Re: [Debconf-team] Potential hardware loan from BelWue

ches are generally good for that. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

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

> If you have questions, doubts, suggestions or need any kind of > guidance, please feel free to ask. We have a few people with experience on the team. Nothing I can think of, right now. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272

[Debconf-team] DC16 Cape Town bid announcement

te a few unknowns for the backup venues, but we will try to flesh them out over the upcoming weeks. Herewith, the bid: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Cape_Town SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 signature.asc Description: Digital signature _

Re: [Debconf-team] Bootstrapping the DebConf infrastructure team

ferences forever, and can move ahead with backwards-incompatible changes. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

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

oncerned with. I feel perfectly safe in all of the venues that we propose. We want our attendees to be safe, and have a good experience. We can certainly help this by providing transport to off-campus entertainment areas in the evenings. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +

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

ot of crime. They'll almost certainly be fine, anywhere in the city. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

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

x27;t feel safe, walking in, but I'll still do it, and just be a little more aware of my surroundings. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

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

are going to be taking taxis, please add info as to how much they > would cost and how we would get them (i.e. are there any caveats at > taking taxis at the airport, do they just go by the venue or would we > need to call them, etc). Sure, we can improve t

Re: [Debconf-team] Using the BTS as a summit issue tracker

o the BTS, and yes, a summit.debconf.org pseudo-package sounds like what we'd want. Running entirely from a packaged summit is probably a long way off, if even possible. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] decentralization of travel sponsorship

s years, and can help set a sane budget. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

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

e in morning rush hour. We have got several quotes for shuttles: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Cape_Town/venue_details#Transport_jottings Our preferred option would probably be UCT's own student shuttle system (Jammie shuttles), but we haven't managed to get a mee

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

Hi Richard (2015.01.18_02:13:13_+0200) > Will the Jammie buses run while we are on site? If not, could we rent > those when need be? This is not yet known. They do usually run on a reduced schedule during holidays, though. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 68

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

IPv4 space, could we get a /20 or so without > firewalling to use as we please? I don't know how easy it would be for them to deploy an SSID for us, but we are going to try and investigate this. We can certainly get some un-firewalled IPs. How big a block, I don't kno

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 - Question to Cape Town: Supermarket(s) near Upper Campus

al restaurants and bars clustered around the shopping centres. There's a wide variety of food, mostly cheap, open late, and catering to students. The one exception is the Hussars Grill - a fancier steak house. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 _

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 - Flight prices comparison

Hi Margarita (2015.01.24_19:25:38_+0200) > Cape Town: 1000 USD (! 500 USD cheaper than the other way round !?) Spot the tourism destination. (Airline pricing is horrifically complicated. Where you book from also matters.) SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3

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

city that doesn't have excellent public transport. However, taxis are cheap enough that missing a shuttle wouldn't be the end of the world. I see R50-80 (€4-6) estimated for an Uber between UCT and Long St in town (the central night-life street).

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

Main Road breaks off to the right. This has restaurants and bars all the way down it, to Station Road. There's a lot around. Not all in the immediate vicinity, but quite walkable. And a very cheap taxi ride away. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 __

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about DebConf bids

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Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Costs

.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/bid-capetown.git/plain/venue_info/debconf16_cost_comparison.ods We estimate R9000 per day for 200 people and R15000 per day for 300 for the conference facilities at Breakwater campus. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.o

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Decision Meeting - Second take

riate wiki page for each of those here: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Cape_Town/Status#Since_the_first_meeting If anyone has any more questions that you'd like addressed before the meeting, please let us know. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Decision Meeting - Second take

radar. We should also not expect to be able to make instant international transfers. Some times they will be immediate, sometimes they may take a few days. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing lis

Re: [Debconf-team] registration sprint video

Hi Wouter (2015.08.14_13:48:12_+0200) > I probably need to talk to Holger to be able to upload those videos to > video.debian.net, but for now you can access them directly from the > encoding server. I can do that. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415

Re: [Debconf-team] Leftovers from venue - debian.ch stuff, french power strips etc

power strips that had been bought, so we've more than replenished our supplies :) You're welcome to do whatever you want with them, the video team doesn't need them. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debc

[Debconf-team] Scheduling DC16 meetings

ng on the old schedule: #debconf16-capetown, at 18:30 UTC on Wednesday 9th: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Meetings/2015-09-09 Hopefully we can announce the new schedule by the end of this week. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683

Re: [Debconf-team] Scheduling DC16 meetings

that sounds fine. > (21:00 SAST, which is 19:00 UTC and 20:00UTC after DST...) UTC is not affected by daylight savings. Are you suggesting we move to 20:00 UTC (an hour later in ZA) when the northern hemisphere does its DST thing? SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.z

Re: [Debconf-team] Scheduling DC16 meetings

Is the complication of the two meeting times worth it? SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf meetings this week

one-off. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf meetings this week

le. I'd recommend forgetting about it. > Could someone explain the purpose of the co-ordination team? I'd say, to keep on top of the important issues, and make sure DebConf happens. But everyone will probably give you a different definition. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumble

Re: [Debconf-team] 'meeting' tonight: General discussion

dinate it with a trip to Cape Town. We haven't really discussed this with anyone else, yet. So, I don't know if anyone else would be keen. If I can just tack this on to a holiday in Cape Town, I wouldn't need any funding. SR -- Stefano

[Debconf-team] Meeting 2015-11-25 18:30 UTC

Weekly meeting reminder. Agenda: http://deb.li/DC16meet1 - please edit Past minutes: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Meetings SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team

[Debconf-team] Meeting reminder: 6 January 18:30 UTC

ds, but we generally need more of that) * DC17 status SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions / Information for pre-registration, please review

of email addresses. Those would then get promoted to full-blown accounts later, if they need it, and we implement it. Requiring e-mail addreses for babies sucks. But for a faraway DC16, I'm guessing there won't be many. And implementation-wise, it's the simplest. SR -- Stefano

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions / Information for pre-registration, please review

g. Yes, and we'll need to know if people want travel sponsorship, etc. We don't plan to be making any of these decisions based on purely pre-registration, though, do we? SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 __

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions / Information for pre-registration, please review

Hi debconf-team (2016.02.04_02:49:04_+0200) > [ ] Will require sponsorship This could require a bit of clarification. Do we consider "free attendance" to be requiring sponsorship? I think most of us do, but presumably some attendees don't. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbl

Re: [Debconf-team] Day Trips

don't think DebConf attendees will be *that* interested in the more professional tours (at least, that's not normally the kind of thing we offer). But these options are great for people who are looking to do something outside DebConf, and we should make that more obvious, to them, on the wiki.

Re: [Debconf-team] Custom made, Conference Bags

Hi Tammy (2016.05.30_13:17:50_+0200) > There are a couple of Colour options, Plain or Multicoloured. They look great. A quick poll on IRC says everyone likes option 2 for the liner. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3

Re: [Debconf-team] Banners

Hi Tammy (2016.05.30_21:44:21_+0200) > 3) How many Podiums are there, for us to add banners? 3 Talk rooms with video coverage. There'll be a few BoF rooms too, but I bet they don't need banners. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1

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

the video NOC (Menzies 11A). SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +27 72 419 8559 +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] Some questions

n to residence road. The best he can get is down to university avenue, through the leslie buildings. These will be more open during the week. Or Graham can get him a 3rd party access card? :) SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +27 72 419 8559 +

[Debconf-team] Handover BoF moved to Saturday

Due to a clash with Penguins at the aquarium, we've moved the Handover BoF to 11:10am on Saturday. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +27 72 419 8559 +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf16

DebConf check that your reimbursements are listed in journal.ledger [0] [0]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/dc16.git/tree/budget/journal.ledger SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +27 72 419 8559 +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debc

[Debconf-team] DC16 Financial Report

ected -2,039,187.15 ZARsponsors:committed -531,736.54 ZAR SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Debconf-team] DC16 Financial Report

penses and everything else was booked as discretionary. This included things like bus hire for the day trips, front desk expenses, network cable, and a full team (DPL-authorised) farewell dinner. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 __

Re: [Debconf-team] Dear wafer-masters, please add to stylesheet...

ed upstream at https://github.com/CTPUG/wafer/issues/141 SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272 ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team

Re: [Debconf-team] [debconf-team] Weekly meeting (Monday Aug 21 14:00 UTC), and polling for next meeting time

te between 13:00 and 01:00 so that everyone can attend? And schedule website related discussion in the 01:00 meetings. I struggled to stay in sync with the dc17 local team, once they moved meetings too early for me to be awake. I would like to avoid a repeat of that. SR -- Stefano Rivera http