On 06/09/2011 12:58 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
> If doesn't make your day I don't know what will.
>
> Our gold sponsor Mtel has decided to give *every* DebConf11 attendee a
> phone number and package along with it! I got too excited so I'm not
> sure I got it right but I think this is the package the
On 06/09/2011 01:24 PM, Moray Allan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
> wrote:
>> c) if debconf actively encourages the adoption of non-free tools, or
>> actively excludes users who do not adopt non-free tools, it would seem
>> to distance
On 06/09/2011 01:45 PM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote:
> As I see they will provide a SIM card with a bunch of credits for DC11
> people. Is that too bad? I think it's a good news for DC attendees and
> doesn't deserve complaints :)
I apologize for my knee-jerk response; i did not understand what wa
On 06/09/2011 04:16 PM, Nedim Skenderovic wrote:
> This is a very good deal, since most of people who would come would probably
> buy expandable SIM cards so they can stay in touch with LOCAL TEAM or
> friends for low costs. And this is a free offer that you can accept or not,
> nobody is forcing y
On 06/18/2011 05:48 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Ok, so I spent some time scheduling the top-rated talks today, and we
> have a preliminary schedule to start working with. Yay!
Thank you, Gunnar!
> • We are scheduling so far on two rooms only. We can add a BoF room if
> needed, but it will not have
Hi Adnan--
What language will this spot be in?
On 06/29/2011 09:29 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
> The way I thought about this ad was, to have list of cities where it
> was held so far, then couple of keywords,
The full list of cities where debconf has been held, at one city per
second, is already th
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:41:33 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
wrote:
> I believe Brian Gupta (here in NY) has access to the wifi routers we
> used (or tried to use) in DC10. I'll be coming at the start of debcamp
> this year, and could get them from Brian and take them with me when
On 07/11/2011 05:02 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:41:33 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
> wrote:
>> I believe Brian Gupta (here in NY) has access to the wifi routers we
>> used (or tried to use) in DC10. I'll be coming at the start of debcamp
>
i dunno about the rest of the questions, but:
On 07/20/2011 06:38 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
> - What is the situation on drinks for meals? Is DebConf going to have
> to pay for that?
Thus far, water is free and plentiful at meals, and people who want
anything else have been paying for beers out-o
On 07/20/2011 07:57 AM, Richard Darst wrote:
> People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it
> included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am
> further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10.
> I don't think Clint should be left out like th
On 07/20/2011 11:03 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> For
> the record, not every travel sponsorship requestor on the herb team got
> perfect
> scores, so this wasn't theoretical.
I'm glad to hear this! Out of curiosity, what percentage of the herb
team members that did apply for travel sponsorship d
Thanks for the statistics, Jimmy!
On 07/21/2011 12:46 AM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Percentage of herb-team members applying for sponsorship: 50%
>
> Percentage of herb-team members applying for sponsorship who got a perfect
> score: ~83%
[...]
> Average score for herb-team members who requested
On 07/21/2011 08:34 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> After checking the locations available and the times, it looks like
> there is no good place where to take the photo at the planned time,
> The best time to take the photo is around 19:00-19:30 directly in
> front of the main venue, so I would propos
Hi folks--
the talks team has just clarified and normalized the names of the rooms
where the talks wil be held. The two rooms that have video-team
coverage are:
* Auditorium
* Round Room
The third talks room (see recent debconf-discuss announcement) is:
* Meeting room
The names have been c
On 07/23/2011 11:40 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> I must have been looking at the wrong watch - please move it up to
> 19:00-19:15,
The group photo is now scheduled for 19:00 on the 26th of July.
Thanks, Aigars!
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On 07/22/2011 09:06 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:05:30PM +0200, micah anderson wrote:
>> I don't think its particularly germane or illustrative to compare Clint's
>> answer to the first question to dkg's. A more interesting comparison is to
>> compare Clint's response to
On 12/06/2011 08:31 AM, Leandro Gómez wrote:
> I've create a doodle poll for the next global team meeting. Please choose
> the date and time that suits you best:
>
> http://www.doodle.com/wt7xyuc38y4sr73d
it may just be the non-javascript version of the poll, but fwict these
proposed times don't
On 02/25/2012 06:11 AM, Moray Allan wrote:
> I think rivers have banks, but lakes have shores. Opinions from other
> native English speakers? (This is the kind of thing that could easily
> vary by region.)
As a USAian native english speaker, i believe Moray is littorally correct.
--dkg
On 03/15/2012 06:22 PM, Moray Allan wrote:
ICBW but I'm not sure Condorcet is sensible for a multi-winner election?
There are several mechanisms to use condorcet to produce an overall
ranking (with possibility of some ambiguity if there is ambiguity in the
electorate):
https://en.wikipedia.
On 07/06/2012 04:00 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> we really do need them. someone, please confirm that *you* are working on
> this. talks team, maybe?
yes, i'm setting up http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/Talks and
will send a message to debconf-announce about it shortly.
thanks for the nudge,
On 07/08/2012 02:35 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote:
> A possible way to "sweeten" the deal could be to offer a power outlet
> to the talk room coordinators? I noticed there's no power in the talk
> rooms.
yes, i think that's a good idea. i'll see if we can arrange that.
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On 07/25/2012 11:03 AM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> who will hinder me from adding 3 lines with +1?
your conscience? common sense? the wiki page history?
> Also editing this table is not funny.
agreed. it's neither fun nor funny, nor particularly intelligible.
i suppose this will keep out th
[re: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/LogoIdeas#Second_Round ]
On 07/25/2012 12:17 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> On Wed Jul 25, 2012 at 12:10:02 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Does anyone have a better proposal for how to conduct such a poll on
>> debian (or
Sorry to pile into an already long thread here.
I'm one of the people who has raised the childcare question (i asked
about it during the debconf14 bid session at dc12), and i just wanted to
put it in my 2¢ about why this is a worthy goal and also maybe rein it
in some and put it in perspective.
F
On 01/13/2013 01:22 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> - wiki.debconf.org is now only reachable by SSL. non-ssl gets
> redirected. Though I would be happy enough to let non-ssl access it
> too, if someone takes the time to tweak either the apache config or
> mediawiki so that it requires SSL for logi
On 01/29/2013 03:09 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le samedi, 26 janvier 2013 14.55:09, Raphaël Walther a écrit :
>> The report is half finished under the 'debconf-data/reports/dc12'
>> directory.
>
> I have now cleaned it a tiny bit to make it look more polished, in
> particular:
> I have c
On 01/29/2013 11:48 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> I can have a look tonight and maybe fill the gaps. I don't think we have
> to go too much into details anyway.
thanks!
> I can fill in this information if you think it's relevant.
yes, i do think that's relevant. i'd like other people to know wh
On 01/29/2013 01:24 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> If that's about the network I wasn't entirely happy with the wi-fi last
> year. ;-)
i wasn't entirely happy about it either, but it did basically work, from
what i saw. Anyway, knowing what we used specifically is useful either way.
> I set up a fre
On 01/31/2013 02:00 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> - a couple of people (I think dkg was one of them) provided IRC feedback
> about the day trip report, but I can't locate copies of their comments
I don't remember that specifically, but Bremner's "plainly inadequate"
update to the daytrip report (svn'
On 02/19/2013 01:38 PM, micah anderson wrote:
> I've added dkg, and Andrew McMillan to the CC list, we've all been part
> of debconf tech setup/networking in the past.
I'm interested, and happy to stay in the loop, but i'm just now coming
to grips with some immutable personal scheduling that make
On 03/31/2013 02:59 PM, David Prévot wrote:
>> On Mar 31, 2013 12:01 PM, "Moray Allan" wrote:
>
>>> I try to avoid using Paypal myself for reasons unrelated to their fees
>
> Would you mind sharing those reasons?
I'm not moray, but i'll tell you mine:
i used to have a paypal account. Then, t
On 05/01/2013 09:50 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> So, I'd suggest , as we have done on other teams, to invite people
> that were on the team in the past to repeat. FWIW, I intend to
> repeat.
I'm not going to be able to attend DC13, sadly. I'm willing to try to
help review talks, but i can't make a l
On 08/19/2013 11:32 AM, Hector Oron wrote:
> I would be interested to help on planning parallel activities for
> families with kids, so it is possible to ease Debian Developers attend
> conference while their families keep entertained.
I plan to attend DC14, and i also want to help with this.
On 08/21/2013 03:30 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Very valid point. Asking this via penta would allow the talks team to
> schedule such talks in untaped rooms.
as someone who has been on the talks team in the past (i was basically
AWOL this year) it would help us in talk scheduling to have a trist
On 08/25/2013 06:06 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> Part of the discussion about Debconf with kids should be kept private.
> So please, create this list, unarchived and with subscription moderated.
> I think debconf-families is ambiguous and I would prefer debconf-kids
> or debconf-parents, but I d
On 09/27/2013 03:47 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Patty Langasek [2013.09.27.1928 +0200]:
>> 2. DebCamp - yes or no? We do not have official venue (talk rooms)
>>for the week prior to our reserved dates (or the week after).
>>If we do have DebCamp, it will need to be restricted
On 05/02/2014 01:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't really have a strong opinion on whether this should be part of a
> CoC. If we accept that the dual purpose of the CoC is to make people feel
> welcome who would otherwise fear being subjected to abuse and to remind
> people to be on their bes
On 07/02/2014 06:06 AM, René Mayorga wrote:
> On the last global team meeting the Schedule structure were decided[1],
> based on that information and with the efforts of Ana and Martin, plus
> some discussion on #debconf-team, we have reach the schedule structure
> noted below.([2] for graphic
On 09/03/2014 12:33 AM, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
> I was trying to look into some old videos of debconf9 from 2009. I see an
> empty page when I reach there.
> http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2009/debconf9/
I see two directories there: high and low, which both appear to
On 09/04/2014 04:07 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach martin f krafft [2014-09-04 11:38 -0700]:
>> ¹) Instead of increasing their flexibility and staff after we
>> informed them of our impending arrival, the Rogue actually upped
>> their prices for DebConf from $5 to $5.75. Bastards.
>
> I
On 09/10/2014 11:09 PM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote:
> Also, I don't like the idea of publicizing the raffle as a motivating
> factor to attend DC events. I can't find words now to express this, but
> it sounds to me a kind of legitimation of laziness, DebConf officially
> tolerating the fact that a
On Thu 2015-01-29 11:37:43 -0500, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> By initiative of Paul Wise, recently there has been some talks about
> inviting a LWN journalist to cover DebConf15, by offering travel and
> board sponsoring.
>
> LWN is one of the most respected news outlets in the Linux world, they
> have
On Wed 2015-02-04 11:21:19 -0500, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:42:18AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
>> Dietary restrictions:
>> - Not applicable
>> - No dietary restrictions <>
>> - Vegetarian
>> - Vegan (strict vegetarian)
>> - Other (contact ASAP)
Could frame th
On Thu 2015-02-05 03:13:46 -0500, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote:
>> While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the
>> vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to
>> skip meat one day, I really don't agree with
On Thu 2015-02-05 13:47:14 -0500, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> I fail to see why you think that the current proposed wording of "no
> dietary restrictions" implies that every meal will have meat.
I think this because i've seen it happen very often.
Many conference meals i've been at include explicit
On Fri 2015-02-06 04:21:15 -0500, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> I think this is the right approach to the problem Daniel (dkg) was
> worried about in his reply. Finding the right proportion of vegetarian
> food will be an iterative process. I suggest to start with a proportion
> of vegetarian which se
On Tue 2015-02-24 15:06:57 -0500, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> I agree with what has already been posted that "None" is a very bad
> idea that it doesn't really convey the meaning. It should be explicit,
> i.e. "Ovo-lacto vegetarian", no None or similar in the string. Please,
> whatever is decided,
On Wed 2015-02-25 18:41:07 -0500, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Can we just owe them a glass of water?
served in a drinking bottle with a debian swirl on it :)
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Hi Michael and other orga folks--
On Sun 2015-03-08 17:15:58 -0700, Michael Banck wrote:
> We will send out the CfP on Tuesday, so I thought I'd run the current
> list of proposed topics/tracks by this list to get any final feedback.
> Please note the list is already quite long right now, so if w
Hi Karsten--
On Mon 2015-07-27 15:26:47 -0400, Karsten Merker wrote:
> I have just looked through the current talk schedule for DC15 in
> summit and have stumbled over two cases where one speaker would
> have to hold two talks at the same time:
>
> The first case concerns Dani
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