Re: [Debconf-team] my "final" analysis of budget before today's meeting

2012-11-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 7. November 2012, Richard Darst wrote: > There are all sorts of predictions for the amount of money we will > get, with most centered on 150% to 200% of DC12 amount (90 -- 120 > kCHF). comparing sponsorship for "Nicaragua" with "Switzerland" is just not useful. Switzerland is an int

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting on 22/11 and MiniDebConf on 24 and 25/11?

2012-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 9. November 2012, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > It was brought to my attention that, while we will be having a DebConf > team meeting on November 22, many of the DebConf organizers (local, > global, whatever) will be at the Paris MiniDebConf just two days > afterwards. yes, I'll be there t

Re: [Debconf-team] smaller DebCamp, normal DebConf instead of shortening?

2012-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lucas, On Mittwoch, 14. November 2012, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > From my limited understanding of the situation, the current ideal plan > would be to reserve all of LeCamp for both DebCamp and DebConf. While it > really makes sense for DebConf, I'm not so sure about DebCamp: usually, > the number

Re: [Debconf-team] Contract

2012-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Moray Allan wrote: > Have the electrical installation checks been done yet? While I don't > imagine this being a problem, it's not clear what happens if the > checks fail later. AFAIK they haven't, but it's also still 9 months left. > What are Le Camp meant

Re: [Debconf-team] reports from Le Camp "BSP", part 6: trust + seeing is believing

2012-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, it has been a few days, but I think you still deserve a reply... On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > I might like to add the following: I always travelled to OS events > with the principle in mind that when draining time from the family I > should not drain money

Re: [Debconf-team] Contract

2012-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 14. November 2012, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:01:08PM +0100]: > > > - Remove requirement for 300 people (that day? ever?) before camping > > > is allowed > > > > I really dont think it's useful to be pi

[Debconf-team] Fwd: [Debconf-sponsors-team] some company

2012-11-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, FYI (no time to write down my opinion atm...) cheers, Holger -- Forwarded Message -- Betreff: [Debconf-sponsors-team] some company Datum: Donnerstag, 15. November 2012 Von: Raphaël Walther An: debconf-sponsors-t...@lists.debconf.org Hi There, In Neuchâtel there

Re: [Debconf-team] non-CHF sponsorship

2012-11-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 19. November 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 19/11/12 23:23, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > In my experience[1] with this it's almost impossible to be > > prescriptive about this with sponsors in this manner, and therefore > > (a) and (d) are complete non-starters. > > I notice both yo

Re: [Debconf-team] non-CHF sponsorship

2012-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 20. November 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> after it is signed, they won't move) FUD. and please stop putting informal words from irc into publicly archived mailinglists. (and out of context (and esp. about sensitive topics like negotiations.) and plong, for mail as well now.

Re: [Debconf-team] dc13 draft budget, 2012-11-20

2012-11-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. November 2012, Richard Darst wrote: > Here is found a draft budget: > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/dc13/accounting/budget.ods?v > iew=co thanks a lot for working on this, Richard + Philipp! (I do think the budget is very very conservative, but thats good for

Re: [Debconf-team] le camp and people attending partial weeks?

2012-11-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 21. November 2012, Richard Darst wrote: > I imagine this has already been discussed, but if we have lots of > people coming for partial weeks, can le camp handle this, yes. (we will mostly handle this.) > and more > importantly, only charge us for when they are there? yes, su

Re: [Debconf-team] dc13 draft budget, 2012-11-20

2012-11-22 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > (Of course, with infinite amounts of cash you can lend a boat, but even > with 120% of the LeCamp budget, I very much doubt one could find a > suitable venue in March.) that and if we restart the venue search now, we will _also_ get l

Re: [Debconf-team] dc13 draft budget, 2012-11-20

2012-11-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I very much disagree with the assumption that we only have space for ~40 > professional attendees. The least we can say about this is that there is > absolutely no consensus about what standard of accomodation the > professional fee s

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 decision meeting: past and present

2012-11-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ana, On Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, Ana Guerrero wrote: > I still remember when Tincho (local team then) > said: "You can not delay a DebConf until it's ready" This is one of the > reason why it is asked to future localteams to get involved ready, to > learn how to live in this chaos ;) yea

Re: [Debconf-team] I have read the (complete) meeting log and have some thoughts that I would like to share.

2012-11-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 23. November 2012, Brian Gupta wrote: > If I am not mistaken hug is going to try and get Le Camp to agree to 1 > week, plus some reduction in the DebCamp week commitment (either > length or committed buildings), and is authorized to sign a contract > with such a reduction? with an

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (dropping cc:s as everyone is subscribed...) I tried to inniate a conversation with Moray and Gunnar last night, but sadly failed, so here are my thoughts only. My general comment is, that I have not seen any new arguments in the last seven days or so. (I also spoke with Ana on Sunday for

[Debconf-team] chair decission how to proceed (was Re: Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Moray, hi Gunnar, I think we need to get together and decide what we as chairs want to do. Can we please either discuss this via (private) mail (between ourselves) or on some irc channel? I'm happy to share our discussion after the fact, but I would like a sole discussion between us three, a

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 27. November 2012, Ana Guerrero wrote: > you > started the discussion trying to find out what is my bigger problem with > the intention of trying to "calm down" that. I'm glad you know my intentions better than I do. Based on this assumption I dont think I have to reply much to the

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Hermann, On Dienstag, 27. November 2012, Herman Robak wrote: > Drastical solution: Sex-segregated houses. please stop posting solutions. we are here to look for problems. scnr, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf

Re: [Debconf-team] Update from meeting with LeCamp

2012-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 28. November 2012, Philipp Hug wrote: > We (Gaudenz and I) had a meeting with LeCamp and agreed on the following > changes to the contract: cheers & thanks for your work! For those not following IRC: the chairs held a meeting on #debconf-team yesterday and agreed to go (on) wi

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] "Anonymous donation" to Debconf 13

2012-12-02 Thread Holger Levsen
7;m pretty sure Philipp did this on debconf-t...@l.dc.o. They were not included in the budget the DPL was asked to approve. As said, "dead horse". On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2012, Holger Levsen wrote: > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20121102.150947.08f4206c.en.html > &

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf thoughts

2012-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, we are long aware of the issues at Le Camp as we are aware about issues at other locations, this is precisly *why* we choose Le Camp, because long evaluations considering up and downsides of several options have resulted in Le Camp being our best option for a great DebConf in Switzerland.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] "Anonymous donation" to Debconf 13

2012-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 3. Dezember 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The "anonymous donations" we got offered were rejected (by us) > Why do you use scare quotes ? for two reasons: a.) because they are not anonymous to me and b.) because I'm not as fluent in english writing as others. > I'm sorry to keep m

[Debconf-team] frab workshop + lightning talk tomorrow at 29c3

2012-12-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, tomorrow at 14:25 localtime there will be a lightning talk about the 29c3 frab usage and after that at 16:00 there will be a frab workshop in Halle 13. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/VOC_-_Conference_recording I've just talked to some ohm2013.org organizers who also use frab and

[Debconf-team] Fwd: [frab] Status Update

2013-01-01 Thread Holger Levsen
happy new year! :-) -- Forwarded Message -- Betreff: [frab] Status Update Datum: Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012 Von: Mario Manno An: f...@librelist.com Hi, I've just held a Lightning Talk about frab and I'm now sitting in the VOC workshop. https://wiki.koeln.ccc.de/images/1/1c/

[Debconf-team] I wish you a wonderful 2013 & DebConf13! (oh, and DebConf14 too)

2013-01-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (this mail is not as short and clear as I would have liked. But then, I also wanted to send it a week earlier and so I rather send it now then never...) So anyway: even though it's already mid January, I'd like to wish you all a very happy 2013 and a wonderful DebConf13! I really hope we

[Debconf-team] I wish you a wonderful 2013 & DebConf13! (oh, and DebConf14 too)

2013-01-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (this mail is not as short and clear as I would have liked. But then, I also wanted to send it a week earlier and so I rather send it now then never...) So anyway: even though it's already mid January, I'd like to wish you all a very happy 2013 and a wonderful DebConf13! I really hope we

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 21. Januar 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > in the context of using an online "rooms" booking system, here's the result > of my investigation: > > In Debian: > > - hoteldruid > http://www.hoteldruid.com/ [...] > After looking at all those, I think we should try to adapt h

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2013, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > So I think that manual allocation will do a better (and fairer) job. [...] > To conclude: I don't think automatic means more fair. fully agreed. choosing rooms by algorithm only is a sure recipe for desaster. ___

[Debconf-team] still true: Re: I wish you a wonderful 2013 & DebConf13! (oh, and DebConf14 too)

2013-01-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 14. Januar 2013, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > For your information, I was motivated to propose Paris as a city for > Debconf 14 (or 15). > However, these recent threads/attitudes broke my motivation to start > anything on this subject. FWIW, same here for DebConf in general and also re

Re: [Debconf-team] DC12 network (was Re: DebConf12 final report)

2013-01-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013, Philipp Kern wrote: > I thought we had the DC11 wifi network working sensibly after the count > of APs was increased in the auditorium and their power reduced. the problem at DC11 was mainly that at first a 2.6 kernel was tried, which still doesnt work well with old

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 28. Januar 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > * People should be able to select their room mates. IMO this is wrong/impractial: it would be nice to have if people are able to select their room mates. And we try to. But its not a should or must.

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Could you elaborate? no. [...] ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Online rooms booking systems

2013-01-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Could you elaborate? > no. [...] of course I _could_, but I'm not gonna work in a dysfunctional team. Life's

[Debconf-team] dc14 (Re: Call for DebConf volunteers and DebConf14/15 bids)

2013-02-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 25. Januar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: > 1. If you are interested in putting forward a bid for DebConf14, > please tell us now by a message to the DebConf team list, > debconf-team@lists.debconf.org -- the bid doesn't need to be 100% > ready yet, but we need to know which of the previ

Re: [Debconf-team] video footage

2013-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ori, On Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2013, or...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: > I was wondering which tools do you use for video footage of DebConf > events shown in http://video.debian.net/ - i.e. I'm in desperate look > for a --good-- way of taking HD video of both the lecturer and the > presentation show

[Debconf-team] deadline for DebConf14 bids: 20130228

2013-02-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as we haven't done so yet, we've decided to set the deadline for DebConf14 bids for evaluation to February 28th 2013 (23:59 according to your timezone). Please see https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf14 for more information on how to submit a bid. Further details of the dc14 timeline will

Re: [Debconf-team] 2013-02-10 IRC DebConf meeting - Minutes

2013-02-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: > > P.S. Are these "Meeting reminder" and then "Meeting minutes" mails > > actually useful? > Yes, they are definitely useful. Thanks for taking over this job. +1 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debc

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 14 bid for Portland, OR, US

2013-02-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On the other hand I'm concerned that once again changing fundamental > parts of the bid after the decision is shown as a normal thing that > happens each year again. I agree that everything should be still > changeable even much later th

Re: [Debconf-team] Next DebConf13 team meeting poll

2013-02-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > Next team meeting will on Thursday 28th February 2013 20:00 UTC. I'm fine if the next meeting is then, but in general I'm not available on thursdays and would prefer another day. cheers, Holger __

Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation and pricing subteam meeting 2013-02-26 2100 UTC

2013-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > After looking at the Doodle poll I decided to schedule the meeting for: > > * Tuesday 26th February 2100 UTC > * #debconf-team on irc.debian.org there is no page for this meeting yet which is linked at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/De

[Debconf-team] CMS/Registration Weekend @ Le Camp

2013-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as discussed we're planing to have a meeting at Le Camp very soon, to finalize the registration+accomodation plans, to see Le Camp for real (to get a "feel" for the location and a grip of it) and also, and definitly not least, to hack on our beloved conference management system, known as Pe

Re: [Debconf-team] CMS/Registration Weekend @ Le Camp

2013-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013, Philipp Hug wrote: > I was asked to check availability at LeCamp for a weekend. The dates > in the Doodle are the only ones available. > The prices and sizes of the rooms are as follow: > * Passerelle (32p) / Carre 50p) 2x CHF650 = CHF 1300 > * Maison 5 (dorm-sty

Re: [Debconf-team] CMS/Registration Weekend @ Le Camp

2013-02-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013, Holger Levsen wrote: > as discussed we're planing to have a meeting at Le Camp very soon, to > finalize the registration+accomodation plans, to see Le Camp for real (to > get a "feel" for the location and a grip of it) and also, and d

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf14 bids

2013-03-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 1. März 2013, Moray Allan wrote: > The next formal stage of the bid process will be the bid status > meeting: > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Bid_process#Bid_status_meeting > > We should try to hold that meeting soon (next weekend, or the week > after?), but it's best to ask quest

Re: [Debconf-team] Call for volunteers to join DebConf Committee

2013-03-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 12. März 2013, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > From the people who answered to this mail, and after a brief chat with > Moray (Holger was not available - Please comment on this!), I suggest > we add to the Committee: > > • Tiago Vaz > • Martín Ferrari very fine with me! I also agree we s

[Debconf-team] brave new world (Re: [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA)

2013-03-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, please don't "freak out" too much about this border/visa/database issue and be assured that we - as a team - are very well aware of those issues, also because we discussed them at length for debconf10, and not much has changed since them. And like every year, each bid and each choos

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Portland team: DebConf in the USA

2013-03-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 17. März 2013, Christian PERRIER wrote: > About this topic : from my own experience, I would advise *against* > targeting a "big" conference room, except maybe for opening/closing > sessions (ok, that puts aside the difficulty of setting up a romm only > for two sessions, for the v

[Debconf-team] next dc13+14 meeting dates

2013-03-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, due to traveling and other stuff I lost a bit track when the next meetings about dc13 and dc14 will be. Can someone please enlighten me? The topic on #debconf-team aint helpful, and so aint https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Meetings :-( Thanks! cheers, Holger _

Re: [Debconf-team] next dc13+14 meeting dates

2013-03-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, thanks! On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The topic on #debconf-team aint helpful, and so aint > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Meetings :-( > But http://www.debconf.org/calendars/DebConf-team.ics is :-) thats fine, but no reason to not update the well es

Re: [Debconf-team] next dc13+14 meeting dates

2013-03-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Meetings > thats fine, but no reason to not update the well established locations of > the wiki page and the irc topic. irc topic fixed, I'd appreciate if someone could prepa

[Debconf-team] pycon & how we all lost

2013-03-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, FYI: http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/ cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] [DC14] Committee Decision Meeting: Friday 2013-04-05 18:00UTC

2013-03-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (most cc:s stripped) On Montag, 25. März 2013, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > So, with 13 people having answered, the Doodle poll for our next > committee meeting is closed. The DebConf14 Committee Decision Meeting it's not the "DebConf14 Committee Decision Meeting", it's the "DebConf14 Team Decision

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for travel-sponsorship

2013-03-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 15. März 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > There are 25'000 CHF (~ 26400 USD) for travel sponsorship already in the > budget the DPL approved. And as the financing of that budget is also > already secured I was under the impression that no further decision > about this is needed. ri

[Debconf-team] just on food: Re: Accomodation pricing and categories

2013-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (really just commenting on the food aspect here...) On Montag, 18. Februar 2013, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > OTOH I would try to force two different food prices: early booked, and > (limited availability) of late booked food. why??? really, on what basis would you do this and what would be t

Re: [Debconf-team] Accomodation pricing and categories

2013-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 15. Februar 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > In this mail I'll try to summarize the discussion we already had > about accomodation pricing and categories. The current proposal is in > the wiki: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Pricing on https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf

Re: [Debconf-team] 2013-04-08: DebConf IRC meeting 18:00 UTC, 20:00 CEST

2013-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 2. April 2013, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > so we will have the meeting the 8 April at 18:00 UTC, 20:00 CEST, about: > - accommodation proposals (in short: full capacity, 2/3, max 4 per room) and pricing. > - debcamp > - deadlines cheers, Holger signature.as

[Debconf-team] DebConf newbees for DC13 (Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for those wanting to do DebConf newbees again this year or are wondering if it's feasable, the short summary is: yes (if...). On Freitag, 5. April 2013, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote in another thread on debian-women@l.d.o: > The bottleneck to the viability of DebConf newbies have > historicall

Re: [Debconf-team] Conference bag proposal

2013-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 5. April 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > So my thoughts here, are in agreement for different reasons. I > somewhat feel that if there is an official conference bag it should > either have no sponsor logos, or have the logo of all the larger > sponsors as we have done in the past. I unde

[Debconf-team] skip breakfast from budget (and dc13 orga mostly)

2013-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, while looking at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Pricing* I noticed a breakfast costing the fortune of 10 CF/day/person is (still) included in our calculation. IMO we need to skip breakfast as an officially provided DebConf13 item (as we have done several times before) and provide

[Debconf-team] make bed selection a lottery

2013-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, instead of turning DebConf13 into a travel agency which will have to manage requests, demands and complaints (even more than we already have to deal with every year) and giving richer people an opportunity to buy their beds of choice and forcing poorer people into left-over beds, I suggest

Re: [Debconf-team] skip breakfast from budget (and dc13 orga mostly)

2013-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 8. April 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Le Camp doesnt really care for what we spent our money (as long as they > > get roughly what we predicted we would spent) > I don't think this is true. this is true. believe me, please. i talked with them about this. > Asking for this c

Re: [Debconf-team] Cloud Track

2013-04-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Brian, On Dienstag, 9. April 2013, brian.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > I was curious if there is going to be a cloud track at the upcoming > Debconf. With OpenStack packages already in Debian, Eucalyputs packages in > unstable, and growing interest in providing Debian images for public > clouds,

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsored attendees and rail prices

2013-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 19. April 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I think it's reasonable to simply trust that most people will look for > the best deal yes. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsored attendees and rail prices

2013-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 23. April 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> I think it's reasonable to simply trust that most people will look for > >> the best deal > > yes. > I don't think that was the point of the original discussion though - can > you explain the nuances of Swiss railway ticketing as concisely

Re: [Debconf-team] Conference bag proposal

2013-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Arne, thanks for your work on this! On Dienstag, 23. April 2013, Arne Wichmann wrote: > I have now discussed with the sponsor, and they would be ok with a small > number of sponsors on the bag (platinum and gold) and their own of > course. I'm not really sure this is ok, or to phrase it diffe

Re: [Debconf-team] Conference bag proposal

2013-04-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 23. April 2013, Patty Langasek wrote: > Did we find out how much those bags would be "worth" they are worth "nothing", from an organizer POV - we can do debconf pretty well without them. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message pa

Re: [Debconf-team] Bubullemobile confirmation

2013-05-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, /me looks forward to see the Bubullemobile arrive! :-) On Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: > I vaguely plan to go at 2013-08-05 +/- two days - depending who (if at > all) might like this idea. /me too, though rather not before Monday :-) cheers, Holger signature.asc De

Re: [Debconf-team] Conference bag proposal

2013-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Arne, On Freitag, 26. April 2013, Arne Wichmann wrote: > > I think the general idea is good, /me too > > but would ask Leandro who did the DC13 > > artwork to do a design if possible. This should result in a better > > design than just doing it ad-hoc. Do you know the exact dimensions? > Of c

Re: [Debconf-team] Rethinking the way travel sponsorship works

2013-06-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for your work on dc13 attendee sponsorship! Just one comment/question: On Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Making the whle process fully public was already rejected in previous > discussions. I agree that this might be too much. ack > But to balance > accountability

Re: [Debconf-team] Conference bag proposal

2013-07-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Arne, On Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Raphaël Walther writes: > > Well, I don't know if you already sent 300 number but I suggest to have a > > little more like 350. > > > > We have 35 Sponsors and Supporter. So with current number: 270 + 35 = > > 305 > > Yes please if

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: Dishwashing & Cleaning

2013-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 8. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > DISHWASHING > Total cost CHF 5280 wow :( I'm not sure this is sensible... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing l

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: Dishwashing & Cleaning

2013-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
seriously, buy two dishwashing machines (max 1000€ total) and let them be filled by volunteers... 5k for dishwashing is like 3% of our total budget. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debco

Re: [Debconf-team] Thank you for the food and accommodation for DC13

2013-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 8. Juli 2013, Patty Langasek wrote: > If you haven't already, please log into your Penta account(0) and deselect > the option for "I want to attend this conference", and make sure the > "Reconfirm Attendance" box is also not checked. isn't not reconfirming enough? Jonathan is a very ni

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: Dishwashing & Cleaning

2013-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 8. Juli 2013, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > It's not necessarily true that attendees will miss important sessions if > they decided to volunteer on this. They will probably put their names for > date/time that they feel comfortable doing so without loosing anything > important. Socializi

Re: [Debconf-team] Network at Le Camp and a few questions to those who previously did the network at DebConf

2013-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Axel, On Montag, 8. Juli 2013, Axel Beckert wrote: > So my questions to the video team: > > * Does the video team network needs to be globally routed? please no! > * How many IPs does the video team need? public? one. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: Dishwashing & Cleaning

2013-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Gregor, On Montag, 8. Juli 2013, gregor herrmann wrote: > I consider it totally reasonable to strongly ask (at least sponsored) > participants to sign up for 1-2 shifts of dishwashing, and I'd > suggest to do this during registration: "Here's your name badge, your > room is over there, and plea

Re: [Debconf-team] Network at Le Camp and a few questions to those who previously did the network at DebConf

2013-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 9. Juli 2013, Philip Hands wrote: > Four of the TP-links were mine -- one of them was flaky, and got swapped > out after causing sufficient grief in the machine room (IIRC), two of > the remaining three are now in use, so only the last one remains for me to > bring along this time

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: Dishwashing & Cleaning

2013-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Raphaël, On Dienstag, 9. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > I really need a decision today. Eight more hours and you'll have it :) > B. Dishwashing partialy done by 3 students from 14:00 to 22:00 for total > cost of CHF 2640 and volunteer based in the morning. this amount sounds way more re

Re: [Debconf-team] Urgent: Dishwashing & Cleaning

2013-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I think cleaning in the evening will be more work and thus I suggested what I suggested... cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org ht

Re: [Debconf-team] Invoice with official institution address

2013-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Florian, On Dienstag, 16. Juli 2013, Florian Haftmann wrote: > Is it possible to obtain an invoice with the *official postal address* > of my institution (as declared as postal address in pentabarf)? yes, that should be possible. Someone from the invoicing team shall contactly you shortly, i

[Debconf-team] DebianDay, Debians 20th birthday, party! (Re: potential wider audience on weekends, Debian Day)

2013-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I've just noted the topic "DebianDay - cancel?" for todays meeting, and while anybody could have written this (so maybe thats just a suggestion from a "slighty negative minded person" ;) it prompted me to finally write this mail. On Friday, August 16th 2013 Debian will turn 20 years and man

Re: [Debconf-team] DebianDay, Debians 20th birthday, party! (Re: potential wider audience on weekends, Debian Day)

2013-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, On Dienstag, 16. Juli 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote: > does that mean there is now a wider invitation for people (e.g. not just > DDs) to attend on 16 August during the day and/or the party? > > Or this is just an event for DDs? DebConf (and DebCamp) is for anybody interested in contribut

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trip - please comment

2013-07-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2013, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > I like your idea but we need to find a solution to alocate people to the > > different coaches. Just let the people build up queues in front of the busses... > The simplest solution (algorithmically) I believe the above is simpler :)

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trip - please comment

2013-07-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > > Just let the people build up queues in front of the busses... > And what if the first is almost empty and the last has 100 persons for a 75 > persons coach (i had this experience already). the first bus doesnt leave until its reasonably

Re: [Debconf-team] Time to start thinking about Cheese and Wine party...

2013-07-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 19. Juli 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I also noticed that this is not yet scheduled. If you want an early day, > Monday and Tuesday are still free, Wednesday is the Daytrip and Sunday > is probably too early. I don't see any obvious reasons why Monday should be > better than Tue

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the > conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip Thanks for all your work on this, Raphaël! > We

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > ...the DPL > approved [0] a budget including 10.4 kCHF for the conference dinner and > 17.4 kCHF for the Day Trip. point. > Given the above, I think the only reasonable request to the DayTrip > organisers now is to ask them to fit th

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Formally, the proposed plan is _not_ going over the approved budget, > which had total amounts, and not the (per-person) details [1]. The DPL > approved a global budget, not a per-person split budget (we have non- > per-person costs as

Re: [Debconf-team] 20th Birthday Party - DebianDay

2013-07-29 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2013, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > We could move the "Debconf Poetry Night" from 15 to 16. I'm quite sure the > proposer will be happy to switch. I can manage it from talks team side. > Also, we could also mention somewhere that artistic interventions from > attendees are ver

[Debconf-team] printer needed

2013-07-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, can someone bring and lend us a printer for the duration of debcamp and debconf? Color laser prefered, but just laser is also fine. Oh and we also prefer ethernet, not usb. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: [Debconf-team] printer needed

2013-07-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 30. Juli 2013, Holger Levsen wrote: > can someone bring and lend us a printer for the duration of debcamp and > debconf? this has been sorted out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debcon

Re: [Debconf-team] offer to donate/rent Debian-based network appliance for DebConf

2013-08-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Hideki, hi Plat'Home, many thanks for sponsoring dc13 and for your OpenBlocks offer! On Donnerstag, 1. August 2013, Hideki Yamane wrote: > One of our Debconf13 sponsor, Plat'Home (http://www.plathome.co.jp/)(*) > asks me that they want to contribute to DebConf not only sponsor fee > but als

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: Arriving on 10th August instead of 6th

2013-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jose, On Dienstag, 6. August 2013, Jose Antonio Quevedo Muñoz wrote: > Hi! Is anybody there? > forwarding as I didn't get any response. registration@ had some issues appearantly, you're not the only one who has been waiting for an answer... sorry about that! > From: Jose Antonio Quevedo Muñ

Re: [Debconf-team] On site team meeting on friday 16 at 1300

2013-08-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 16. August 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Because talks start at 1330 in the afternoon today, we will have the > team meeting at 1300. We need to start thinking about departure and > teardown, I'm preparing a list of things we need to do, but there are > some things we need to dec

Re: [Debconf-team] On site team meeting on friday 16 at 1300

2013-08-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 16. August 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > As with all our on-site meetings, the agenda and minutes can be found on > the on-site meetings wiki page, also linked from the central dc13 > meetings page: > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/OnSiteMeetings danke / merci / thanks! :

[Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Erinn, thanks for bringing this up. (Full context for those who dont't follow debian- women@l.d.o is at http://lists.debian.org/20130819214628.ge9...@mrsa.erinn.org) On Montag, 19. August 2013, Erinn Clark wrote: > So my other recommendation to conference organizers is: make it explicit > tha

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-22 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 21. August 2013, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > C) "If accepted, this talk MUST BE recorded by the video team" if you offer this option, who pays the video team? I'd be fine with s#MUST BE#shall be#. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. __

Re: [Debconf-team] Thank you Ad

2013-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for the work on the Thank you Ad! Content wise I only have one comment: maybe include the categories (platinium, gold, solver) next to the sponsor names? On Freitag, 23. August 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > We will have a problem there: we promised "Logo in full-page “thank you

Re: [Debconf-team] Pictures - License

2013-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 26. August 2013, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Following a narrow definition of NC would be problematic... not only that, sometimes DebConf has been a commercial entitity signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

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