Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship allocation team & request

2009-04-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Second, Tincho suggested having the process a bit similar to the papers > process. Committee process people in penta using the voting system and then > have a meeting to talk about the results. Last year, he had two meetings, and > some peopl

Re: [Debconf-team] li...@debianday?

2009-04-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! 2009/4/15 Florian Schießl : > My questions is: are you interested in a talk at DebConf Open Day on > 24th July? Not a technical talk, but more about the background, about > policy and about free software in public authorities. I think it's an appropiate talk for the DebConf Open Day. Howeve

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship allocation team & request

2009-04-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > If we're getting to this stage, then something has gone wrong with the > travel sponsorship already. People are expected (and told) to just > list the amount they *must* have sponsorship for in order to be able > to travel. Given that, offe

[Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question

2009-04-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: > Holger, then I want to reserve rooms for 3  of us for 4 nights from We need someone to be in charge of room allocation. This someone should receive ro...@debconf.org and should know how much stuff costs, to answer queries. T

Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question

2009-04-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> We need someone to be in charge of room allocation.  This someone >> should receive ro...@debconf.org and should know how much stuff costs, >> to answer queries.  They don't need to speak Spanish.  Can someone >> volunteer for this? > During

Re: [Debconf-team] Room allocation: Volunteer needed - Penta question

2009-04-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Is there hurry in having somebody taking care of this? This can be done like 2 > weeks before the conference, and still it will be hard due all the changes of > people coming or not coming, changing days, etc. > Also, from now to the date, who

Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship allocation team & request (Question to penta admins)

2009-04-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Ana Guerrero wrote: > All those fields rated from 1 to 5 right? How about: > Contributor: > 1 - Seldomly Seldom > 2 - Regular > 3 - Active > 4 - Very Active / Orga team > 5 - Extra point for people organizing events/Talks/BOFs at debconf. This would be: DebConf

[Debconf-team] Booths at Open DebConf Day

2009-04-28 Thread Margarita Manterola
> Booths at OpenDay > ~ > Sponsors can get a booth if > - Sponsor pays payment of booth cost at a typical Spanish conference >  (will be researched later) According to what I talked with Ana, € 1000 should be a good price for this. > Open question: if a sponsor pays just the cost

Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship

2009-04-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Per Andersson wrote: > Since travel sponsorships are payed after DebConf (when people > have shown their real cost and ticket/receipt) why is it necessary > to estimate this figure beforehand? Because we will confirm the amount that we will sponsor BEFORE DebConf

[Debconf-team] Minutes from yesterday's meeting

2009-05-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! Yesterday we had a local-team meeting. The intention was to have a meeting with both César and Anto, and hopefully somebody else from Extremadura, but only César turned up. The idea was to have the meeting in Spanish, to avoid mis-communication issues, but in the end it was a very mixed-lang

Re: [Debconf-team] Reminder: Global Team Meeting, Monday, 2009 May 11, 19 UTC

2009-05-11 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Richard Darst wrote: >    * Travel sponsorship: fill-in-missing-info: was email sent out? It was a bit delayed, but yes, it was sent out. If people still have their data with incorrect values, we will not make any more exceptions. -- Besos, Marga _

[Debconf-team] Minutes from yesterday's meeting

2009-05-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
HI! Yesterday we had a global organization meeting, regarding several subjects apart from local organization. * More penta access - We needed someone else to be able to run queries through PentaBarf's DB, so that we can get the needed information when the Penta admins are busy with something els

Re: [Debconf-team] Click&Pledge link

2009-05-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > https://co.clickandpledge.com/default.aspx?wid=27393 > It looks like Click&Pledge defaults to USD - we should work with ffis to > see if they can accept online payments directly in EUR. I added a payments page with this info. The pay

Re: [Debconf-team] data loss

2009-05-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Cristian, 2009/5/15 Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas : > when debconf was announces i decide to put my data on penta, even my > photo acomodation info and the rest of the forms even the photo are loss We will look into this and try to recover your info. In the meantime, can you tell us what browser

[Debconf-team] Minutes from yesterday's meeting

2009-05-19 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! Yesterday we had a local-team meeting, that was held in Spanish in #debconf-team, with simultaneous translation to #debconf-team-en. Even if the translations are not so good, this turned out to be a nice way of communicating better with the local team, while keeping everyone else in the loop.

[Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > Who else knows how Open Debian Day is being run / what else do we need > to do for it at this point ? The basic idea behind the Open DebConf Day was to select the talks that would be interesting both to DDs and non-DDs, so that we coul

[Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm not in the talks committee, so I felt it was not my place to do the actual selection, but I went through the talks list and selected those that I thought were best suited for Open Day, here's a list with event id and title: 382 - QEMU for Debian Developers 371 - immunity: securing untrust

Re: [Debconf-team] Open Day talks

2009-06-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Luk Claes wrote: >> 382 - QEMU for Debian Developers > > I thought Open Day was meant for a wider audience than DDs? I fear that > this one might be rather technical. Ok. >> 412 - Debian on Network Storage Devices and Other Devices > I think this one is rather te

[Debconf-team] Travel Sponsorship Meeting summary

2009-06-07 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! We had a meeting today with the Travel Sponsorship team (code named "herb"), in which we sorted out the travel sponsorship requests. After 80 minutes of meeting, we came up with a list of 35 people that will be receiving a mail today, stating that we can sponsor their travel fares. This come

[Debconf-team] Regarding the professional fee

2009-06-07 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! Back when the initial registration mail was sent, it was decided to charge € 300 for the "Professional" category. At that moment, we didn't really know how much things would cost, so that number was just an estimation that came out of thin air. Currently, we do know that a shared room with b

Re: [Debconf-team] Global Team Meeting Minutes, 2009-06-09

2009-06-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
> To solve this, marga will work on emailing people with possibly > incorrect penta data and work on sorting it out.  We have a deadline > of one week for correcting all Penta data.  We will provide rooms for > people as long as possible, but there is some limit to us filling up > and not having mo

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget and registration updates

2009-06-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On that note, having people pay for the daytrip has worked well in the past, > but at the same time we don't want people to be excluded from the daytrip if > it's legitimately hard for them to afford. Both in DC7 and DC8, a part of the Day

[Debconf-team] T-shirt colors

2009-06-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! After the poll, and some irc discussion regarding whether we should or shouldn't repeat t-shirt colors, it was decided to have the following colors for the T-Shirts: 1) Attendees: Light Green (it's lime, a shiny green) 2) Organizer: Black 3) Volunteer: Red 4) Video Team: Orange This keeps la

Re: [Debconf-team] Amount of people for food per day

2009-07-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Sponsored: > Will pay: Please remember that this people may or may not pay, as there was no "I'll eat outside DebConf" option this year. We still need to figure paying for food out, but in any case, please don't consider that everybody that ha

Re: [Debconf-team] Formal Dinner: how many people ?

2009-07-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Anto Recio wrote: > all the people is sponsored? Everybody is sponsored. -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] orga meeting notes

2009-07-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > 5. eva blanco will do nametags, she can contact Marga (in spanish) to get the > scripts from last year (to get the data out of penta into pdfs..) I don't have it. If I'm not mistaken, Stephen had done it. Stephen do you have the script to c

Re: [Debconf-team] Vertical banner review

2009-07-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > http://media.debconf.org/dc9/vertical-banner/banner.pdf > The deadline for corrections is this weekend. I think only sponsors up to silver should be listed. -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailin

Re: [Debconf-team] Food for some sponsors

2009-07-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Zobel just asked me about covering food expenses for some sponsors who > have just arrived. He says there are a couple of folks from DG-I who > would like to eat with us. They have paid us EUR 3,000 for > sponsorship, so rather than asking th

[Debconf-team] Events scheduled after 21:00

2009-07-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! There seems to be some conflict about this, and I wanted to leave an opinion I think it's perfectly acceptable that video team members don't want to work during or after dinner. I don't oppose the decision, everybody should be able to have dinner in peace. Last night, what was done was leav

Re: [Debconf-team] Moving "Debian redesign" to Lower talkroom

2009-07-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > If there's no objection I'll put a sheet at the BoF room door with this advise > on 2009-07-29 and do my best to get enough video volunteers to stream it from > the Lower room. Please do! It's nice if it can be avoided to schedule th

[Debconf-team] Orga meeting minutes

2009-07-28 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > * For those people looking for t-shirts who have lost theirs or weren't >  in Penta we'll start giving away those we still have that haven't been >  picked up tomorrow. For free? How many people really lost t-shirts? You can give a t-s

[Debconf-team] Final Report ready - Request for Comments

2010-02-28 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! After a long delay on my part, the final report is now ready. It should be at: http://media.debconf.org/dc9/report/, which is currently giving me a 404, but I think it'll just fix itself after some cron run. When this works, please have a look at it, and if you find anything that needs fixin

Re: [Debconf-team] Final Report ready - Request for Comments

2010-03-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I've corrected all the things that were pointed out, either by mail or on IRC, and re-uploaded the corrected version. I guess a press release should be issued now. Maybe do DC11 in Bosnia and DC9 Final Report ready in the same release? -- Besos, Marga __

Re: [Debconf-team] My thoughts on reconfirmation, fundraising, etc

2010-06-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! So, I was asked to state my opinion on this matter, as a previous DC Organizer and all. In Argentina, we didn't have too many $tourists registering from outside, due to the long distance flights and all. But to avoid $tourists from .ar, what I did was review every non-maintainer from .ar tha

Re: [Debconf-team] My thoughts on reconfirmation, fundraising, etc

2010-06-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
A small reply to myself: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Now, it looks like the amount of people in this situation in NYC is > similar, only that the cost per person is almost double what we had > over here (350 USD vs 650 USD), so I can understand that al

Re: [Debconf-team] [reg/payment teams] Calculating attendee fees

2010-06-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Some opinions on the subject. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > Unsponsored (basic, no food or accom): > - This always pays by day during DebConf. 53/night and 15/meal during >  DebConf > - Can these DebCampers ever have a free DebCamp stay if they have >  a workplan?  

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

2010-07-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > concerns.  I'll call this rescheduling X: > >  * move pre-lunch events 30 minutes earlier, move post-lunch events 1 > hour earlier.  This would mean every scheduled event would end by 18:30. >  however, that's not much time for attendee

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

2010-07-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
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 1 slot (start at >> 9:30, end at 12:30), move post-luch events 1 hour

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Local jobs organization and some questions

2010-07-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > So I think breaking this down is a really good idea and I am down for > doing the volunteer coordinator if we break it down and have one person > also in charge of the various sub-categories where we need volunteers. I > can take one of t

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

2010-07-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! > Thanks!  It looks right to me.  Marga, can you take a look at the > schedule when you get a chance and let me know if i've faithfully > interpreted your proposal? > >  https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc10/ Regarding the Schedule, it looks fine, BUT there shouldn't be something sche

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf10 is _11th_ debian conference

2010-08-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Patty Langasek wrote: > Am I reading this right? We're refusing to fix a bug that is WRONG in a > Debian-related medium because people supposedly proof-read it and said it > was fine? Seriously? The website has already been fixed, and it now says: "2010 Annual D

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf discussion: Venue bid process

2011-01-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all! I'm sorry that I've been silent and away from a lot of Debian/DebConf mailing lists due to work issues. I hope I'm still on time to express my opinion on this matter. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Moray Allan wrote: > Here is a new draft bid process with minor modifications based on

[Debconf-team] Meeting minutes from Tuesday March 29th

2011-03-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, The bot minutes and log are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-29-20.00.html http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-29-20.00.log.html # DC10 Final report status The Final Report is basically done, thanks to Tiago and Tassia, but

Re: [Debconf-team] March 31st update - accomodation

2011-03-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > * french is single big bed, usually for couples In English this is called a double bed. When there are two beds in a room, it's a twin room. Please let's call it that -since we are communicating in English- to avoid confusion. > # Hotel

[Debconf-team] Accommodation details

2011-03-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, After a lot of talk on the mailing list and on the IRC channel, it really looks like the best option is going to be to operate just like we did for DebConf10: we reserve the rooms for the Prof./Corp. attendees, they pay us through FFIS/SPI. People can still book their own places, by selection

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf GLOBAL team - Report

2011-03-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Besides report on what's happening with it. I was also thinking of > addition of two new fields in PentaBarf for this years DebConf. > > - Parking > - Sharing room with someone There is already a field in Penta about "Room Preference". I t

[Debconf-team] Concerns regarding Le Camp

2012-11-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, I know I've been away for too long. I know I should have raised these concerns before. I'm really sorry about both things. However, I've spent the past days coming up to speed with what's going on. I can see that there have been endless discussions and currently most people aren't happy for

[Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the DebConf chairs. I regret that it has come to this, but since I still do have a lot of concerns, I'm following this path. My main concerns were expressed in a

Re: [Debconf-team] Regarding DebConf13 planned location

2012-11-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> It has been requested that those of us that have concerns about the >> DebConf13 location should formally raise them with the DPL and the &g

Re: [Debconf-team] what do we think we can do better for dc13? example: random venue

2012-12-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Just clarification not about this specific case. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > As far as I know, LeCamp in *not* being decided upon. It *was* decided upon > in the decision meeting vote for the venue of Debconf 13 long time ago. And > it stays that way until Debco

Re: [Debconf-team] Some thoughts on sponsorship tiers, and perhaps one improvement.

2012-12-06 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: > What do people think? I think it's a very good idea. It might be necessary to present it in a way that bigger sponsors don't feel cheated, but I think that's possible. Also, there's 9 months till DC13, I would support this being applied

Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf travel sponsorship team

2013-05-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > We are trying to assemble a large enough (but not too large?) team > to help us rate the travel sponsorship requests for DebConf13. Many > aspects are still open to debate, but most probably we will follow > the usual, past years'

Re: [Debconf-team] German two-bid strategy

2014-03-06 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, This is becoming quite a flamewar and doesn't seem a productive use of everyone's time. I'm not going to reply point by point, but rather give a general overview of my opinion, both as having been part of the committee, a DebConf organizer, and part of the German bid at this time. When the bi

[Debconf-team] DebConf 15 Legal Entity

2014-04-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
ns that you might have. For everyone else, we would also like to hear your concerns, should there be any. Although we might not be able to take all things into account, as we are bound by requirements of German law and the tax authorities, we would like to avoid any problems that have already aris

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf governance (Re: About the DC15 entity and authority (was: DebConf 15 Legal Entity)

2014-04-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! We discussed this all day long in the debconf15 IRC channel. And we found that we are basically in agreement with the following statement: The association (Verein) is just a legal entity for contract signing/liability limitation/money transactions, but for DebConf decision processes, the memb

[Debconf-team] RFC: (Hopefully) Last draft of the dc15 sponsorship brochure

2014-08-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
7;t have to guess what the silence means. -- Thanks, Margarita Manterola ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Subsidised bar prices

2014-09-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:38 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > At DC13, where a drink was to cost 4 CHF (~$4.50), there was an > outcry among the participants, resulting in the subsidy of drinks at > the bar by the organisers. I believe an important motive for the outcry was the fact that there we

Re: [Debconf-team] Subsidised bar prices

2014-09-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Marcelo Gutierrez wrote: > Is this policy definitive? When was this decided? The hostel (Jugendherberge in German) is part of a group of hostels that have this policy, i.e. the policy comes "from above" and is not something that can be changed. We did not dec

Re: [Debconf-team] RFC: (Hopefully) Last draft of the dc15 sponsorship brochure

2014-09-07 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > * Job fair: do we have some idea of how much this will cost to accommodate? The specifics of the job fair are not in the brochure, but our idea of how this is going to work is that it will be during one limited period of time (e.g. on

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf organization working group and next steps

2014-09-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
HI, On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Tassia wrote: > We agreed that the chairs would take on the administrative task of > facilitating the teams' composition, so I'll explain in a bit more > detail how we are going to proceed. > > As soon as we have agreed on a list of subteams, we are going to p

[Debconf-team] DC15 team IRC meeting tonight (Sept. 15th - 19 UTC)

2014-09-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, The DC15 team (in other DebConf editions known as "local team") will meet tonight at 19 UTC. Due to popular demand, this meeting will take place on #debconf-team. This is an experiment to see if participants (particularly non debconf-team regulars) feel comfortable having the meeting ther

Re: [Debconf-team] Opening Weekend Ideas Wiki

2014-09-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Jathan, On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:49 PM, jathan wrote: > Hello. I have opened a wiki for DebConf15 Opening Weekend Ideas for > suggest and organise activities with some initial proposals that I think > could be good. > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/OpeningWeekendIdeas Thanks

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

2014-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > We don't really have much weekend time, especially considering tnat > we are planning an opening weekend. The next Saturday is already the > final conference day and we are off on Sunday. I believe just three > days of talks with all

Re: [Debconf-team] General schedule proposal for dc15

2014-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Michael Banck wrote: >> 8 hours during weekends > I think we should not overload the weekend that much. I'm not sure why, so I'd like to hear more on this point. Particularly for the Opening Weekend, we are anticipating a larger amount of people, that would c

Re: [Debconf-team] Hacking vs. free time (was: General schedule proposal for dc15)

2014-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:46 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Seriously, I wonder why we are discussing this, as we are speaking > about exactly the same concept: larger periods of continuous (free) > time in the schedule which people can use for hacking. But since > they are not required to hac

Re: [Debconf-team] Length of morning sessions (was: General schedule proposal for dc15)

2014-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:53 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Margarita Manterola [2014-09-21 18:00 > +0200]: >> This hasn't been agreed on. > I was pretty sure we had mostly agreed on this being a good idea. > What sort of agreement do you want? This

Re: [Debconf-team] TorrentStream

2014-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi César, Thanks for your interest in DebConf15. On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:36 PM, César Cordero wrote: > I want to contribute with an presentation about TorrentStream and the using > of Peerflix and Node.js via this technology. > Where do I have to send my presentation?. You will need to wait

[Debconf-team] Reminder: DebConf15 IRC meeting this Monday, Sept 29th at 19:30 UTC [21:30 CEST]

2014-09-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all! As last time we ran out of time, we will have another meeting next Monday. Once again, the meeting will be in #debconf-team. This time, though, it will be at 19:30 UTC [21:30 CEST]. A tentative Agenda is here: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2014-09-29 Although m

Re: [Debconf-team] Reminder: DebConf15 IRC meeting this Monday, Sept 29th at 19:30 UTC [21:30 CEST]

2014-09-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Minutes of the meeting at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-09-29-19.30.html We have agreed to have bi-monthly meetings, at 21:30 Germany time. This means: * Next meeting: Oct 13th 19:30 UTC (21:30 CEST) * Following meeting: Oct 27th 20:30 UTC (21:30 CET) -- Be

Re: [Debconf-team] Estimating budget assumptions for DC15

2014-10-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:57 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > the utility of the DC15 budget will depend largely on the > assumptions we make, mainly how many people we expect to be staying > at the youth hostel on each day. > > This is guesswork, but we should try our best, for our own benefit.

[Debconf-team] DC15 Team meeting tonight on #debconf-team at 19:30 UTC (21:30 CEST)

2014-10-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all, As discussed two weeks ago, we will have a DC15 team meeting every other Monday, at 21:30 Germany time (which translates to 19:30 UTC for today and 20:30 UTC starting from the next meeting). The agenda for tonight's meeting is at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2

Re: [Debconf-team] debconf 15 "opening weekened"

2014-10-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > In the website in important dates, it says that the 15-16 August is the > "opening weekened (geared to the public") and those appears also as DebConf > days. It seems like this has been decided already. Before jumping to > conclusi

Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting reminder: tonight, 20:00 UTC

2014-10-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
Thanks for those who attended. Meeting notes from the meetbot: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-10-27-20.01.html -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/

[Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 Meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET)

2014-11-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) on #debconf-team to discuss status updates on several organizing points. We don't have anything else apart from status updates in the agenda for tonight, so if you have any issues you would like to discuss, feel free to add them after tha

Re: [Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 Meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET)

2014-11-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all: > We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) on #debconf-team to > discuss status updates on several organizing points. Minutes from the meeting at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-11-10-19.59.html Next meeting on Nov. 24th, 20:00 UTC. -- Besos, Ma

[Debconf-team] Job Fair

2014-11-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, One of our potential sponsors has asked for more details about the Job Fair, I gave them what I could based on what we had talked among the team, but still there were a lot of unanswered details, that I think we need to figure out to tell this and other sponsors. The main questions, as fa

[Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tonight

2014-11-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) The current agenda is at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2014-11-24 There aren't that many items right now. Feel free to add issues to discuss if you have any. -- Besos, Marga _

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tonight

2014-11-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, The minutes from the meeting are at: Agenda for next meeting is at: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi, > > We have a meeting tonight at 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) > > The current agenda is at: > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tonight

2014-11-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Oh wow, sorry about that... The minutes from the meeting are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-11-24-19.59.html Agenda for next meeting is at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2014-12-08> -- Besos, Marga

[Debconf-team] Coordination team meeting, please add yourself to the dudle

2014-11-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, We need to start the work of this new coordination team, and if possible, we would like to have the first IRC meeting during next week, and make it a recurring monthly meeting. For that to succeed, we need people that are interested in participating to add themselves to the dudle: https:/

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsored lanyards, a proposal

2014-11-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Brian Gupta wrote: > We'll make and fund our own badge lanyards. This last part was not agreed and is not a decision to be taken by the fundraising team. If we are not getting them "for free", I'd rather we sponsored more people than spend money earned throu

[Debconf-team] DC16 bid submission deadline is close - How are the bids doing?

2014-11-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
Dear DC16-bid teams, We'd like to know who is out there preparing to submit a bid for DC16, and how you all are doing. Remember that the deadline is the end of this year. If you have questions, doubts, suggestions or need any kind of guidance, please feel free to ask. We may want to have an IRC

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 bid submission deadline is close - How are the bids doing?

2014-11-28 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > We'd like to know who is out there preparing to submit a bid for DC16, > and how you all are doing. Remember that the deadline is the end of > this year. Sorry for the confusion, the deadline is actually Dece

[Debconf-team] Coordination Team Meeting - Thursday, December 4th - 19 UTC

2014-11-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, The dudl result was quite close, but the winning option is Thursday 19:00 UTC, so we'll go with that one. This first meeting is going to be about the new team organization. We want to make sure that everyone is on the same page, that it's clear what each team has to do and clear any poss

[Debconf-team] Next Coordination Team Meeting - Tuesday, December 16th 19:00 UTC

2014-12-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, As expected today's meeting run longer than 1 hour, even without 2 teams being absent from it. The minutes and log are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-12-04-19.00.html There are quite a bunch of issues not related to the re-org that we still need to disc

Re: [Debconf-team] results from the cfp from the content team

2014-12-06 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > The content team is probably the team whose work is more independant from the > venue itself, so maybe we should prioritize here 'global people' over 'local > team' and keep only 2 people out of 10 from the 'local team'. Last year,

[Debconf-team] Next DC15 meeting: Monday, January 5th 2015 - 20:00 UTC

2014-12-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Minutes from today's meeting: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2014/debconf-team.2014-12-08-20.00.html Next DC15 IRC meeting to be held on 2015-01-05, 20:00 UTC. Agenda at: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/Minutes/2015-01-05 -- Besos, Marga _

[Debconf-team] DC16 timeline, bid decision committee and next steps

2014-12-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
We have two great bids for DC16 and now need to establish the rest of the timeline to reach a decision regarding who will get to carry Pollito home at the end of DC15 :). At this point, anyone interested in DebConf should feel free to start looking at the bids ([1] and [2]), to point out any neede

[Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 meeting today at 20:00 UTC

2015-01-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all! The holiday season is now getting behind us and we need to resume our work towards getting DC15 ready. Please be there for today's meeting at 20:00 UTC (about 7 hours from now). -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.

Re: [Debconf-team] Reminder: DC15 meeting today at 20:00 UTC

2015-01-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, The meeting was a bit chaotic as we had no real agenda, but I think it was productive. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2015/debconf-team.2015-01-05-20.00.html -- Besos, Marga ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@

[Debconf-team] DebConf Committe for the selection of the DC16 location

2015-01-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
bConf. The team representatives for this round will be: * Infrastructure: Richard Hartmann * Coordination: Margarita Manterola * Content: René Mayorga * Participant Assistance: Norman García * Fundraising: Patty Langasek And they'll be joined by: * Gunnar Wolf * Holger Levsen * Guido Trotter * P

[Debconf-team] DC15 - Prices and deals for non-sponsored attendees

2015-01-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! One of the things that we need to agree on before opening registration is attendee categories and prices for each of this. The hostel has agreed to handle the money for us. So any registered non-sponsored attendee will just arrive to the hostel on their arrival day, and pay to the hostel the

[Debconf-team] Question to Montreal Team: Prices for lodging

2015-01-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, I'm looking at the venue pages for the Montreal bid and the prices for accommodation are perhaps not clear enough >From https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Montreal/Venues/McGill: Many of them seem to cost the same for a single or a double room, is that correct? I assume this means

[Debconf-team] Question to Cape Town team: transportation to/from the venue

2015-01-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, For the UCT venue (the first choice venue) the current location information says: "Venue is about 7 minutes from the city centre, by car (no traffic). 45 minutes walk to the nearest bus stop. The venue is free, so budget for nightly chartered bus is reasonable" 45 minutes to the bus stop is r

[Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

2015-01-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, This is something that we've talked about with a lot of people, but possibly not on this list, so I'm sending this to make sure that we are all on the same page about this. For DebConf15 we would like to try something new regarding DebCamp. Instead of asking each person to come up with a

[Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

2015-01-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, We will have another IRC meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC. There's a bunch of stuff that we need to discuss, so if you are available, please join us. Current list of items in the agenda: * Summit status regarding DC15 * Data to request from attendees * Data to request in talk submissions * Pric

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Prices and deals for non-sponsored attendees

2015-01-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:41 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Richard Hartmann [2015-01-18 21:31 > +0100]: >> Swag is fine, but I think a coloured badge is overdoing things and will >> hurt the togetherness during DebConf. > How so? The idea is to show appreciation, not to give a d

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

2015-01-19 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> This is not a silver bullet to avoid people coming to DebCamp on >> vacation. But we think it's something that will help many people make >> the most of that time. > [quoting my mail to cont...@debconf.org] > I beg to disagree. While

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

2015-01-19 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, > The point is: what about those who have a non-sprint plan? > Will they be considered by boursaries team? The bursaries team will need to decide what they will do, and nothing in my mail claimed otherwise. We want to strongly encourage people to participate in the sprints and see how that g

Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 meeting tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

2015-01-19 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Minutes from today's meeting: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2015/debconf-team.2015-01-19-19.59.html We covered a lot of topics, although we didn't reach agreement on all of them. Thanks to everyone that attended. -- Besos, Marga ___ Debc

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