaries. That's easily done and possibly already included. The travel sponsorship budget is alrea

Re: [Debconf-team] RfC: current list of proposed topics/tracks

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > My immediate reaction would be that (i) it would fit into "Security, > Safety, and Hacking" (and if you think it might not, then maybe we > should add "Crypto" or "Cryptography" to the track title?), and (ii) you > should consider having a Deb

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > If at all possible, I think quickly accepting a few good talks and > then having 1-3 waves of accepted talks will help with press work. I didn't see any updates in this regard and still think it's really important. What do others think?

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:40 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > As per Richi's request, I split infrastructure and video up. As > I have not received any other feedback, am I to assume that the > budget is good then, that is that your needs are addressed in the > budget? If not, please let me know ASAP!

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > I really don't like this approach. People who have a problem with video would > refrain from participating if they need to convince us that they have a good > reason. Yes video is important, but IMHO we shouldn't do it on the cost of >

Re: [Debconf-team] Suggestions for improving our IRC meetings

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > I would then suggest to differentiate between the final #agreed and previous > (possible multiple) #proposed? #proposed is not implemented atm [1]. Proposing an #agreed line is trivial, though. > And really only state an agreement w

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Hartmann [2015-03-09 22:24 +0100]: > > What do you expect from Thursday's meeting? I am asking because the > > previous two budget meetings weren't very, uh, productive. > > To turn this around: What do you expect? I did not call the meeting. In my dream world, we'll spend

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:59 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > and then have 45 minutes or more available to reach > final approval of the budget by chairs and DPL. Just to make sure, we do expect to be able to change this later on, correct? Richard ___ De

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Martin, > On 09 Mar 2015, at 19:40, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach martin f krafft [2015-03-03 22:02 +0100]: >> Ideally, you could send this to me by Sunday afternoon. The reason >> is that the only real time I have next week for this is Sunday and >> Tuesday evenings, and I want

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Giacomo Catenazzi [2015-03-09 23:26 +0100]: > T-shirt and conference bags are already in budget. I don’t think > it is our domain, so I didn’t check carefully the prices. But > I think orga + video needs more t-shits. Good point about orga+video, though I already did increase the numb

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Hartmann [2015-03-09 23:14 +0100]: > > and then have 45 minutes or more available to reach final > > approval of the budget by chairs and DPL. > > Just to make sure, we do expect to be able to change this later > on, correct? In general: no; once the budget is decided, money

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 Budget discussion - Review now - Meeting on Thursday, March 12th - 19:30 UTC

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:47 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Good point about orga+video, though I already did increase the > number of t-shirts by 15% or so. We should plan with staff being able to get a new shirt at least every other day. Personally, I don't fancy running around in a sweaty shirt

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-09 Thread David Bremner
Richard Hartmann writes: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Richard Hartmann > wrote: >> If at all possible, I think quickly accepting a few good talks and >> then having 1-3 waves of accepted talks will help with press work. > > I didn't see any updates in this regard and still think it's really