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Author Minutes fo DebConf5 IRC meeting of 20041003 at 20:00 UTC
Anibal Monsalve Salazar

2004-10-03, 9:18 pm

The minutes were done by Lars Wirzenius and are also at:

http://liw.iki.fi/liw/temp/dc5.txt

The logs of the meetings are at:

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~...5-20031003.html

The web page above have links that you can follow.

There were 30 nicks present at #debconf-team during the meeting.


DebConf5 IRC meeting October 3, 2004
====================================

This will be added to the DebConf wiki when it is done.

Minutes (and agenda)
--------------------

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

Start: 20:00 UTC

1) 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.

2) Finnish DDs 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: available
- fabbe: available
- part: available
- teroajk: available
- liiwi: available
- stockholm: available (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

3) Things to do (from http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebConf5Todo)

4) 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

5) Misc

- website is in the hands of michelle and _wolf_

6) 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 the
Argentinian living in New Zealand" was interested in the issue (mooch)
- possibly parallel tracks, with the help of ConfMS

7) 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)

8) 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

9) Conference management system

- gwolf has one (in the making), called comas
- should be done by December
- should be usable for CFP already in November

End: 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

Foo
---

* Status of food: nothing has changed (catering service of some kind will
be arranged); teroajk can help with this
* Social and sighseeing stuff, field trips, etc
* Regular meetings?

* Servers, networks, stuff
* Graphic artist?
* Recording talks and stuff (video files)?. Maybe even streaming them?

This that could be done better than earlier ones:

* Female t-shirts
* Transports between Otaniemi and airport, and Otaniemi and Helsinki downtown
* Accessibility for people with special needs


Erinn Clark

2004-10-04, 6:02 pm

* Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org> [2004:10:04 11:12 +1000]:
> 6) Talks

[...]
> - CFP deadline: Nov 1


In case it's not entirely obvious to everyone, the CFP deadline only refers
to when the CFP itself will be formalized, not when abstracts are due...

--
off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide

Martin Langhoff

2004-10-04, 6:02 pm

>
>
> - recording talks on video is a problem and a big job; "Martin the
> Argentinian living in New Zealand" was interested in the issue (mooch)
>


Did I hear someone call my name? ;)

I am keen on organizing the video capture and digitizing for the
conference. I can't, unfortunately, provide the gear, but I can prepare
the software and config stuff, and arrive a few days early to set things
up.

cheers,



martin

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Martin Langhoff

2004-10-07, 8:47 pm

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:57:38 +0200, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> The Fluendo guys have a nice track record of providing high-quality
> media streaming of Free Software conferences using Free codecs, e.g. at
> GUADEC (GNOME conference) and AKademy (KDE conference). Maybe we could
> team up with them for this, or at least ask them for support?


Yes, that is my initial thought. There are a few things I want to look
at, including Fluendo. the only thing that bugs me is that I was
hoping I could get the source for Fluendo, and I couldn't...

I'll get in touch with them, and report back.

cheers,


martin


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