Re: [Debconf-team] Q for Cape Town bid: attendees safety outside the venue

2014-12-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 19/12/2014 10:15, Stefano Rivera wrote: > We wouldn't need to do that. > > We just need to remind people to be aware that they are in a country > with a lot of crime. They'll almost certainly be fine, anywhere in the > city. It's pretty much the same as walking around in any big city. If you'r

Re: [Debconf-team] Q for Cape Town bid: attendees safety outside the venue

2014-12-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi David (note: I'm not on debconf-team, it seems to be a private list) On 19/12/2014 14:02, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi David (2014.12.19_11:46:23_+0200) >> Can someone who was in Managua (Jonathan?) compare the security >> situation with Managua? I found everyone I talked to in Managua friendly

[Debconf-team] Debconf 16 Todos, etc

2015-02-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Greetings Debconf friends, I'm typing up some notes from discussions on IRC today (phew). == Timeline == Here's an initial timeline document, adapted from https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Timeline : https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Timeline I started fleshing out February, please jump in an

Re: [Debconf-team] font licensing notes

2015-09-13 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Tammy On 14/09/2015 03:44, Tammy Manning wrote: > For the msg's will respond later this evening. > Chasing a Mon morning deadline. Cool, no pressure. Shout if you need info/help/assistance when working on it. -Jonathan ___ Debconf-team mailing lis

Re: [Debconf-team] font licensing notes

2015-09-14 Thread Jonathan Carter
(sorry, hit reply-to-list which sent to debconf16-team before, please reply here) Hi Allison and Tammy (and team) On 09/09/2015 21:15, Allison Randal wrote: > Just a quick skim, to think about as we settle on fonts: > > Lobster: SIL Open Font License, 1.1 > https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/

Re: [Debconf-team] This week's meetings...

2015-09-14 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey On 15/09/2015 02:37, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:33:21AM +0200, Bernelle Verster wrote: >> Hi all >> * 2. Website meeting - Tammy, Raoul, Simon > > Other possibly relevant persons: wendar, tumbleweed, cate, edrz (me), > (other past contributors ...), ... And me.

Re: [Debconf-team] font licensing notes

2015-09-14 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Eric On 15/09/2015 03:56, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > I don't know much about licenses. But, DebConf users will file bugs [0] > if we make them pull anything (fonts, css, js, etc) from anywhere else. > Which is to say I think we'll need to be able to serve our own copy of > whatever we end u

Re: [Debconf-team] Scheduling DC16 meetings

2015-09-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 15/09/2015 12:54, Bernelle Verster wrote: > It looks like Wednesdays 19:00 UTC (21:00 SAST/local event time) still > seems good. If there's no massive objections, can we then make the > meeting tomorrow night? Please add agenda items on the wiki (currently > still blank) [1]. > > Two things: >

Re: [Debconf-team] Scheduling DC16 meetings

2015-09-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 15/09/2015 13:13, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 15/09/2015 12:54, Bernelle Verster wrote: >> It looks like Wednesdays 19:00 UTC (21:00 SAST/local event time) still >> seems good. If there's no massive objections, can we then make the >> meeting tomorrow night? Please ad

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf meetings this week

2015-09-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 21/09/2015 22:37, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Philip (2015.09.21_22:29:32_+0200) >>> Last week's Monday meeting was clearly a one-off. >> >> Obviously I missed the relevant memo. > > No, it was an intentionally private meeting, to try to form the core of > the coordination team. The privateness

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-sponsors-team] Website: static page or redirect to wiki? - NB for fundraising

2015-10-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Laura On 04/10/2015 11:03, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > The bad news > > * I cannot make design decisions, and I'm really bad at aesthetics > * No idea about how to "build" sites, nor how to make > debconf16.debconf.org point to I'm going ahead and putting something together, I'm using the mos

Re: [Debconf-team] website presence meeting: crunch time.

2015-10-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 06/10/2015 20:43, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) dijo [Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:32:28AM +0200]: I also don't see the need to battle them out. We have a few people strongly in favour of wafer and no one against it (at least as far as I could track). martin has brought up

[Debconf-team] Artwork

2015-10-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi everyone (and Tammy in particular) I don't yet have the final artwork elements, but I've gone ahead and updated the artwork page on the wiki with the best information I have available: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Artwork Tammy, can you please provide the vector versions of bac

[Debconf-team] Team Roles

2015-10-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Do I understand correctly that https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/LocalTeamRoles will no longer be used? It looked really useful to me but there has been some who didn't like it, if we're not going to use it then I'd rather remove the page and the link to it from the mediawiki sideb

Re: [Debconf-team] Artwork

2015-10-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi! On 12/10/2015 14:18, Tammy Manning wrote: Yours is not far off at all, sorry for all emails, it is difficult when caught off guard. Not sure I completely follow, off-guard by...? /artwork on the wiki is the first place people will look for artwork related info, so we were always going to

Re: [Debconf-team] Team Roles

2015-10-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 12/10/2015 14:16, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jonathan Carter [2015-10-12 13:11 +0200]: Do I understand correctly that https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/LocalTeamRoles will no longer be used? It looked really useful to me but there has been some who didn't like it, if

Re: [Debconf-team] Artwork

2015-10-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Tammy On 12/10/2015 20:16, Tammy Manning wrote: The deadline for this was Wednesday, I spoke to at the braai and said we need to review the Style Guide, it was agreed that we would do it tomorrow night at the Clug Dinner. Now there are things on Wiki that are black and pink and whatever othe

Re: [Debconf-team] Deadline (Re: Collaboratively drafting the next DebConf delegation)

2015-10-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 20/10/2015 22:01, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:27:54AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: For the record. I am completely opposed to these changes and put forth as an alternative the text of the original delegation from 2011. [1] I agree with this, and with the objections to the

Re: [Debconf-team] I get by with a little help from my friends

2015-12-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Allison On 10/12/2015 19:15, Allison Randal wrote: Things are a bit up in the air at the moment, but the day-to-day practicalities of DebConf are pretty much the same as always. It would help me enormously to briefly hear what folks are planning to work on in the coming months. I'm not conce

[Debconf-team] Setting up poll for new meeting times

2016-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi DebConf team! I'm setting up a new poll for meeting times for the weekly DC16 meeting. Before I just seed it with times that will be convenient for the local team, feel free to send me (off-list to reduce noise or highvoltage on oftc) your preferred time (all times in UTC) and day that woul

[Debconf-team] DebConf 16 meeting times poll for late April and May

2016-04-10 Thread Jonathan Carter
Greetings Based on feedback from preferred meeting times received from the list, here is the framadate poll that covers the next month and a half or so. https://framadate.org/71BvMlgaDogvKBDO This week, the meeting time shall remain on the usual time (that is, Wednesday 13 April at 18:30).

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting reminder: 10 May 2016, 18:30 UTC

2016-05-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi On 10/05/2016 12:19, Bernelle Verster wrote: Please add your items to the agenda: http://deb.li/DC16meet1 I'm forwarding my apologies for tonight, I'll be attending a talk so might just be home in time to catch the tail-end of the meeting. -Jonathan _

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Logos for approval

2016-06-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Tammy Just spoke to Daniel, because I noticed the Google logo is the old one, and he said he can confirm that Google wants the new one (looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#/media/File:Google_2015_logo.svg) It's used on the website so far too. PS: Wouter you might also want

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Logos for approval

2016-06-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Tammy On 22/06/2016 16:47, Tammy Manning wrote: > I think Hetzner's logo is also incorrect, please see the sponsors > page: https://debconf16.debconf.org/sponsors/ > > Great thanks, for pointing that out. > > Will need to get the proper logo. Stefano says that you might have foldy-out des

Re: [Debconf-team] could somebody bits about the underground city in the debconf17/fun wiki ?

2017-01-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 20/01/2017 15:48, shirish शिरीष wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(Toronto) > > Have no idea if it's near or very far from the venue. Could be > interesting to visit in groups. Toronto is around 5-6 hour drive away. -Jonathan ___ Debconf-t

Re: [Debconf-team] feedback for DebConf17 / Re: [Debconf-announce] DebConf Announcements for 2017-08-11 (Day 6)

2017-08-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi awesome Joost On 13/08/2017 21:00, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Hi awesome DebConf team, > > First of all: DebConf17 was great. I am really happy I've finally actually > met > some people I've been cooperating with for years, this will make future > cooperations even more smooth and effectiv

Re: [Debconf-team] initial landing page for DebConf16 ( debconf16.debconf.org)

2015-10-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Laura On 04/10/2015 18:00, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > I have pushed an initial landing page for http://debconf16.debconf.org , > please have a look here: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/dc16.git/tree/website > > The CSS is a bit mess because I have copied from other place an

Re: [Debconf-team] initial landing page for DebConf16 ( debconf16.debconf.org)

2015-10-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi again :) On 04/10/2015 19:43, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Hi Laura > > On 04/10/2015 18:00, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: >> I have pushed an initial landing page for http://debconf16.debconf.org , >> please have a look here: >> >> https://anonscm.debi

Re: [Debconf-team] initial landing page for DebConf16 ( debconf16.debconf.org)

2015-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 04/10/2015 20:00, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Great, I'm going to invest most of my time in the design and CSS > elements then and re-use as much as your copy as possible. So, a basic page that serves as a placeholder until the bare bones of the real site is up is avail

Re: [Debconf-team] website presence meeting: crunch time.

2015-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! On 05/10/2015 07:28, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: >> * Then I put the advantages and disadvantages for each 'contender'. >> The way this is written feels very battle-like, which is not (really) >> intended. If you have another way of summarising this, please go ahead >> (a table in a wiki?) Th

Re: [Debconf-team] Website: static page or redirect to wiki? - NB for fundraising

2015-10-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi everyone On 04/10/2015 10:09, Bernelle Verster wrote: > We're gearing up for fundraising, and we need something at the > http://debconf16.debconf.org destination. I made some unilateral copy changes on http://debconf16.debconf.org/ - please review and change as needed. -Jonathan

Re: [Debconf-team] Resignation

2015-10-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Steve On 06/10/2015 15:46, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:27:09PM +0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> Despite working very hard for a long time trying to follow our mandate, >> it has become patently clear that some people will keep boycotting any >> efforts at consensus-buildin

Re: [Debconf-team] Artwork

2015-10-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hey Tammy On 12/10/2015 21:54, Tammy Manning wrote: > I'm just trying to get that page structure as good as possible so that I > can add the correct information to it. > I do understand that and you have done a great job!! my > concern people will use that instead of what should be, and then y

[Debconf-team] DebConf 16 Sponsorship Opportunities

2015-10-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Andrew and Deon It was great meeting you tonight! Here's a link to the sponsorship brochure for DebConf 16: http://media.debconf.org/dc16/fundraising/debconf16_sponsorship_brochure.pdf The official contact for sponsoring is spons...@debconf.org - if you send queries there, the sponsors team w

Re: [Debconf-team] Deadlines and doing stuff (Was: Artwork)

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hey On 13/10/2015 17:01, Bernelle Verster wrote: > Using the website proposal as example - ask Jonathan, Raoul, I think > you have already. From here on, this will be developed hand-in-hand > with the wafer system, so let Stefano and Simon (Hodgestar) know. > Those are the relevant people now, you

Re: [Debconf-team] Fwd: DebianEdu

2016-06-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 28/06/2016 21:19, Bernelle Verster wrote: > I don't know anything about this, so can't judge if this is doable. > Can you please comment on > 1. if it would be a good idea, generally, and I believe that this would be the perfect kind of thing to show off at open weekend. > 2. if so, if it is t

Re: [Debconf-team] Swag, extension cords, and Open weekend PC's

2016-06-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 30/06/2016 18:23, Bernelle Verster wrote: > Separate issue: > > Checking the brochure, the Bronze sponsors are also allowed to add swag. > > Apart from Bluemosh, who is local, I did not contact any of the Bronze > sponsors. Is it too late to ask them if they want to contribute? I > feel that th

Re: [Debconf-team] Things to discuss

2016-07-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Tammy On 07/07/2016 17:24, Tammy Manning wrote: > Things to discuss in the meeting: > > Aquarium Dinner: I'm driving through because I'm taking some video team members who have to stay late due to encoding jobs that they have to take care of. > CLOSING CEREMONY: > What are plans for this?

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf16

2016-07-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 11/07/2016 11:57, Tammy Manning wrote: > Is there anything we need to do post-debConf? Apart from the final report? Might be a good idea to start an etherpad for the loose ends, but even that should be quite minimal. Are there still tasks outstanding for sponsorship fulfillment that our local

[Debconf-team] Questions for the 新竹市 (Hsinchu, Taiwan) Team

2016-12-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Hsinchu team Thank you for your bid, it looks great so far! I sometimes see Hsinchu written as HsinChu, are both forms acceptable? Is one more preferred than the other? The list of local hardware companies (MediaTek, RealTek, TMSC, DLink, etc) is impressive. Between the members of the local

[Debconf-team] Questions for the Curitiba (Brazil) Team

2016-12-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Curitiba team Thanks for your really good bid page. And thanks for including the pronunciation clip, I had to do a search to find it for Hsinchu :) Winter temperatures in Curitiba look similar to the temperatures we had in Cape Town. We warned people to bring some warm tops and something com

Re: [Debconf-team] Canadian border problems

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 02/05/2017 09:58, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I couldn't believe it when I saw this[1] but it is appearing in the > news, an Australian, no evidence of a criminal record or anything, > unable to enter Canada due to an outbreak of bureaucracy. Well, he overstayed his US visa, even if it was just by a