[Debconf-team] penta is ready for the CfP for debconf 10

2010-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- a few of us (Hydroxide, Clint, edrz, MrBeige, and myself) stayed after the meeting today and sorted out some minor pentabarf updates to address the issues raised by the dc10 CfP. in particular: * we removed all mention of tracks by removing the two existing tracks (it had offered "d

[Debconf-team] update about tracks

2010-04-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey folks-- At the local team meeting yesterday, we talked a bit about the idea of grouping some of the debconf talks (and other events) into thematically-focused tracks [0]. To follow through with this, we'll need coordinators for every track we run. Hans and i came up with the following 6 sug

Re: [Debconf-team] update about tracks

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/26/2010 03:35 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:38:00AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> Just wanted to report back to the whole debconf team on the progress on >> this front. If we get no takers for track coordinators before the talk >> subm

[Debconf-team] Fwd: Any chance I could gain access to something other than the all events page?

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey debconf folks-- Sam Hartman had the attached request; he's doing good work putting together a debian enterprise track. is there a way we can get him an interface to the talks that would be more convenient for him? --dkg --- Begin Message --- The only page I can use to look at event

[Debconf-team] casting a wider net for the talks team

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- Right now, as far as i know, the talks team for debconf 10 consists of 5 people, all of whom are (more or less) local to NYC: me, micah, hans, kris, and biella. We welcome more members! Members of the talks team all receive copies of mail sent to the alias, which we are using for ta

[Debconf-team] Tracks and Track Coordinators for Debconf 10

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey Folks-- As you may know, we are trying to organize some thematic groupings of talks at debconf 10. We're calling these groupings "tracks". http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Tracks i put a call out on planet.debian.org recently asking for people to coordinate a track if they're intere

Re: [Debconf-team] "Talks Selection Retreat Day" - Tues, May 4th, tentative

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
[ please respect Followup-To: debconf-team@lists.debconf.org -- everyone interested in talks should be subscribed on that list already, and talks selection is not local business ] On 04/30/2010 03:03 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Ok folks, its time for the big "Talks Selection Day" Accor

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Java track at DebConf 10

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Pablo-- On 04/30/2010 02:40 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote: > Question for DebConf-Team: if we get Rich Hickey to give a talk, does he need > to go through the regular talk submission process? (We clearly won't get him > to submit before the talk deadline ;-) What is the process you envision for >

[Debconf-team] debian community outreach track

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi Andy and Frank-- I notice that someone anonymous has edited the description of the debian community outreach track here: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Tracks I'm hoping it was one of you two ;) I'm happy to see active work on the track! I have two concerns, though: (a) it seems

[Debconf-team] debian enterprise track status

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Sam-- Thanks for all the work you've been doing soliciting and vetting talks for the Enterprise track for DebConf 10. For the parts of that work which you feel are OK being public, it would be helpful if there was a way that interested people (from the talks team and elsewhere) could get a qui

Re: [Debconf-team] Coordinating a track on Media and Art and Debian at debconf 10?

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Reinhard and the rest of the debian multimedia folks-- On 05/01/2010 02:41 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 20:21:49 (CEST), Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> Hi IOhannes, Paul, and interested folk on the debian multimedia >> packaging team, > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Coordinating a track on Media and Art and Debian at debconf 10?

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Adrian-- On 05/01/2010 09:03 PM, Adrian Knoth wrote: > I'm not sure what "track coordinator" means, but I think I could help a > bit. If it's about being session chair, planning talks or stuff like > this, I'd be in. thanks! we'd love to have you working on this if you're up for it. > Could

Re: [Debconf-team] "Talks Selection Retreat Day" - Tues, May 4th, tentative

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/03/2010 05:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > The key idea of the retreat is for local people to get together to be > able to talk about the apps and then we'll enter our ratings into > penta. Then all who want to contribute on penta can do so, and we'll > wait for all that. But it

Re: [Debconf-team] casting a wider net for the talks team

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/30/2010 02:33 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > The current members of the talks team are listed at: > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Teams > > It currently says "+ others", an ambiguity i plan to remove shortly. If > you want to help out the talks

Re: [Debconf-team] "Talks Selection Retreat Day" - Tues, May 4th, tentative

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > That's quite easy to do; I have an email from Joerg Jaspert to last year's > talks team (which I was on) explaining how the software works If this could be posted publicly someplace (a web page?) that'd be great! Is there any reason this needs to b

Re: [Debconf-team] Tracks and Track Coordinators for Debconf 10

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Anthony-- Sorry, i just got this message right now (not sure why, but maybe the debconf-team queue was backlogged?) On 04/30/2010 05:32 PM, Anthony Towns wrote: > So there are two tracks I think would be really interesting: > > * Debian on mobile devices (phones, slates, netbooks) > * Deb

Re: [Debconf-team] casting a wider net for the talks team

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/04/2010 12:44 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > I can help with this. I was in the talks team 2 years ago, and I guess it is > same rating system? great, thanks! welcome to the talks team. i have never done this before, but i assume it's the same rating system used in previous years. Richard just

[Debconf-team] broken links and unauthenticated content in https://penta.debconf.org/

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey debconf folks-- Just doing some web site triage on https://penta.debconf.org/, and found three problems: 0) the X.509 certificate chain was mis-ordered (it is supposed to be , but was being served as ). Ganneff just fixed this. Thanks, Ganneff! 1) the "DebConf resources" link on the front

Re: [Debconf-team] broken links and unauthenticated content in https://penta.debconf.org/

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/05/2010 06:11 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> 1) the "DebConf resources" link on the front page points to >> https://penta.debconf.org/resources.shtml, which is a 404 Not Found. >> Maybe it's su

[Debconf-team] Fwd: Talks team access now in place

2010-05-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi debconf folks-- Hydroxide meant to send the attached announcement to the whole team so that we all know who has access to what capabilities. I'm re-sending it on his behalf Please speak up if you think you should have access which has not been granted. --dkg --- Begin Message --- Hi,

[Debconf-team] talks team questions

2010-05-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- I'm hoping to give a reportback from the talks team later this weekend, as i offered in the meeting today. I also want to reiterate a call for help if anyone else wants to review talks. If you can even review a dozen talks, please reply here and we'll try to get you reviewer privs.

[Debconf-team] penta ranking calculation metrics

2010-05-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I'm concerned that the rating metric is wrong in penta when reviewers leave one of the three categories in a "don't know" state. for example, if i say "+" for all three categories (relevance, actuality, acceptance), the score will be 50. (50 + 50 + 50)/3 if i say "+" for relevance and acceptance,

[Debconf-team] talks team reportback

2010-05-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey debconf folks-- This is my followup report on the talks team status for debconf 10. The talks review and acceptance process is late, but we're working on it. By this coming Wednesday, we expect to have each submission reviewed by at least two people, hopefully more. Those who are local will

[Debconf-team] Fwd: number of talks to be accepted?

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
re.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:46:38PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > Thanks for doing this analysis! I think this touches on venue issues > too; would you mind if we took the discussion public to d

[Debconf-team] Talks team meeting at 23:00 UTC

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi debconf people-- This is a reminder that the dc10 talks team is meeting today on IRC (and local folks in person as well) at 23:00 UTC (7pm NYC time). We'll meet on #debconf-team -- if it is too noisy there or we're disturbing other organizers who don't want to hear about talks, we can move the

[Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The talks team had a meeting on #debconf-team this evening. Thanks to everyone who showed up. meetbot summary (and links to logs) are here: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2010/debconf-team.2010-05-26-23.07.html I wanted to raise two distinct issues with the broader debconf team from ou

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 08:47 AM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:01:20AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> There was quite a bit of discussion about having a select few events >> scheduled with no other concurrent events. > > What are the criteria for these &

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 11:01 AM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> What do you think the criteria should be? Or would you prefer no >> plenaries at all? > > I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet s

Re: [Debconf-team] penta ranking calculation metrics

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/22/2010 06:41 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I'm concerned that the rating metric is wrong in penta when reviewers > leave one of the three categories in a "don't know" state. [...] > Any thoughts on this? Am i misunderstanding something? OK, i've looke

[Debconf-team] dc10 page headers need updating

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The headers on the dc10 schedule pages need updating; they still show dc9 headers afaict: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc10 I have no idea who can fix this, but hopefully a ticket will help keep it on the radar. --dkg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 12:20 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a > magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and > not only DebConf Day 1?) indeed, thanks or bringing this up, Ana. Is there a good link to pint

Re: [Debconf-team] Debian Day ( or Open Day if you prefer )

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 01:13 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: >> On 05/28/2010 12:20 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> >>> The Debian Day has been announced in 1st August in some free ad we got in a >>> magazine, so looks like we should have it. (BTW, penta should say this and >>> not only DebConf Day 1?) > > I think w

Re: [Debconf-team] TALKS: advocating broader relevance

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi micah-- Thanks for bringing this up! On 05/28/2010 01:33 PM, micah wrote: > Personally, I think Debconf can both get a bit boring if the 'relevance' > is applied too strictly, and too de-focused if it is applied to > broadly. To make a great conference there should be a balance, and I > feel l

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/01/2010 10:38 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> > Another advantage [to having plenaries] might be to communicate specific >> > concerns to the >> > broader group, for example if we have a wrap-up session wi

Re: [Debconf-team] [talks team] List of accepted talks

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/01/2010 10:07 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > One of the things we wanted to use to outreach to the Columbia > community was a list of talks - basically, announcing a conference and > linking to some sample talks is better than just saying "there will be > talks". So one of the things that some l

[Debconf-team] talks team meeting 2010-06-02_19:00 NYC (23:00 UTC)

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey folks-- as previous mails from micah and pablo pointed out, we are having our talks team "final cut" meeting today (wednesday, 2nd June) at 7pm NYC time (23:00 UTC). Like last week, we'll be meeting on #debconf-team, and moving to #debconf-talks if we find we're disturbing folks on #debconf-t

[Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi debconf folks-- Ever write a bunch of code to solve a problem, get to the end of it, and then realize there was a much better way you should have done it? The dc10 talks team had a long meeting tonight [0], which i'm now pretty convinced we did the Wrong Way, thanks mainly to my so-called "lea

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/03/2010 03:47 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Ever write a bunch of code to solve a problem, get to the end of it, and > then realize there was a much better way you should have done it? > > The dc10 talks team had a long meeting tonight [0], which i'm now pretty >

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Ana-- Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. On 06/03/2010 09:14 AM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:47:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> In writing up the mail for the "not accepted for scheduling" proposals, >> it became apparent that we would

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/03/2010 01:42 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > I've helped organized a bunch of conferences and selection processes and > one thing that is clear is that the process never is anywhere close to > where you'd like to be, largely because you are basically learning how > to do it while you ar

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Micah-- Thanks, i think your mail describes what happened and why we're in a tough/confused state right now. I also like your proposal, though i have two outstanding questions about it before i feel like going ahead with it in full: On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote: > I would prop

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/03/2010 03:27 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I also like your proposal, though i have two outstanding questions about > it before i feel like going ahead with it in full: ugh. This is certainly not my decision to make, and i did not mean to imply that it was. The above shoul

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/03/2010 04:00 PM, micah anderson wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:27:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > wrote: >> On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote: >>> 2. send a reject notice to the bottom 20 that did not make the cut due >>> to the ratings >&

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/03/2010 03:27 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote: >> I would propose that the best way forward, at this point, taking into >> considerations all the discussions here and on IRC would be this: >> >> 1. send an acce

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/04/2010 12:37 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote: > We appreciate your interest and the time you invested in putting > together your proposed event. Our talk selection committee felt > your submission on its current form would not attract enough > interest among the DebConf attendees and i'd rather say

[Debconf-team] RFH: scheduling DebConf10

2010-06-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- at the global-team meeting today, i volunteered to work on scheduling the accepted talks for DebConf10. I've never done this before, and would appreciate any advice or assistance anyone has to offer. I'll almost certainly need reasonable liaisons from the venue team, the video team,

[Debconf-team] RFH: coordinating ad-hoc events

2010-06-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi folks-- I'm going to try to work out a reasonable mechanism for helping people arrange ad-hoc events during the conference. This will be something like a wiki on which people can sign up for open slots for day X on day X-1, which then gets published/announced somehow at some reasonable cutoff

Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: scheduling DebConf10

2010-06-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/07/2010 02:44 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:32:41AM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: >>> We've promised a schedule by June 15th, 10 days away. Advice from >>> anyone who has done this before would be awesome. > > Didn't I gave advise last week or the week before last we

Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: scheduling DebConf10

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/09/2010 11:59 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Jun 5, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote: >> I was involved in doing the scheduling for LCA 2010. What we did >> was to write every talk onto a post-it note, and then we drew up a whiteboard >> with columns for each day, and within

Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: scheduling DebConf10

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Andrew-- On 06/05/2010 06:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote: > As an alternative though, I can provide accounts on a caldav server. We > can then create a calendar for each room, and events for each accepted > talk, and move them around in much the same manner using a CalDAV client > such as Evoluti

[Debconf-team] DebConf10 scheduling is available

2010-06-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I completed the scheduling for DebConf10. You can all hate me for it now ;) The schedule starts each day at 10:00am, and concludes at 5:30pm or 6:30pm, depending on the day. Already, some concerns were raised on IRC about only having a 1hr gap for lunch. If we want that lunch gap to be 1.5hrs i

[Debconf-team] longer lunch! [was: Re: DebConf10 scheduling is available]

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/16/2010 07:09 AM, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Traditionally DebConf has been pretty lightly scheduled because of the > huge value that comes from the people meeting and communicating over the > meals, in the corridors, in the hacklab, and through the evenings. Enough people have echoed this sen

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 scheduling is available

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/16/2010 07:09 AM, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Herding 250-odd DD's into a group photo does not fit in 30 minutes. > You're lucky if it fits into an hour. Do you know who will be taking > the photo? I've done it in the past, and am happy to do so again. Aigars Mahinovs (cc'ed here) added the i

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 scheduling is available

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/16/2010 01:45 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Yes, I will handle that. Just give me a time slot and I'll try to find > the best possible location among the available places and check the > light conditions during the previous days, so that there are no > surprises. That sounds very reasonable.

[Debconf-team] Cheese [was: Re: DebConf10 scheduling is available]

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/18/2010 11:31 AM, Clint Adams wrote: > There are many other cheese shops where you can get excellent cheese > for high prices. I'm just changing the Subject of the thread here so i don't have a heart attack every morning when i see a dozen new messages about debconf10 scheduling. cheers, an

[Debconf-team] proposed talks scheduling adjustment

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- On IRC, biella brought forward a concern about the scheduling of Eben Moglen's talk. To address it, I'd like to propose Plan A: a shift of the schedules to accomodate Eben's request to have his talk earlier than day 6: * move eben's talk (641) from day 6 to day 3 -- keep same time a

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: DebConf11 official reconfirmation of the winner

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/08/2010 09:32 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Quito, Equator, München, Germany and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina at least in en_US, the first country mentioned is spelled Ecuador, not Equator. --dkg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/08/2010 12:05 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > I was looking at the talk schedule and hours for John Jay (cafeteria), > which we were likely going to use during debconf. > > B: 0700-0945 > L: 1130-1400 > D: 1700-1900 > > Lunch overlaps well, with or without the changes from Monday's global > meet

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/08/2010 06:49 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > How about, rescheduling M: > > * move pre-lunch events 30 minutes earlier and add 1 slot (start at > 9:30, end at 12:30), move post-luch events 1 hour earlier (start at > 14:00) and DO NOT have the half hour break from 16 to 16:30 (end at > 18:0

Re: [Debconf-team] UPDATE we can sponsor 70 % of queue B now and 100% queue A (proposal inside)

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/08/2010 12:17 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ please Cc:-me on replies ] > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:20:26PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> I added to the budget the donations from FFIS (~680USD) and we have >> a drop out in queue A. This is 2000USD more, that means more money >> because

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/08/2010 08:48 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > wrote: >> On 07/08/2010 06:49 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: >>> How about, rescheduling M: >>> >>> * move pre-lunch events 30 minutes earlier and add

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/12/2010 02:31 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 09:55:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> To recap the proposals: >> >> (0 is the status quo) >> >> 0: 10:00-12:00, LUNCH, 14:00-16:00, Break, 16:30-19:30 >> >> M:

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/13/2010 05:24 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:19:28PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> On 07/12/2010 02:31 AM, Richard Darst wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 09:55:52AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >>> >>>> To re

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/14/2010 03:50 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> None has been selected. schultmc was the only person good enough to >> voice an opinion (he prefers Z). Of course, i'm assuming that marga >> prefers M. > >

[Debconf-team] dealing with late penta event submissions

2010-07-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- I swear i am not trying to open a can of worms here. We had one big (messy, disastrous) round of talk reviews, accepted some talks, and encouraged folks to organize not-accepted talks on-the-fly during the conference with whatever unconference system we set up. However, as predicted

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/14/2010 06:29 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:12:23AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> Could one person (only!) with write access please make this change and >> report back when it is done? I could webmonkey click change it all, but >>

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] JJ Food summary: 2010-07-12

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/15/2010 07:22 AM, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > On 07/15/2010 02:11 AM, Richard Darst wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In order to reserve John Jay, we need to do it something like _now_... >> >> Is anyone opposed to brian and I working to reserve John Jay for >> W/Th/F DebCamp and M/T/Th/F DebConf under the

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/15/2010 01:16 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Regarding the Schedule, it looks fine, BUT there shouldn't be > something scheduled at the same time that the group photo. This was > scheduled during the afternoon break and it's now parallel to 2 other > talks. Whoops, you're right. the prev

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/15/2010 03:30 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Micah is correct. It can also be a 30-45m slot just before lunch or > dinner, so that impact of delaying people for 5-10 minutes extra is > minimal. Any preference for a 9:30-10:30 slot vs. 11:30-12:30 ? I've cleared up space on Thursday morning.

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/15/2010 05:04 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > The later spot, please. It would be bad to loose a bunch of people due > to the early scheduling. > I will try to find a place in the shade for the shoot (when I'll be on-site). > > If it makes scheduling easier, 12:00-12:30 should be sufficient tim

Re: [Debconf-team] server settup and network testing

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/16/2010 02:06 AM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > -we need a homer (or somewhere else) to run dc10.debconf.org DNS (amongst > other things (but far fewer other things than most years)) I can bring a low-power machine to run DNS if you like. I don't have anything spare that remotely approache

Re: [Debconf-team] Weekend talk scheduling

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/15/2010 12:02 PM, Moray Allan wrote: > I think changing the schedule depending on the day will confuse people, so > unless there's a strong positive reason to change I'd suggest we keep things > fixed. With my scheduler hat on, i'm going to agree with Moray here. I also don't think we want

Re: [Debconf-team] Please move Debconf video training to beginning

2010-07-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Michael-- On 07/07/2010 10:24 AM, Michael J Daniel wrote: > Please consider moving the Debconf video training from the 6th day to > the 1st day. > This information will be more valuable to participants at the beginning > of the conference, > rather than when the conference is almost over. Ar

Re: [Debconf-team] Please move Debconf video training to beginning

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/20/2010 01:31 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > My thought was mainly to have them in a schedule somewhere. It didn't > occur to me that penta wouldn't allow the same event to have multiple > instances. I'll put in several training sessions to be scheduled during > DebCamp. Thanks. please

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/15/2010 05:51 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/15/2010 05:04 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: >> The later spot, please. It would be bad to loose a bunch of people due >> to the early scheduling. [...] > I lean toward the consistent schedule, but i'm open to feedback

Re: [Debconf-team] Penta

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I got the following message about penta from a friend. Could someone with write access to the web site please look at fixing them? (note that this user does not have the SPI root CA in their certificate list) thanks, --dkg On 07/20/2010 06:18 PM, a friend wrote: > A blog directed me st

Re: [Debconf-team] has my presentation being scheduled?

2010-07-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Daniel-- On 07/21/2010 05:17 AM, D M German wrote: > I submitted a proposal for a presentation and it was supposed to be > accepted. yes, your talk is on 2010-08-03 from 11:30 to 12:30 local time in Davis Auditorium. For some reason, it had been marked as "not public", which is why it was no

Re: [Debconf-team] Nametags design

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/22/2010 04:23 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote: > For those who have two keys I think I'm only going to include the last 20 > characters of each key's fingerprint. The QR code is too complex otherwise > (which makes it harder for mobile phones and other devices to scan it.) For two keys, if spac

Re: [Debconf-team] Please move Debconf video training to beginning

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/23/2010 08:55 AM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > I created 676 and scheduled it for Tuesday the 27th in Interschool. Thanks for doing this, Eric. > However, it shows up neither in the logged-in nor the exported versions > of the schedule. I can create the others (Thursday in Davis ... maybe

Re: [Debconf-team] Nametags design

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/23/2010 11:32 AM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:26:52PM +0200, Judit Foglszinger wrote: >>> Isn't the email address the only useful unique identifier we have for >>> people? >> >> Isn't the nickname? > > Nop, no everybody is in IRC or have a Debian login. I would like leav

[Debconf-team] temperature in Carleton Lounge

2010-07-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I had a couple frustrating calls with Columbia facility about trying to make the temperature more reasonable. It's currently about 65°F, and it would be more reasonable to have it targeted around 73°F or 74°F (sorry to the people who use reasonable units -- it's better to communicate with folks ar

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] please review (signing up for volunteering to help with talks)

2010-07-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/28/2010 07:23 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > * provide the speaker with water > * not only tell the speaker, she has 10/5/0 minutes left, but also enforce > this > * tell the speaker in advance, that they actually only have $timeslot minus 5 > minutes available, so that people can breathe and c

[Debconf-team] hacklab and davis networking changes to benefit video team

2010-08-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Q and micah and i talked through the network configurations yesterday and made some decisions about the network. These decisions were spurred by some networking failures experienced by the video team that resulted (afaict) in the loss of some video recordings (and the failure of some live streams)

Re: [Debconf-team] Credit to Richard for DebConf10

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/05/2010 01:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Yes indeed, let's hear it for Richard! Yes: yay Richard! Richard, you have pulled this conference through in so many ways that i can't even begin to count them. Your work has been and continues to be very very much appreciated.

Re: [Debconf-team] Sunday Clean Up

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/05/2010 03:58 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:25:57PM -0400, Gabriella Coleman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So anyone on the orga team who can be here for Sunday breakdown should. >> I will send an announcement to debconf-announce seeking volunteers as well. >> >> We don't have a

Re: [Debconf-team] Bug#592170: please add debconf delegates to intro/organisation

2010-08-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/09/2010 05:05 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > I've just gotten home and am probably going afk for some relaxation > soon. But, I wanted to point out that only a few members of the DC10 > localteam were active in the debian vs debconf discussion (event 658). > I hope that more of them can a

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf anti-harassment policy

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/02/2010 05:19 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment_policy > > What are your thoughts on adopting some sort of thing? I think it's a > good idea, and we can leave the adaptation and posting to some team > who takes it on and reports back

[Debconf-team] DebConf Standards of Respect [was: Re: DebConf anti-harassment policy]

2010-12-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/12/2010 06:06 PM, Martín Ferrari wrote: > that's just diluting what harassment means. This is perhaps why Richard re-titled the proposed policy "Standards of Respect", and not "anti-harrassment" (yes, the subject of the thread is different): http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/StandardsOfRespe

Re: [Debconf-team] Definition of talk topic groups / sections / categories?

2011-01-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 01/27/2011 07:34 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > Penta supports selecting both a "track" and a "event type" at the time > of submission. You can see the DC10 fields here: > https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc10/event/new > > I forget when the tracks were added... people on the talks team

Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-01-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 01/27/2011 08:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm > naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to > adopt for DebConf. > > Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break* > before the start

Re: [Debconf-team] error wiki.dc.org with https -> dc7

2011-02-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/13/2011 02:25 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> report bug: >> http://wiki.debconf.org -> OK! >> https://wiki.debconf.org -> DC7 ? > > Not a bug, exactly as configured. > debconf7.debconf.org has same IP and its using ssl if the machine is running squeeze, we should be able to use SNI to provide

Re: [Debconf-team] Website related track at next DebConf

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/14/2011 02:44 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > on the debian-www list we recently spoke about the idea to have a > website related track during DebConf. I don't think it need to be > directly only www.debian.org related, maybe name it "debian.org related > webservices" which can be everything

Re: [Debconf-team] svn repositories blog and reports moved

2011-03-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/17/2011 07:46 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > i just finished merging the blog and the reports svn into debconf-data > preserving their entire history. [...] > I set the old locations inaccessible, so noone can accidently commit or > work with them. Thanks, Joerg! Could you update http://www.

Re: [Debconf-team] Talk submission: Difference between "Submission notes" / "Abstract" / "Description"

2011-04-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/14/2011 04:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I always wonder what the difference might be. For me the field > "Abstract" is clear. It should be mandatory. There might be some use > for "Submission notes" which can be filled with notes to clarify the > abstract or some other stuff but I usually

Re: [Debconf-team] propostal web watch debconf11 with html5

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/12/2011 02:58 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > It is fine if people use facebook/twitter/flickr/youtube/whatever to > promote DebConf. If it is clear they are doing it on their own, it is > NOT DebConf (or Debian) doing it. > > But our website should NOT ever include a non-free service. Either the

Re: [Debconf-team] Social Networking and Dc11 Old: propostal web watch debconf11 with html5

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/12/2011 11:13 AM, ValessioBrito wrote: > Is not it important to monitor and encourage DebConf comments within > these networks? If you want to spend time on those networks, no one will stop you :) However, the minute debian requires me to agree to the terms of service of any of the groups y

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf11 schedule

2011-05-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/23/2011 11:16 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Tuesday, 26th, Groupphoto at 15oo(?), Cheese+Wine party in the evening Is there a specific reason (lighting, location, etc?) to choose 15:00 for the group photo? in earlier discussion within the talk , we had talked about having it right after lunch,

Re: [Debconf-team] some problems with the videos

2011-05-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/23/2011 01:54 PM, Marcelo Gutierrez wrote: > 2011/5/21 Ross Boylan > >> https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/392.en.html has this link >> to the high quality video: >> >> http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2009/debconf9/high/904_Quality_Assurance_BOF.ogv >> That

[Debconf-team] A records or CNAMES for www. prefix [was: Magazine Ad is ready!]

2011-06-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/06/2011 10:26 AM, Leandro Gómez wrote: > 2011/6/6 Martin Zobel-Helas > >> zobel@marra:~% host www.debconf11.debconf.org >> Host www.debconf11.debconf.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > Right. It should be http://debconf11.debconf.org. Thank you! Thanks for catching this, Martin, and for fixing

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Network equipment

2011-06-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/08/2011 06:18 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Marinko, > > On Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2011, Marinko Tarlac wrote: >> It would be nice if you can provide a small list which eq. exactly do we >> need. > > 10-15 APs, same models and running OpenWRT prefered :-) I believe Brian Gupta (here in NY) has

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