Re: [Debconf-team] conference management system wishes

2006-01-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060128 14:32]: > (Does someone remember what lists were usefull during the last > years?) - A check if the speaker of a session has realy arrived at the conference - For the moderator of a track: A list of speakers, when they will do their session.

Re: [Debconf-team] english is spoken elsewhere than just .uk/.us, and spanish is not .mx only as well

2006-02-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 12:50]: > > just today I saw those stupid national flags (*) in the upper right corner > > of http://www.debconf.org/ - could we please agree on replacing those flags > > with the words "english / español" ? español in html... [..] > * alphascorpii

Re: [Debconf-team] Public participants list - Is it OK this way?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060216 16:32]: [ list ] > - Should I consider any of this information as private? It's okay with me, but I think it could be possible for others to think otherwise ;) > I think maybe I could add a field allowing people to hide their > arrival/departure t

Re: [Debconf-team] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DebConf Paper submission]

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060216 20:51]: > > what do you guys think of this late talk proposal? it sounds good > > to me and as far as i am concerned could be slotted in somewhere. > if i dont hear from you guys (especially those on the committee > for talks & papers) soon, i wi

Re: [Debconf-team] inviting LWN again?

2006-02-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060217 11:15]: > > i contemplate to invite LWN to debconf again. > > thoughts? > If we are short on money, can't we invite them without paying their flights ? Sounds like a good idea to me. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http:/

Re: [Debconf-team] mysql asks for a talkslot

2006-02-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060221 11:28]: > I don't understand anything. I even had more coffee, and I still don't > understand. Can you clarify? Guessing: stockholm asked them for money, they asked for a talk. stockholm: I really understand your situation, and don't want to change with

Re: [Debconf-team] intel talk?

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060227 23:16]: > this is a ping to ask people what their oppinion on the intel talk is now. > > should we vote on it? or should we try to find consensus? It's still okay with me. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.cat

Re: [Debconf-team] Authentication for food

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060228 12:37]: > What do you think? Do you oppose the simple trust model? I would prefer the simple trust model without food tickets; mainly because food tickets always end up not near to me, when I need them - I always forget them (and I think I'm not the

Re: [Debconf-team] Authentication for food

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060228 14:39]: > My idea was the following: If we have n food tickets we'll have > to pay for n meals. However, it does not matter *who* uses a food ticket. > So if I skiped a meal and thus have an extra ticket, I can give it to > someone else, so (s)he us

Re: [Debconf-team] On the logistics for registration (and why we want the two extra rooms)

2006-03-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060302 03:06]: [..] > - I think the video guys, as well as the organization guys working > inside our bunker, will appreciate being close to the hacklab, so > whenever they want a bit of fresh air they can just crash with the > other hackers. At DC5 I

Re: [Debconf-team] Authentication for food

2006-03-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060302 09:31]: > > (Maybe Ganneff who is always hungry... but didn't someone told us, the > > portions there are even big enough for him?) > Well, YOU'll go get me some food if he rips off my badge and gets extra > serving pretending he was me ;) That's f

Re: [Debconf-team] Authentication for food

2006-03-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060302 13:09]: > > That's for sure. Seeing Ganneff pretending to be 1.68m high would be > > worth to loose one meal :) > Wait - Do I have to get height/weight/photo information in the > nametags? :-O No, I was just joking. Asking for pictures is useless si

[Debconf-team] (fwd) Re: Question for Andreas Schuldei: Debconf vs DPL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-03-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! I know that mail is a couple of days old. But guessing not everyone on this list is reading debian-vote, I thought it might be good idea to forward a nice quote from stockholm there. Asked about possible conflictes in case he get's allected as DPL between this job and him being head organize

Re: [Debconf-team] budget woes

2006-03-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060329 23:52]: > That means that we need to find a way to save money. > > We can for example limit the number of sponsored accommodation > and meals to 200, or not pay the breakfast, reapproach the people > with flight-sponsorship to reconsider and pay

Re: [Debconf-team] (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Thomas Bliesener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060410 23:23]: > > I would not suggest bringing large amounts of cheese, as it can become > > sandwiches for the customs people :) > Large amounts of goods (e.g. t-shirts or CDs) are always considered > suspicious. (Ask RMS who lost most part of his GNU

[Debconf-team] procedings

2006-04-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Some of you might have noticed a new folder in the -data svn called "procedings". As you might expect it contains the procedings ;) They are nearly ready to go to print; some papers are still missing (of which some asked for more time, some other speakers are just black holes). If you woul

Re: [Debconf-team] procedings

2006-04-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060412 03:35]: > Ok, great job! Thanks. Thanks to Google and Ganneff for helping with that, too ;) > So, right now we have 106 pages. I suppose we will be printing this in > half-letter format, just as last year, right? Oh, good, that reminds me, that I

Re: [Debconf-team] procedings

2006-04-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060412 23:15]: > Well, there's at least one paper which, ahem, is a bit long...:-) > /me hides... You can run but you can't hide! BTW: For next year I would propose some kind of a seperate review phase for the papers. Although we offered the spea

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk proposal

2006-04-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Alt, Maxim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060413 00:47]: > I had experience difficulties with submitting our talk proposal. After > numerous attempts to submit the proposal via the debconf site (followed > by Mike Jennings's requests in february), Andreas had recommended me to > submit the following

[Debconf-team] beta1 proceedings available

2006-04-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! I just uploaded the first beta version of the proceedings. I still call it beta, since I still miss two promissed papers (the OpenSolaris one and the Debian Debugging Debacle one), and haven't added the cover and back (IIRC we used a sepperate file for those laste year anyway, since we were p

[Debconf-team] about the early arrivals mails

2006-04-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
erola | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| 2006-05-08 00:00:00 | Debian Developer orga Holger | Levsen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2006-05-03 00:00:00 | Non-DD maintainer orga Alexander | Schmehl| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Debconf-team] Advertise being short on money?

2006-04-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060426 07:49]: > Sorry for following up to myself but I think it's important to mention > that the mail Alexander just sent exactly fits what I had in mind when > nagging you people with that topic. Thanks, having spend quite a lot if time in it and b

Re: [Debconf-team] Vegetarian/vegan options review

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060426 17:47]: > Please inquire about the pasta having egg in it. [..] > > * Has cheese, the rest is fine. Vegans may want not to take spagetti > > though. > > what's wrong with the spaghetti? Aren't Spaghetti pasta, too and could contain eggs? Yours sincerely

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk/Workshop Schedule [First Try]

2006-05-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Just to be sure, it won't get lost in the nirvana of irc: * Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060501 06:33]: > Attached is the first Talk/Workshop schedule; Assuming people have > specified their arrival/departure dates correctly, the talks should > have been put into correct slots. The fol

[Debconf-team] Still chance to move the DayTrip to start earlier?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! [ If you already started to print and spread information about that, please tell me so, and we'll forget it ] After resending Gunars "please register for daytrip" mail to debconf-announce, I got several request to move it a bit, so it starts earlier. Currently the schedule are: 10:00-10

Re: [Debconf-team] Internet access at Debconf

2006-05-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Simon! * Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060511 10:50]: > I was wondering if there would be wired or wireless Internet access at > Debconf this year. If not, what's a good way of getting online while > I'm there? Yes, we'll have wired and wireless Internet access here. It's a bit flicky some

Re: [Debconf-team] my trip for debconf delayed.

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Guntupalli Karunakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060511 08:07]: > [..] One of the stated reasons was that I didnt give > sufficient documentation on my reasons for visiting mexico (eg. a > conference invitation letter). If there is any document which can > serve as invitation letter, do send if possibl

Re: [Debconf-team] network in the tower

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060514 10:09]: > we should be able to give you wireless in the tower from now on, only if we > encounter streaming problems due to ethernet collisions or whatever (its a > 10mbit link+tunnel thru the hotel network) we _might_ turn it off to ensure > str

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 2007 UK bid

2006-05-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Moray Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060520 02:35]: > There is a document from the DebConf2007 UK bid team at Hmmm... one question: "We would also have the use of five hacklabs, which each seats between 25 and 50 people." To you see any possibilitie to prevent the splitting of the hacklabs in

Re: [Debconf-team] Re: addition of a (mirroring) sponsor to the debconf6 web page

2006-05-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060524 02:12]: > > the ISP hosting one of the server which I configured for streaming > Maybe it's useful to add the URL to which the logo should point to: > http://www.cineca.it/ just comitted; the logo should appear on the website soon. I put

Re: [Debconf-team] Re: Local Meeting prior to the decision

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060607 16:24]: > Its also relatively cheap for me to visit both places, just checked for > the flights. I dont know, should I plan something? Can be me, can be > others... I would have time for that, too. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.net

Re: [Debconf-team] Re: MOVED: IRC Meeting to decide about next DebConf location

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060607 22:16]: > For now, if noone has another good reason to move it, let it be on > > Monday, 26 June, #debconf-team on OFTC "Same time, same line" Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature __

[Debconf-team] I'm taking a break

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Currently I'm feeling a bit burned out (no wonder - didn't had time to recover since then); since several others told me, that this seems to affect my work I take emergency break and leave for some time (one or two weeks, who knows?) from some of my Debian work. I won't read much in the lists

[Debconf-team] Number of attendees

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
122 12:50-13:35 i18n Infrastructure AdHoc Session I by Christian Perrier : ~35 15:20-16:05 Representing Debian - Doing the best for the best? by Alexander Schmehl : ~35 16:15-17

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: Visit to Bosnia - plan draft UPDATED!

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060627 10:55]: > So, here is an update of schedule for DebCon7 orga team visit: > Thursday: > 09:00 gathering at the Skenderija plateau (Sarajevo Centre) The first draft had this formulated a bit different: > Thursday -09:00 hours: Meeting at Skend

Re: [Debconf-team] An idea about the dormitory in Sarajevo...

2006-07-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060630 17:49]: > If, if and if we get chosen to host, we could ask for more benefits/lower > prices or something and let them keep our networking after the conference for > future use (access points, cables and such stuff), should we get these parts >

Re: [Debconf-team] Why do we not have more photos uploaded from Sarajevo venues on DebConf galleries?

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 09:26]: > I still do not have commit access to gallery. Yes, you have. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html _

Re: [Debconf-team] report sarajevo - answers

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 10:31]: > > - can we NOT have passport checks at the center? > Offcourse we can, after all nobody from the Centre mentioned that, but we > could probably use DebConf7 ID cards. Don't take me wrong with this; but I found it confussing, how you use

Re: [Debconf-team] alternative ways of funding debconf

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060703 18:57]: > if we limit local sponsorship to e.g. 200 people to keep costs > under control [..] I think we should drop the "full sponsorship or not at all" attempt. As already told, AFAIK many people would be willing to pay for their meals, since

[Debconf-team] Sarajevo report

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Here is my report about our visit in Sarajevo. Sorry, that it took me so long to send it. You'll find updated versions in the svn repository, too. General impressions about Sarajevo and their local team: Let's first start with the the sm

Re: [Debconf-team] Edinburgh Text

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 14:58]: > > Option 3 - Art College > > == > I didn't see a comment about weelchair accesibility in this one. Can > you comment please? That location seems to be fit for wheelchairs. You can even choose between using the elevat

[Debconf-team] Edingburgh report

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Sorry, this report is rather short, mainly because we arrived there during a weekend and couldn't check everything. Edingburgh report Short summary: == Edingburgh showed us three different possible venues. Since we visited the city on a weekend, we could inspect one venue only par

Re: [Debconf-team] report sarajevo - answers

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 16:56]: > > I owe you a bear, > since safir might not drink beer it was very kind to offer a bear > instead. Ups, sorry ;) You may choose between: [ ] Erdbaeren [ ] Heidelbaeren [ ] Johannisbaeren [ ] Stachelbaeren Sorry, all other bears are curre

Re: [Debconf-team] report sarajevo - answers

2006-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 18:19]: > I choose Heidelbaeren :) Then DebConf 7 must be in Bosnia, because import regulations to the United Kingdom doesn't allow me to bring any fruits ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://ww

Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo report

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060705 04:17]: > In time, as I understood it, we will need to set the info > in all EDI's venues, right? Yes. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-

Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo report

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 20:58]: > This was a problem in Helsinki (and to a lesser extend in > Oaxtepec). Looking at how well the helsinki debconf turned out > this did not have a huge impact on the bottom line. Well, even if you didn't noticed any huge impact, people e

Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo report

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060704 18:31]: > > a) The conference will be in Europe, which means cheaper flights (and > > less money we need to spend for travell reimbursement) > As far as I understand it, this is not the case for Sarajevo. > Sarajevo is an expensive location t

Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo report

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060705 11:25]: > >... > > ... which was our idea and the local team didn't liked to ask them about > > that. > >... > Well, we, the local team said that we are not planning to use the kitchen for > hacklab and as kitchen at once. No, when we were talki

Re: [Debconf-team] report sarajevo

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060705 18:45]: > On other places there's special cars ready to deal with handicapped > people. Usually they have a lift and like. Would be very important to > check it. I would expect the hotel to have a special car available for transportation. Saphir

[Debconf-team] Re: Meeting for DebConf7 Location

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060705 23:12]: > Everyone is invited to participate in the list > (debconf-team@lists.debconf.org), so feel free. But please read the > archives, we had a lot of repeated questions today, that unfortunately > just disturbs. Thank you. Also please read the

Re: [Debconf-team] Security situation in U.K. - London incident

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060706 13:56]: > Well, according to BBC, U.K. police has a "shoot to kill" police on an > unarmed > suspected people just because of their complexion. I think both teams have mor important things to do than throwing mud at each other, as well as we have mo

[Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Currently it seems a bit complicate to compare the venues with each other. Neither the reports [1][2][3][4][5][6] we have written, nor the informationen created by the local teams [7][8] work well, if you just want to campare different aspects of them. So I took the liberty to create a seper

Re: [Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues

2006-07-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 11:04]: > > So I took the liberty to create a seperate wiki page for that, based > > upon the location checklist we created previously [9]. > That's great, I think we now owe you a _bear_ too! I would like to have Erdbaeren :) > Anyway, I am missing the es

Re: [Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues

2006-07-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ernedin Zajko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 09:21]: > I think that there should be mentioned that some of the people in SJJ > Local team were/are involved in organizing different kind of events > conferences. Thanks; for pointing that out; I added it as "some of them have been active organiz

Re: [Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues

2006-07-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ernedin Zajko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 15:50]: > It is definitely doable, only thing we are trying is to get some > official document for those that don't believe in that... Yes, I heard similar things from local Bosnians over here. However, I choosed the wording very carefully, after

Re: [Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues-Sarajevo prices update

2006-07-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 16:45]: > Update on SJJ prices: [..] Thanks. I updated the numbers and put the estimations in a wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf7/VenueComparisonPrices Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html h

Re: [Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues

2006-07-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ernedin Zajko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 17:20]: > Well only thing I can say now is what I was told (from highly ranked > official in the Ministry - head of the dep. that is in charge of > Bosnian visas), and from the others that organized similar staff in > Bosnia (NGO meetings, festival

[Debconf-team] Please clarify network connection

2006-07-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! There seems to be some confusion about the network connection at the hotel. You made different statement on irc about that and there was a wiki change at the venue comparision page [1] which conflicts previous statements: "In SJJ, Internet connection could be almost free, because a member of

Re: [Debconf-team] Comparing the proposed venues

2006-07-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 16:39]: > > Anyway, I am missing the estimated cost of each venue there, how hard > > would it be to add that info in order to compare each option? > I'll try, but that is a bit difficult... We still lack some numbers,

Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo text - c/o aj (DPL)

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060709 12:31]: > Seeing your vigor in debunking this connection, I'd like to direct your > attention to another group of potential terrorists in Edinburgh. Namely, the > catering service which the Edinburgh team suggests on their wiki is "the > mosque

[Debconf-team] My vote as dc7 venue delegate

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Ever since I became deeper involved in DebConf more than two years ago, I was always wondering myself if the fun is worth the amount of work and stress it brings. So far, I kept on going, because a) I considered DebConf to be very important, b) someone has to do the job and c) some people t

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 7 location

2006-07-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060711 23:14]: > could you please announce it and maybe coordinate on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -evens- ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Descript

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf8, 9++ locations...

2006-07-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060712 06:08]: Checked from Frankfurt-Rhein-Main (FRA) with expedia.de (don't know, if that is the cheapest or best search engine for flights; it's surely the only one I can remember ;) I searched for a flight on 22.08. and back at the 30.08., too. >

Re: [Debconf-team] Andreas Schuldei resigned - Restructure of the DebConf Team

2006-07-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060712 11:31]: > Moray and Marga already stated, that friday "evening" (UTC wise) > doesnt suit them well. Me too. Make that four. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions

Re: [Debconf-team] Andreas Schuldei resigned - Restructure of the DebConf Team

2006-07-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Aschwin van der Woude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060712 10:39]: > [..] But I do suggest not to create a team in a team. [..] >* Main organisor (one or two people) >One or two persons ensuring the whole process proceeds as >planned. They keep track of the total picture, identi

Re: [Debconf-team] Andreas Schuldei resigned - Sponsor handling

2006-07-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060711 23:29]: > The other big area Andreas always did was sponsorship. Thats one of the > most important parts of a DebConf, so we need a good solution > here. Andreas told me that he will give out his sponsor contacts to > whoever is taking this part. H

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf9 in Greece!

2006-07-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * galaxico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060714 12:31]: > We are starting gradually to prepare our candidateship > and to this end the website http://www.debconf.gr > has been set up as a coordinating point for our efforts. Well... nice... I think... Aeh... I'm sorry, I don't get it. I see somethin

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting for decision/discussion about the Team

2006-07-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060714 21:20]: > So, those of us online at this moment thought of Monday, the 24th, 19:00UTC > as a good date, as we had most DebConf6 meetings at mondays. That would be fine with me. (The backup date, too.) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmei

[Debconf-team] DebConf 7 montly meeting - seeking for proper dates

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! During preparation phase for next DebConf meetings have been proven very usefull (and sometimes even entertaining ;) Since some people newly joined the team (or are about to do so), we should see, if our current prefered dating scheme still fits. So far we always met on Mondays at 19:00 UTC.

Re: [Debconf-team] Unfinished tasks from DebConf6

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060725 23:21]: > I am sure there are people who disagree with that, but then it is > my perception that counts in this regard, because it is also my > time and my engery. Yes, it is your time, energy and decission. And yes, we accept your decission.

Re: [Debconf-team] Unfinished tasks from DebConf6

2006-07-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060726 11:11]: > Hold on there, Alexander. With all due respect, I think you are not > seeing things clearly right now. Okay, rereading my mail, I think I should have phrased some passages less provocative (or not in a public at all, but in a private m

Re: [Debconf-team] Unfinished tasks from DebConf6

2006-07-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060728 22:50]: > BTW, now that we are on this: I have quite a bunch of stuff left over > from Debconf - The coffee machine, network and power cables, some > network cards, paper, pens, scotch tape, etc. I have it all at home, > just waiting for us to decide

Re: [Debconf-team] talks

2006-08-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060803 21:11]: > I'd like to know if are there available anywhere divx movie of debconf6 > talks? Most of them are available at http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/ as ogg theora or mpeg1. Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: [Debconf-team] talks

2006-08-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi again! * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060803 23:11]: > > I'd like to know if are there available anywhere divx movie of debconf6 > > talks? > Most of them are available at > http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/ as

[Debconf-team] Users visiting debconf (was: Debian Event Publicity)

2006-08-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
[ adding the debconf-team list to the CCs ] Hi! * Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060804 11:00]: > One question which probably would be of interest to *users*, and which I > didn't see until now: > > Are users supposed/invited to visit Debconf - or is that a DD event > only? Seems like a si

[Debconf-team] Resigning from DebConf

2006-11-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! I think it is about time, that I write this mail. Sorry, maybe I should have taken this step sooner. As you might know, I have recently been quite busy sorting out my live. And while I'm mostly done with that, I see neither an end in me beeing busy nor do I have much time for debconf related

Re: [Debconf-team] How's the debconf6 report coming?

2007-03-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Patty Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070328 18:10]: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:55:21PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > We have a couple of potentially large sponsors waiting on it still, so > > this is getting urgent. Any progress since the last meeting on the > > 19th? > For that matter,

Re: [Debconf-team] How's the debconf6 report coming?

2007-03-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi again! * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070328 19:29]: > > For that matter, is there anything *I* can do to help? Are there notes > > somewhere that perhaps I could formalize into some sort of writing? > Don't know of the others (svn looks quit

[Debconf-team] Re: Press report from DebConf7

2007-04-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070417 17:58]: > in a recent mail exchange I had with one of our sponsors, > Linux-Magazine, the question if one of them wants to visit DebConf7 came > up. Unfortunately that will most likely not work out, but they did ask > if I know someone who would like

(fwd) Re: [Debconf-team] Re: Press report from DebConf7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
in f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Debconf-team] Re: Press report from DebConf7 To: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:30:16 +0200 also sprach Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.04.17.1923 +0200]: > Uff... so far I don't know one

Re: [Debconf-team] T-shirts

2007-04-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Safir Secerovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070429 13:31]: > This sounds good by me, either a different color Ts or an added text > distinguishing DC Team. What about helpers and other volunteers? Yours sincerely, Alexander ___ Debconf-team mailing

Re: [Debconf-team] Proceedings and Credits

2007-05-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070517 17:27]: > 1) I've put a draft copy of the proceedings at > http://people.debian.org/~mhy/dc7.pdf > This isn't the final copy but if people want to look it over and give > comments etc, that'd be good. Two comments (rest is IMHO fine): 1) Please add

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget - current status

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070524 01:47]: > Infrastructure/audio/video > == > > As far as I know, the last major items we need to deal with are > infrastructure-based: > > * Projectors for talk rooms > * PA (audio) > * Banner(s) > > In these cases, we

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-announce] DebConf7 - Attendee list - Proceedings - Assassins game

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070523 17:50]: > You can look at other attendees information using the two menu items at > the left sidebar, named "Attendee list (date/name sort)". The data is > only made available to people with a login and only if you did tick the > above mentioned box

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-announce] DebConf7 - Attendee list - Proceedings - Assassins game

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Martín Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070524 15:58]: > > Wouldn't it make sense to have three lists? The two you allready have, > > and a third one sorted by departure date? > Done, you can find it at https://penta.debconf.org/submission/dc7/attendee_dep Thanks! Yours sincerely, Alexander __

Re: [Debconf-team] better schedule info needed

2007-06-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070602 14:39]: > I started at which leads to > the penta sign-in required page + the dump at /~joerg/. Ahm... both of these sides are IMHO not really usefull. https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/ doesn't list author

Re: [Debconf-team] better schedule info needed

2007-06-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi again! * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070602 20:15]: > And... did someone send an information mail to the speakers, when they > talks have been scheduled? I didn't got anything, and am really > suprised, that I have been scheduled to "Day 10: 18.06.2007

Re: [Debconf-team] better schedule info needed

2007-06-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070604 19:16]: >> [ problems with the schedule ] > [ solution ] Many thanks! Yours sincerely, Alexander ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-press] Debian Day Press Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070610 21:57]: > Please find my latest suggestion at > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc7/press/debday-release.txt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > I am quoting myself. I'd rather not since I'll be press contact, but > I think it's good information to g

[Debconf-team] Final Report (was: Final windup meeting)

2007-06-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070626 18:50]: > We still have a few things to finish up yet, the most important of > which (IMHO) is the post-conference report. The delay for this after > DC6 caused us to lose quite a lot of goodwill with some sponsors, so > I'm keen to make sure this

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] DebConf9

2007-10-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071022 22:54]: > > Now - is there anyone out there who wants to present us another possible > > location? If so please send in a complete checklist[1], reasons, > > everything that speaks for your location. Including a good reason why > > you did not