Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] DC10 date options

2009-10-14 Thread Micah Anderson
I didn't want to co-mingle my vote with the additional data I was providing in the previous email, so this one counts as my vote. * Jimmy Kaplowitz [2009-10-14 12:24-0400]: > a) June 12th-27th (including setup, debcamp, debconf, departure/cleanup) > > Pros: - nicer weather (less hot/humid than

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] DC10 date options

2009-10-14 Thread Micah Anderson
A little extra information about which buildings, and where those buildings are, might help folks with some additional data, such as time/space calculations for logistical purposes. Have a look at this map: http://xrl.us/begiw9 Primarily, the sessions, hacklabs, etc. will be held in the Columbia

Re: [Debconf-team] "Talks Selection Retreat Day" - Tues, May 4th, tentative

2010-05-05 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 4 May 2010 17:12:15 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On May 4, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote: > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > > wrote: > >> On 05/03/2010 05:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >>> The key idea of the retreat is for local peo

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] bursary team and global vs. local

2010-05-05 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:18:05 -0400, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > > > From a process perspective, this is very confusing. > > I apologize for the confusion this process caused. At the March 17th > Global Team meeting (and until recently) I was unaware of the previous > volunteers for the bursar

Re: [Debconf-team] "Talks Selection Retreat Day" - Tues, May 4th, tentative

2010-05-06 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 4 May 2010 13:23:59 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On May 3, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > On 05/03/2010 05:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> The key idea of the retreat is for local people to get together to be > >> able to talk about the apps and

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] bursary team and global vs. local

2010-05-06 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:47 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi Micah, > > Thanks for sending such a thoughtful (if long) email. My thoughts are below. Yeah, sorry it was long, I was wanting to make sure I detailed the concern while still remaining civil and not accusing anyone of any bad faith.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Thanking our sponsors

2010-05-25 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:57:29 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:37:55PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Pablo Duboue > > wrote: > > > > > A long while somebody in #debconf-team asked if we can have plain > > > t-shirts available for sa

Re: [Debconf-team] number of talks to be accepted?

2010-05-25 Thread micah anderson
Note to debconf-team: this thread has been moved from the talks private alias, as it was decided it was better to have it on debconf-team. On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:46:38 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 05/25/2010 02:15 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> Looking at the number of submissions we got

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Thanking our sponsors

2010-05-28 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 28 May 2010 14:21:04 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:19:16AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Pablo Duboue dijo [Sat, May 22, 2010 at 02:31:30PM -0400]: > > > A long while somebody in #debconf-team asked if we can have plain > > > t-shirts available for sale without s

Re: [Debconf-team] Opening and closing plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:23:41 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:01:26PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > Opening plenary: > > > > https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/644 Closi

Re: [Debconf-team] TALKS: advocating broader relevance

2010-05-28 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:50:27 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Your e-mail referred a couple times to a "FLOSS track", but i think > there is no current FLOSS track, according to [0]. Do you mean the > Community Outreach track? Or do you mean more broadly talks that are > more about FLOSS t

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks team meeting at 23:00 UTC

2010-06-01 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:07:35 -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > wrote: > > Hi debconf people-- > > > > This is a reminder that the dc10 talks team is meeting today on IRC (and > > local folks in person as well) at 23:00 UTC (7pm NYC time). > > > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-06-01 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 31 May 2010 22:37:25 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Ana Guerrero dijo [Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:24:10AM +0200]: > > * Cutting in sponsored food, this can be done in several ways: > > - Do not sponsor breakfast (we did this in México and worked well) > > Agree - After all, breakfast is the l

Re: [Debconf-team] Action plan on sponsorship

2010-06-01 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 31 May 2010 22:44:34 +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:40:19PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I created this page last night > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/SponsorshipReview > > to use for drafting plans for a sponsorship review. So far th

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:14:41 +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > What we did > > --- > > We tried to decide which talks would be scheduled for the two main rooms > > ("interschool" and "davis") during daytime hours, addressing it as a > > challenge to "cut" proposals based on (a) the ratings in

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-03 Thread micah anderson
t before i feel like going ahead with it in full: > > On 06/03/2010 02:59 PM, micah anderson wrote: > > I would propose that the best way forward, at this point, taking into > > considerations all the discussions here and on IRC would be this: > > > > 1. send an accep

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

2010-06-04 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:11:54 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 06/04/2010 12:37 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote: > > We appreciate your interest and the time you invested in putting > > together your proposed event. Our talk selection committee felt > > your submission on its current form would not a

Re: [Debconf-team] People who signed up for sponsorship too late

2010-06-04 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:26:46 -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:16:11AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > > 21 people had sponsorship reduced. I'm sending names to registration@ > > (and can do herb@ if desired). > > So, it's clear that this is hard for some attendees (made w

Re: [Debconf-team] People who signed up for sponsorship too late

2010-06-04 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:15:28 -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > > was that talk accepted? > > It is marked as 'undecided candidate', so I guess that means 'no' I think it means yes based on what we have recently discussed. m pgpQeruuHhsbL.p

[Debconf-team] Subject tags?

2010-06-14 Thread Micah Anderson
Since we aren't splitting up the different working groups into their own mailing list, and instead favoring sending things to debconf-team, maybe it would help people if we used subject tags to differentiate things? We don't need to all agree on what they would be, people can just use whatever th

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 scheduling is available

2010-06-16 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:23:54 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > PS evening/social events have not been scheduled yet at all. Micah, > were you following up on those? Could you give a reportback when you > get a chance? I am still following-up on these, will report back when I have something

Re: [Debconf-team] Networking agenda

2010-06-17 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:10:36 -0400, micah wrote: > I'm also curious to know a few things from past debconfs, such as > previous network bandwidth usage patterns, expected network services, > lessons learned from past, other considerations we need to take into > account. Also, do we have any equi

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 scheduling is available

2010-06-17 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:35:58 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Gunnar Wolf (gw...@gwolf.org): > > > FWIW, I was discussing this with a friend yesterday, and he told me he > > has repeatedly entered the US with not-huge-but-large (i.e. 2Kg) of > > fresh and semi-mature cheeses, and just a

Re: [Debconf-team] [venue] hours for security

2010-06-29 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:13:33 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:24:05AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:55:25PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > The current plan is: > > > > > > - Use Mudd as the hacklabs until XX:XX in the

Re: [Debconf-team] [venue] hours for security

2010-06-29 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:58:04 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:56 AM, micah anderson wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:13:33 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:24:05AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > >

Re: [Debconf-team] is there a need for a global-team meeting?

2010-06-29 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:29:15 -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:17:48PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: > > > I know these global team meetings are customary but if we are having > > them out of habit and they don't serve any real purpose we can as well > > skip them for the time

Re: [Debconf-team] is there a need for a global-team meeting?

2010-07-01 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:05:16 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > If you mean a RL, face2face meeting when you say local meeting, I have to > object. Those meetings lack transparency and the option to participate for > non local people. I just wanted to point out that the local meetings have not been

Re: [Debconf-team] [venue] hours for security

2010-07-02 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:23:21 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hmm.. maybe shift three hours, and pay the extra $275 x 2 = $550. That > > way for $550 we could have the DebConf hacklab be open 24 hours and, > > and DebCamp be open from 8am-11pm. This seems like a reasonable compromise, and would b

Re: [Debconf-team] non-JJ food meeting summary

2010-07-05 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:21:19 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > - Those who are not paying per meal (sponsored-food, Professional, > Corporate) will have prepaid VISA signature-only debit cards restricted to > use only at restaurants and grocery stores. https://www.wrl.com/ (WRL) is the > vendor

Re: [Debconf-team] day trip options

2010-07-06 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:21:40 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 6. Juli 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Given the current budget considerations and after reading Zack's mail > > which well summarizes my own views on how seriously the money flow > > should be taken, I would suggest *not*

Re: [Debconf-team] T-shirt plan - to be executed soon!

2010-07-06 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:50:11 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > * We give everyone an attendee shirt (purple since that was one of two colors > preferred and I heard objections to canary from some people). > > * We also give "staff" shirts (black) to everyone who deserves a "you helped > us > out"

Re: [Debconf-team] UPDATE we can sponsor 70 % of queue B now and 100% queue A (proposal inside)

2010-07-08 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:17:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ please Cc:-me on replies ] > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:20:26PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > I added to the budget the donations from FFIS (~680USD) and we have > > a drop out in queue A. This is 2000USD more, that means more mo

Re: [Debconf-team] UPDATE we can sponsor 70 % of queue B now, and 100% queue A (proposal inside)

2010-07-08 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:19:30 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:59:23 -0400, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > > > > > FWIW I agree with that and I believe queue B people should be mailed > > I also agree to queue A to 100% and queue B to 70% now. > > > > Me 2. The sooner we get this

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Debian Day Description

2010-07-11 Thread micah anderson
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:28:50 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:12:37AM -0400, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > > 1. Do we need a link for directions? Or is the map of Columbia > > University campus enough? I suspect the latter > > We could probably do with someone artistic re-doing

Re: [Debconf-team] Nametags holders/puncher (was: Re: Next global team meeting: Saturday 10th at 19UTC)

2010-07-12 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:14:49 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > The nametags I'd need to buy and I'd need to plan doing so, my hours until > takeoff have become very limited... so please tell me until this time > tomorrow, if & how many. Raphael has been making a design for these, presumably the na

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions regarding sponsorships

2010-07-12 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:05:21 -0300, Rogério Theodoro de Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > I am attending this year's DebConf (it will be my first DebConf ever) > and I have requested sponsored food and accommodation. > > I would appreciate if you could give any pointers regarding the > situation

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] About BoF scheduled not on time

2010-07-12 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:19:52 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Montag, 12. Juli 2010, Richard Darst wrote: > > Hm - that's unfortunate. It's a waste to have a room but lock people > > out of it just because there are cameras in it. Let's work during the > > camp/conf and see what we can

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] About BoF scheduled not on time

2010-07-13 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:32:06 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010, micah anderson wrote: > > Its going to have to, and we have already spent far too much time in the > > last months discussing this and scheduling things to re-open it > > now. This w

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions regarding sponsorships

2010-07-15 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:08:05 -0300, Rogério Theodoro de Brito wrote: > I have two questions: > > 1 - Could I suggest a confirmation flag to appear on pentabarf to make > it clear to the user that one or another of his requests are being > dealt with? This wont happen for Debconf 10 (unless you

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

2010-07-15 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:34:09 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/15/2010 01:16 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Regarding the Schedule, it looks fine, BUT there shouldn't be > > something scheduled at the same time that the group photo. This was > > scheduled during the afternoon break a

Re: [Debconf-team] server settup and network testing

2010-07-17 Thread micah anderson
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:06:51 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > My traceroute [v0.73] > > umbra (0.0.0.0) > Thu Jul 15 15:50:28 2010 > Host Loss% Snt > Last Avg Best Wr

Re: [Debconf-team] Penta

2010-07-21 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:38:11 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I got the following message about penta from a friend. Could someone > with write access to the web site please look at fixing them? > > (note that this user does not have the SPI root CA in their certificate > list) these and ot

Re: [Debconf-team] Nametags design

2010-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:05:48 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:51:25AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > * do we want to include the spoken languages? in the samples I've included > > them, but I wonder if it has any practical use. > > * same question for the "Orga/Attendee/

Re: [Debconf-team] Print a schedule for tomorrow?

2010-08-02 Thread micah anderson
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:51:53 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Samstag, 31. Juli 2010, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > > Should we print like 60 scheudles of the talks for tomorrow? Most Debian > > Day attendees will not have thier computers so this might be a good idea. > > yeah :) thanks to jonah,

[Debconf-team] Debconf10 leftovers

2010-09-25 Thread Micah Anderson
This is a rough inventory of all the stuff that is still sitting at our apartment. We would like to no longer be storing it, and am hoping people will have better ideas of what to do with different things. * HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni ** Black toner note: bdale said that this should be given to

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf10 leftovers

2010-09-28 Thread micah anderson
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:35:10 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Micah, > > On Samstag, 25. September 2010, Micah Anderson wrote: > > * 10 Buffalos > > please send them to DebConf11 - they should be useful for DebConf11-20 or > so :-) Address? Also, my own opinion of

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Debconf10 leftovers

2010-09-28 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:17:57 +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > >> Address? > > > > Adnan? > > Send it to the NGO address: Am I only sending the buffalos? If I am going to be mailing something there, I'd like to make sure there isn't going to be other things that should also be sent there that could g

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Debconf10 leftovers

2010-09-29 Thread micah anderson
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:43:59 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > > > Also, does it need to be mailed? Can it wait until the next DebConf > > > and be carried by somebody from the area traveling to Banja Luka? > > > Mailing something like that wil

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Debconf10 leftovers

2010-09-29 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:39:29 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:06 PM, micah anderson wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:43:59 -0400, Brian Gupta > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Adnan Hodzic > > wrote: > > >

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Debconf10 leftovers

2010-11-06 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:01:13 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > Upon further reflection, a cab can do the trick. It just needs a higher > level of coordination. It would be really great if I could take care of this soon. What would work for you? m pgpwLj7QX0FDE.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Debconf-team] Extra money we forgot we had

2010-11-16 Thread micah anderson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 22:47:27 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I know I'm perpetually optimistic, but in this case I have physical evidence > to > back it up. At the end of DebConf9, we had a bunch of leftover physical > currency in euros, which I counted and brought back to the US

Re: [Debconf-team] Official announcement of Managua BID for Debconf12

2011-01-04 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:34:47 -0600, Eduardo Rosales wrote: > We are proud to announce the DebConf12 bid for Managua, Nicaragua. Managua > is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality > by the same name. It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population > and

Re: [Debconf-team] Early travel sponsorship

2011-06-07 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:53:20 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:17:30 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > someone approached me today with the following thought / idea: > > As is perhaps obvious, that was me. > > See my ramblings in the other thread just now. Sorry ab

Re: [Debconf-team] Invitación

2011-06-30 Thread micah anderson
Hi, It seems to me that the original request in the email has not been answered, specifically: Para que la universidad otorgue el permiso correspondiente a los días de ausencia es necesario una carta de invitación emitida por los organizadores del evento. De ser posible la emisión de d

Re: [Debconf-team] Invitación

2011-06-30 Thread micah anderson
en español: Hola Horacio, Por favor enviar un email a registrat...@debconf.org con la información por de ambos: Nombre completo, número de pasaporte y su dirección actual (donde vive). Vamos a ofrecer a los dos con una carta de invitación. Muchas gracias! On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:06:47 +0200,

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Internet connection

2011-07-09 Thread micah anderson
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 18:13:20 +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Adnan, > > > > On Samstag, 9. Juli 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > >> > when was the last time you spoke with sarnet about this? are you sure > >> > they know they should set up the link

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-20 Thread micah anderson
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:07:25 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi all, > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:00:40PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:57:54 -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > ... > > > Some of us would just like to make a donation, additional sponsorship, > > > or donate

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:59:44 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > No, but they did provide quite a detailed response to what they're doing for > Debian, as you did, and they paid quite a significant sum toward their costs > by > the standards of many Debian Developer budgets, despite not properly > e

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:59:44 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > One more thing: in a lot of the mails and other communications from several of > the people asking me these questions, I'm inferring lots of suspicions of > favoritism or impropriety or cliqueishness or some kind of personalized action

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:02:30 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > This would be very useful indeed, so that next year's team can be aware of > additional transparency / appearance-of-impropriety gotchas and avoid them > better than we did. Based on this thread we had at least the appearance of > doing

Re: [Debconf-team] Special sponsorship

2011-07-22 Thread micah anderson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:49:17 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it > > included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am > > further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10. > > I don't think Clint sh

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf12-Water

2012-05-25 Thread micah anderson
Aura Lila Gutierrez Tejada writes: > 2012/5/24 Felix Delattre > >> On 05/24/2012 03:18 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: >> > Hello team, >> > >> > the local food team has a doubt concerning the water. Holger took the >> > water from the tap during his trip here and we all drink from the tap. >> > But s

Re: [Debconf-team] reading thru the meeting logs...

2012-10-25 Thread micah anderson
Moray Allan writes: > On 2012-10-25 01:39, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> Right. Emergency mode rarely makes us take the best >> decisions. However, in order to get the number closer in line with >> the >> forseen numbers, we can assume no travel sponsorship will be >> paid. That will mean we have to bud

Re: [Debconf-team] reading thru the meeting logs...

2012-10-25 Thread micah anderson
David Bremner writes: > micah anderson writes: > >> I want to emphasis a bit what Moray wrote above. If travel sponsorship >> is eliminated because other things are too expensive, that results in a >> Debconf where only people who can afford to go can go. It raises the

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 Tech Team

2013-02-19 Thread micah anderson
Philipp Hug writes: > Hi List, > > It's still a few months until DebConf, but we should get the DebConf13 > Networking/Tech team started. > As a first step, we need to know what tasks need to be done and who > will be interested in helping with what. > If you're interested in helping, I cc'ed so

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

2013-03-15 Thread micah anderson
Gunnar Wolf writes: > USA, the eternal debate > === > There is also this tradition we have of not repeating countries. Of > course, being the USA such a large country, and being its Debian > population so large, I would not give much weight to the argument, but > I have seen i

Re: [Debconf-team] Food [Re: Registration questions]

2015-02-05 Thread micah anderson
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > On Thu 2015-02-05 03:13:46 -0500, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> On 02/05/2015 02:29 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: >>> While I am in the group that sometimes wished they could eat the >>> vegetarian dish, because it looked tastier, or because they wanted to >>> skip meat