DebConf5Meeting20041003
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People mentioned:
- aschwin: Aschwin van der Woude
- ateras: Arto Teräs
- fabbe: Fabian Fagerholm
- gwolf: Gunnar Wolf
- jbailey: Jeff Bailey
- killer: Kalle Kivimaa
- liiwi: Jaakko Niemi
- liw: Lars Wirzenius
- luciano: Luciano Bello
- mooch: Jesus Climent
- nchip: Riku Voipio
- part: Teemu Hukkanen
- stockholm: Andreas Schuldei
- tao: David Weinehall
- teroajk: Tero Kuusela
IRC log is at http://www.v7w.com/debconf5-20041003.html
Meeting started at 20:00 UTC.
- Dates and times and location of the event.
- mooch: Friday, July 1 through Monday, July 18
- Surrounding weekends for arrivals and departures, first week for hacking, middle weekend for social stuff, second week for talks. First week would be inofficial hacking, second week official debcamp + debconf. Infrastructure will have to work fully for the entire time, however.
- Official start on Sunday (July 10), with formal dinner.
- Debconf3: Friday through Thursday for hacking, Friday through Sunday for talks; too little time for talks
- Debconf4: more relaxed talk schedule, but still filled with bofs, and this made it difficult to attend to everything
- Building and conference rooms reserved for July 1 through 18. Bed rentals are included in the price.
- Finnish Debian developers or users with debconf experience, how much time and effort are they willing to put into this?
- mooch: employer pays to spend some time in organizing things
- nchip: a few hours per week beforehand, and most of debconf
- liw: 2-4 hours per week beforehand, don't yet know what during debconf
- killer: some time beforehand, don't yet know what during debconf
- tao: may be sponsored by employer to volunteer
- aschwin
- fabbe
- part
- teroajk
- liiwi
- stockholm (not in Finland, though)
- A core team of 2-3 people who keep track of all things and delegate as much stuff to volunteers on small jobs should work well; these people need to be local
- Things to do (from DebConf5Todo)
- Sponsorships
- stockholm: Nokia 10 000 euros, HP 30 000 euros
- many companies are still to be approach or haven't responded yet
- stockholm is in charge of this
- Linux-Aktivaattori will act as the legal and financial umbrella
- Misc
- website is in the hands of michelle and wolf
- Talks
- jbailey will be in charge of arranging things
- luciano is willing to translate to Spanish
- CFP deadline: Nov 1
- recording talks on video is a problem and a big job; Martin Langhoff was interested in the issue (mooch)
- possibly parallel tracks, with the help of ConfMS
- Travel costs and general sponsorships of people
- stockholm's proposal: a general call for "who needs sponsorship for travel or whatever" and then apply some common sense to the decisions; this needs to be done early enough so that cheap flights can be booked
- mainly to speakers and people who have done good things for Debian (including translators and such)
- Press
- jbailey, Linux-Aktivaattori (aschwin, fabbe), ateras will do press releases
- ateras: will try to get MikroPC to do a story
- stockholm: one PR when we have the preliminary list of talks ready, one when we open registration (about the same time), one afterwards
- Conference management system
- gwolf has one (in the making), called comas
- should be done by December
- should be usable for CFP already in November
Meeting ended 21:30 UTC.
Action points
- mooch, aschwin: DebConf5 web site needs to document public transportation options and costs. Also, a description of the Otaniemi area and the buildings and conference rooms.
- liw: ask Jukka Rajala if he still wants to help and to talk to michelle and wolf and damog if so.
- Someone (liw?) talk to Fluendo about video streaming talks
- stockholm: draft "call for travel sponsorships" and send it to -team and then to d-d-a
- aschwin, jbailey, ateras, fabbe: dc5 press coverage meeting (to figure out how they'll work together) on Sunday, 24 Oct, 20h00 (GMT) in #debconf-team
