now would be a good time to go through all the requests for
travel sponsorship.
We can do this as a group of organizers, to both keep the data
confidential, spead the load and keep things objective and fair.
The tasks requires to look at the sponsorship requester and
somehow know if both the amou
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:04:09PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> now would be a good time to go through all the requests for
> travel sponsorship.
>
> We can do this as a group of organizers, to both keep the data
> confidential, spead the load and keep things objective and
now we have the very usefull page with the pics of oaxcapletscsx
up. Thanks to Neil and Gunnar for that.
could now a spanish persons go and recreate the pics with english
text?
those will be used a lot during the conf, so it will not be
wasted time to make them look nice, even when printed.
i th
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > 17:58:47 please read
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf6TravelSponsorship
>
> It looks like we are short on budget.
> Maybe we can remove the formal dinner DPL talk, and have that time slot
> for rent, and move Mar
Hi!
would it be ok to have the account where donations should go in
the -team svn repository or even here on the mailinglist?
I would also need the shipping address for heavy and big and
valuable goods like servers, filers, switches etc
at the hotel, plus a date when they can arrive there.
s
hi!
please find out and fill in financial details (like the cost of
the van, daytrip details, formal dinner costs/person) in the
budget.
while going through the list of things from debconf5 (which i
partly left in the budget) please also make arrangements with car
rentals, printshops, tshirt manu
hi!
i talked with gunnar yesterday and he told me that he wondered
who those 7(?) guys are who registerd in comas recently and why a
bunch of pupils would want to organize debconf7. I bet most of
you have similar questions.
I did mention süd tirol a couple of times but never told (a lot)
more of
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:41:35PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> hi!
>
> please find out and fill in financial details (like the cost of
> the van, daytrip details, formal dinner costs/person) in the
> budget.
>
> while going through the list of things from debconf5 (whi
the company with these cool programmable wifi barcode scanners
http://amltd.com can not lend us any for debconf6.
could you guys try to turn up something similar elsewhere, so
that i can approach them and ask them to GIVE THEM TO US?
i will be traveling and wont have best net connection in the ne
There already two pages in the wiki listing popular features
for the conference management system
http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf6OrgSoftware
http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf5ConferenceManagementSystem?action=edit
(the formatting of this page is not up to par, so look at the
edit mode for some struct
i am not quite sure where i read it (sorry, overdose of mail!),
but i seem to recall that it is beeing considered to have all the
hardware stuff (servers, switches, netapp filer, etc) to be
shipped to gunnar's place instead of directly to the location or
storage nearby. Then we would transport it i
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.
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Here's another e-mail that I believe was missed from a couple weeks ago.
We'd like to submit our proposal for a talk, but it appears t
now intel inquires about the notebooks and asks how many we would
need. i would like to look at munin.debconf.org and give them
that number. could someone please write a munin receipt for the
expected computers etc? Luciano?
intel also wonders if we have a place in mexico where the server
could st
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:13:10PM -0800, Manuel Flores wrote:
> Hi, am a student in the University of El Salvador in Central America. Iam a
> Debian user logged in debconf.org and i would like to attend the debconf in
> Mexico, but i dont have the money. So i applied for sponsorship when i
> re
* Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-15 20:48:04]:
> 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 & pape
i contemplate to invite LWN to debconf again.
their trip should be reasonable cheap (as they come from
colorado) and we have that offer of sponsored trips from the US
from one company (only good for ~2kUS, unfortunatly).
this would hopefully give us some good and favourable press
coverage. This w
please fill in your latest/best cost estimates for *everything*
into the budget real soon now we need to know where we stand.
please also add costs for optional stuff like the van.
things to pay that i can think of right now:
van
insurances
uplink
ethernet cable and crimping equipment
formal dinne
the subject says it all. any fundis to the front to save the day?
(c:
no, i dont really expect help here and will try to talk them out
of it with reason. this is just to give you some perspective. i
expect more of these requests to come.
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* Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-21 15:06:39]:
> Does mysql really have something to say to developers, or would it be
> something targetted to users? The latter would probably not recieve
> much interest during debconf, and for debianday they would need
> someone who speaks es_MX, right
there appear to be no other linux based handheld wifi barcode
scanners besides the ones we wont get. there are 3-4kE expensive
MSDOS 7.0 based ones from italy, which i am not sure i would
want. they are also the size of a small suitcase and might
require special training to hold longer then 5min.
* Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 12:41:57]:
> Now, why do we need a wireless barcode scanner? If we will depend on
> having a laptop nearby, we can go for a regular, cheap one (we are
> looking towards buying some in my institute, I have seen some as cheap
> as US$70, $100 is a realist
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:28:49AM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > no, i dont really expect help here
I meant that i just send this for information and did not hope
for people's votes or suggestions on how to tell them off since
the cfp deadline was over alr
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Hello Andreas,
>-Original Message-
>From: Andreas Schuldei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:49 AM
>To: Jennings, Michael
>Subject: Re: DebConf Paper submission
>
>* Jennings, Michael <[EMAIL
i now added the option to add pesos to the budget spreadsheet.
it is not complete yet, since i only added it (as an example) to
the "expected expenses" group of the housing page. the other
pages (and the "spent" group on the housing
page) where local currency will be used should also get this
colu
hi, i will be on vacation (skiing in Trysil, .no) until next
saturday. i hope to be able to read mail and see what happens on
irc.
there is a chance that i cant make the platform deadline for the
DPL election for that reason.
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i have a date collision tonight with the irc meeting and an other
group i am part of. can we move our meeting 2h later tonight, so
that it starts at 21:00UTC?
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:12:15PM +, Moray Allan wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 20:16 +0100, Meike Reichle wrote:
> > Hi Gunnar,
> >
> > > Are you sure? The data looks legitimate. He is not yet on Comas, but
> > > today a second Nigerian (John Sunday) registered - and asked for help
> > > wit
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:58:50AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jair just sent me the pricing for the Cablemás lines:
>
> - Setup fee: MX$285
> - 1Mbps service (per month): MX$618
> - 2Mbps service (per month): MX$1770
> - Early cancellation fee: MX$290
> - Installation time: 5 or 6 workin
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:56:35PM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> El d?a 28/02/2006 a 14:19 Gunnar Wolf escribi?...
>
>
> > Yes, I also liked a lot how that system worked - Now, the down side is
> > the logistical cost: First, we must make sure to include the proper
> > tickets (with the proper dates
please complete the agenda on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf6Meetings
with your items.
it will take place at 20UTC on #debconf-team on irc.debian.org.
Please attend!
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ok, i now entered a few more or less optimistic guesses regarding
money that we might be able to get from xandros and linspire.
some others say they are still trying (sun-wah, strato, siemens
promised something but does not return calls or mail...) but i
dont expect much more at this point.
So i d
I suggest we start the reconfimation periode (lasting ~2 weeks)
as soon as possible, in order to not let in too many people in
the last minute.
I would like to have the sponsored participation freeze stick
this time, without people sneaking in after the fact.
That means that we need to make coma
the current draft for the reconfirmation mail can be found in
svn of debconf6-data: mail/reconfirmation
please add your suggestions and changes there if at all possible.
currently it says:
==
Hi!
Thank you very much for registering for Debconf6!
We would like to ask you to
Could someone please go through the not accepted talks, round
tables and workshops and mark them as "rejected", please? We send
out a mail to the speakers a long time ago that they should
switch them to bofs if they would be interested in having them. I
think it would be good to remove them before
please check out the rewriten reconfirmation mail in svn and fix
any problems you see. i will try to send it at ~18:45 local time
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
==
Hi!
Thank you very much for registering for Debconf6!
We would like to ask you to reconfirm your attendance until April
i now checked all the eps logos that i could lay my hands on into
svn. they are in
URL: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debconf6-data/sponsors/logos
what is still missing are the IBM, bytemark, Amersol, Nokia, new
Intel and the Pedagogical National University logo.
I contacted Intel and Nokia. Coul
with some effords i got the responsible person at netapp on the
phone yesterday. we were both shocked and bewildered when we
noticed that due to a miscommunication they intended to pay 5kUS
and not 45kUS as we expected. He will now sponsor us with 10k,
and it i belive him that that hurts him as muc
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:23:52PM -0600, Jorge del Conde wrote:
> Hi Lenz, Andreas,
>
> I would be more than happy to attend DebConf2006, and I have no problems
> giving a MySQL talk or a BoF session while around.
>
> Are there any topics any of you have in mind of this, or should I choose the
Hi!
i just now try to find all the people who are missing from our
confirmed list. people i found so far were some intel people (who
give talks at debian day and bofs at debconf), a netapp guy who
wanted to come, the aruba engineer who wants to set up the
network and some people who's flights we s
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:30:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Andreas Schuldei dijo [Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:26:44PM +0200]:
> > Hi!
> >
> > i just now try to find all the people who are missing from our
> > confirmed list. people i found so far were some intel pe
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:47PM -0700, Ted Walther wrote:
> Please talk to the hotel kitchen.
been there, done that.
> What I am asking is very reasonable,
> and any European or North American kitchen would have no problem at all
> providing the type of meat I require.
kosher food is very ad
hi!
In order to put up the preliminary talks/bofs schedule we need to know
some corner data: how many rooms are there for talks, how many for bofs,
how big are they, when are they available and when are the meals?
I would be very welcome if don got that list soon so he could produce a
preliminary
hi!
In order to put up the preliminary talks/bofs schedule we need to know
some corner data: how many rooms are there for talks, how many for bofs,
how big are they, when are they available and when are the meals?
I would be very welcome if don got that list soon so he could produce a
preliminary
hi.
after cutting breakfast and limiting ourselfs to 240 ppl we have some
spare money.
I also exchanged several mails with the intel person who was intending
to do translate the intel talk to spanish. We noticed that he never did
that before and would prefere to go for the save "one sentence at
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:15:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I recently heard/discussed about the short money problems and the
> impact it has on communication with participants to the conference,
> especially when it comes at the org. team making requests as tentatives to
> lower the budge
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:17:12PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Well, as a followup to Andreas mail, my intent is not having all this
> being re-explained in the team mailing list (even if that mailing list
> is opened to anyone).
>
> I'm more sharing with you people that, whatever justified
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:15:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I recently heard/discussed about the short money problems and the
> impact it has on communication with participants to the conference,
> especially when it comes at the org. team making requests as tentatives to
> lower the budge
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:58:02PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Whats the plan to get that connected ? Will we setup a asterisk server or
> something else ? And who will set it up ? :)
they come and set it up for us. When? is the date in the network wiki
page right?
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 May 2006, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> >
> >> I didn't see my Ubuntu report-back talk on the schedule?
> >>
> >
> > Alexander Schmehl told me that your talk and three others were
> > suppo
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:21:53PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
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ouch! i am still struggeling with my new mail setup and wrongly replied
to -team (thinking it came from there).
do we have any kids for first aid? and are there any kits those kids
could use in the case of an emergency?
i guess this joke gets lame after a few years.
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we could first collect questions and then pick the ones that we find relevant
in general and for next year.
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Hi everyone!
please look at http://wiki.debian.org/DebConfLocationCheckList. Feel free
to expand on it or mail to this list about changing priorities of the
questions. (I set the priorities based on my own best judgement, and you
may have other ideas about priorities, so we should find out how to
Hi everyone!
please look at http://wiki.debian.org/DebConfLocationCheckList. Feel free
to expand on it or mail to this list about changing priorities of the
questions. (I set the priorities based on my own best judgement, and you
may have other ideas about priorities, so we should find out how to
* Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060606 15:13]:
> Hi Team,
>
> the IRC Meeting to decide about the next DebConf Location will be held
> on
>
>Monday, 19th June in #debconf-team on OFTC
i have mixed feelings about this, as i like to see people take
the initiative and move things along, an
Here i forward a mail that AJ sent in reply to Jörgs delegation
mail.
Please read and digest it. Your comments and thoughts are
appreciated.
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:31:46PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> So, I propose to delegate [...]
> as the DebConf organizers[1], respon
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [060610 08:31]:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:31:46PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > So, I propose to delegate [...]
> > as the DebConf organizers[1], responsible to organize the yearly
> > Conference. The DPL grants the DebConf Organizers the right to use
* Safir Secerovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060618 11:22]:
> I was told by Bosnian Foreign Office that we could ask from them to issue
> you a visa in one of the European coutries, say in Rome, Italy or
> somewhere convenient for you, on your way to here, and they apparently
> would issue you a visa on
* Moray Allan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060619 12:34]:
> Out of interest, was Guntupalli rejected by post/web or after an
> interview?
post, afaik.
> What were the reasons stated for rejection?
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* Josh Berkus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060621 08:49]:
> Debconf planners,
>
> At the SPI meeting today Neil raised the possibility that Debian and
> PostgreSQL, both being members of SPI, could hold a joint conference. I'm
> certainly warm to this idea.
The idea came up after someone approached us
* Anthony Towns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060622 17:25]:
> Andreas, Alexander and Joerg will shortly be visiting both locations to
> quiz the organising teams and see the proposed venues close up.
I would also like to use the opportunity for "knowledge
transfer" to the local teams about what we learne
* Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060626 22:38]:
> Hey team,
>
> as many already mentioned it would be nice to have www.debconf.org as a
> general "portal-like" site, not just a redirect to the running DebConf.
>
> So I just had a little chat with our webmaster, and we basically agreed
> on th
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060703 15:39]:
> Hi,
>
> In two week's time, I'll be visiting Hokkaido, Japan, and I'll be
> meeting with munincipal government officials. They will require some
> official-looking description of past Debconf and future plans.
> Do you guys have something whi
Hi Safir!
in edinburgh we asked who would be capable of taking over the
local lead in case moray ran off with his CD collection [1].
Moray pointed out neil and kevin as possible capable and
motivated replacements (perhaps more? i only wrote down
these at that point).
Who in Sarajevo could take o
Hi!
we have now looked at the possible/likely venues of debconf7. I
expect reports to surface soon on this mailinglist.
it turns out that only one of the options would not require us to
come up with an alternative way of funding debconf (one of the
ones in sarajevo, which involves the arabic cult
I will keep the file in svn updated. you can read it on the web here:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debconf-data/dc7/venues/?rev=0&sc=0
hot
cross culture
bullet and granate holes in streets and houses
Minarets, mosks, women rights, balkans
Student dormitory
=
capacity 900 beds
2 me
I will keep the file in svn updated. the latest version is also
available on the web at
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Impressions
===
tall, old houses with stately, manorial look
traffic on the other side of the road.
lots of cobbled streets
rain? - rain!
* Amaya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 10:08]:
> Safir Secerovic wrote:
> > but they will probaby require for men and women to not to very
> > something to short or to tight in their premises.
>
> That rules out nudism and skinny dipping, I guess.
and we dont really expect those in the auditorium. e
* Amaya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 10:18]:
> Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > and we dont really expect those in the auditorium. especially without
> > water.
>
> I heard there is a pool ;)
that is in hotel terme, not in the auditorim. the auditorium,
hacklabs and food place wo
* Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 14:51]:
> I owe you a bear,
since safir might not drink beer it was very kind to offer a bear
instead.
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* Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 19:38]:
> Have you checked with Tram? I'm asking it again since in Valencia and
> Catellon we had to ask for the lift to use for the tram. The lift is
> portable and then not visible. Might be good to check it.
sarajevo got used trams after the war fro
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [060704 15:53]:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 06:57:41PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > if we limit local sponsorship to e.g. 200 people to keep costs
> > under control
>
> The first step shouldn't be "limiting&qu
* Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 15:02]:
> Beside stuff like the check in procedure at the arabic culture center, or the
> fact, that we would need to wait for their decision if they would like to
> host us and similar other smaller disadvantages, the main point speaking
> against th
* Safir Secerovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060704 21:24]:
> This is true up to a certain point in time, I mean, these venues cannot wait
> for us to choose one of them forever. We would need to make our choice some
> months in advance and sign precontracts which obliges them and us to respect
> what
* David Moreno Garza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060705 01:13]:
> Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > 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 that would be money they need to spend anyway, so th
* Margarita Manterola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060705 11:03]:
> > 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 to
* Jesus Climent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060705 11:23]:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:20:12AM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> >
> > appart from that i talked with the flight expert in a bigger
> > travel agency and he did some research and thinks that flights to
> > sarajev
* Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060705 11:59]:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:58, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > We could come up with a "shuttle" service for the participants
> > from/to the culture center during the day, so they dont need to
> > wal
* Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060705 12:08]:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 09:07, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Monday 03 July 2006 18:57, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > > it turns out that only one of the options would not require us to
> > > come up w
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [060705 16:51]:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:15:59PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > Option 2 - Student Dormitory together with Cultural Centre
> > ==
>
> > On the way to the Arabic culture center[31]
* Bdale Garbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060705 20:42]:
> As I read through scrollbacks and email trying to catch up before the
> meeting today, I have a few thoughts I'd like to throw into the
> conversation. In particular, I think it is important to decide
> somewhere in this decision process what ou
I detect some undercurrents in the social makeup of debconf, but
i cant put my finger on what it is.
i would like to hear from you what you think that it might be,
when it started and where it comes from.
To me this is a serious issue and i think it has the potential of
bringing this whole thing
i guess that the time of debconf as we know it is over. AJ has
promoted a for-money debconf, where people pay real money for
what they get. in mails to this list he outlined his planns of
how the delegation would happen to the local team etc to morph
debconf in a second linuxconf au.
After getting
* Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060725 14:57]:
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>
> On 07/25/2006 06:45 AM, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> [...]
> > It's somewhat unclear to me who is running the show at the moment and
> > how the above tasks fit into the overal
* Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060725 22:50]:
> On 10726 March 1977, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
>
> >>Could we still ask Andreas help on these [1]list? I think it
> >> should be a good way to have a more complete list and to find out
> >> the right sta
* Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060726 00:17]:
> 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
&g
* Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060803 16:54]:
> Hello Team,
Hello Team!
my personal perception with some of jörg's emails has been that
they were polarizing, agitating and distoring. I would expect you
as a team to achive more if you find people with better
communication skills and more dip
* Jimmy Kaplowitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060814 22:03]:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:38:19PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > my personal perception with some of jörg's emails has been that
> > they were polarizing, agitating and distoring. I would e
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