| 23:00:25 |
Topic: Logo |
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| 23:08:14 |
AGREED | Hydroxide | Jimmy will send a deadline announcement to the list after this meeting, CCing the same people, and linking to the old thread |
| 23:09:11 |
LINK | MrBeige | http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/LogoContest |
| 23:09:14 |
Topic: PResentation |
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| 23:09:52 |
INFO | MrBeige | svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debconf-data/ |
| 23:10:09 |
INFO | MrBeige | svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data/ (with alioth login, ping us to get you added) |
| 23:10:56 |
INFO | Hydroxide | svn co svn://svn.debconf.org/debconf-data/dc10/ |
| 23:11:24 |
INFO | Hydroxide | current draft at http://rogue.kaplowitz.org/~jimmy/dc10pres.pdf |
| 23:11:43 |
INFO | Hydroxide | Clint needs debconf-data svn access |
| 23:12:18 |
Topic: stuff to add / avoid in the presentation |
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| 23:13:39 |
INFO | Hydroxide | goal of the dc10 presentation at dc9: convince people that dc10 will be awesome and that they should come |
| 23:13:55 |
INFO | Hydroxide | be positive, don't scare people away |
| 23:14:00 |
INFO | Clint | nyc has great tourist value |
| 23:14:16 |
INFO | MrBeige | morningside heights is not a megacity, it's a nice neighberhood |
| 23:14:34 |
INFO | Hydroxide | spanish widely spoken in the area |
| 23:14:43 |
INFO | MrBeige | maybe some information on airfares ? |
| 23:14:45 |
INFO | Hydroxide | near central park |
| 23:14:51 |
INFO | Hydroxide | and near riverside park |
| 23:15:18 |
INFO | MrBeige | columbia has a lot of tech resources, won't be hard to integrate with it |
| 23:16:01 |
INFO | Hydroxide | be brief and give one or two sample airfares - don't make it a full slide |
| 23:16:46 |
INFO | Clint | 24-hour transportation runs all over the city |
| 23:17:00 |
INFO | MrBeige | no cars needed anywhere |
| 23:17:07 |
INFO | Hydroxide | touch on handicapped accessibility, but leave most details for the website |
| 23:18:34 |
INFO | MrBeige | look at bid documents and see what the huge advantages for nyc were there, include them |
| 23:19:32 |
LINK | Hydroxide | http://www.iloveny.com/ |
| 23:19:43 |
LINK | Hydroxide | http://nycgo.com/ |
| 23:19:43 |
INFO | MrBeige | other nearby cities in the US |
| 23:20:11 |
INFO | Clint | or other attractive areas for tourism |
| 23:20:33 |
INFO | Hydroxide | we don't want to spend too much of the presentation on tourism (cf. "Don't have too much fun!") |
| 23:21:31 |
INFO | Hydroxide | reword "don't have too much fun" and a few other bits to be positive not negative |
| 23:22:03 |
INFO | MrBeige | emphasize *greatly* that NYC is incredibly multicultural and not at all like much of the rest of the US |
| 23:22:17 |
INFO | Hydroxide | visa and border issues are already in the presentation structure - details will be provided by Frank |
| 23:23:39 |
INFO | Hydroxide | mention taxi and limo stuff along with other transportation options |
| 23:24:11 |
INFO | Hydroxide | and helicopter (yes, it's available) |
| 23:24:33 |
INFO | Hydroxide | definitely talk about the food! |
| 23:25:06 |
INFO | Hydroxide | day-trip things should be mentioned |
| 23:25:34 |
INFO | Hydroxide | tourist daytrip options, naturalistic/explorational daytrip options, lesser-known urban bits daytrip options... |
| 23:25:40 |
INFO | bgupta | For transport mention yellow cabs, limo, and shuttle buses |
| 23:26:36 |
INFO | Hydroxide | photos of columbia |
| 23:26:41 |
INFO | Hydroxide | a map or two |
| 23:27:17 |
INFO | bgupta | brief info on nightlife |
| 23:27:18 |
INFO | Hydroxide | briefly mention NYC's nightlife |
| 23:27:42 |
INFO | MrBeige | < Clint> MrBeige: and like how there's something identifiable as a campus, unlike nyu |
| 23:28:46 |
INFO | bgupta | Make sure the columbia map is color if available |
| 23:29:28 |
Topic: dividing up the presentation work |
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| 23:30:22 |
INFO | Hydroxide | mention NYC weather in comparison to dc9 :) |
| 23:31:27 |
LINK | MrBeige | http://rkd.zgib.net/meetbot/debconf-nyc/2009/debconf-nyc.2009-06-30-23.00.html |
| 23:32:32 |
ACTION | MrBeige | MrBeige takes the venue parts |
| 23:32:49 |
ACTION | MrBeige | and MrBeige also takes morningside heights related sections (hopefully with some help) |
| 23:33:20 |
ACTION | Hydroxide | bgupta does the "yay NYC is great" parts |
| 23:33:33 |
ACTION | jvasile | jvasile will help with Morningside Heights, though it's been a few years since he lived there |
| 23:34:42 |
ACTION | Hydroxide | Jimmy will remind Frank about the visa/border stuff in the context of the presentation |
| 23:35:18 |
ACTION | Hydroxide | Jimmy will deal with the local team bit and the NYC transportation bit |
| 23:35:26 |
ACTION | Hydroxide | including airport |
| 23:37:55 |
INFO | MrBeige | if anyone doesn't know latex or latex-beamer, they can just throw data into the file and someone else will tex-ify or beamer-ify |
| 23:38:21 |
Topic: website |
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| 23:40:23 |
ACTION | MrBeige | Hydroxide requests alioth login for jvasile |
| 23:40:36 |
INFO | Hydroxide | alioth logins are self-creatable |
| 23:40:55 |
ACTION | MrBeige | Hydroxide requests jvasile added to -data repo |
| 23:41:22 |
INFO | Hydroxide | requests to be added to -data repo are initiated by the person who wants the access, and then Hydroxide prods the -data admins |
| 23:42:57 |
INFO | Hydroxide | Clint may help - can't say for sure yet |
| 23:43:07 |
INFO | Hydroxide | Clint will probably do at least some website help |
| 23:43:24 |
LINK | Hydroxide | http://debconf10.debconf.org/ |
| 23:44:03 |
Topic: web redesign |
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| 23:44:51 |
INFO | Hydroxide | bgupta will help with website content too |
| 23:46:47 |
ACTION | Hydroxide | bgupta will find someone who might want to help with website visual redesign and will have them email debconf10-localteam@lists.debconf.org |
| 23:46:56 |
Topic: goals for DebCamp9 |
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| 23:49:02 |
INFO | Hydroxide | dc10 site redesign doesn't have to happen before dc9, though it can if things magically work out that way |
| 23:51:02 |
INFO | Hydroxide | goals for debcamp9: sponsor pack + loose ends |
| 23:51:26 |
Topic: Anyone else need debconf-data SVN write access? |
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| 23:51:48 |
INFO | Hydroxide | if you want access later, contact Jimmy (Hydroxide) |
| 23:52:01 |
Topic: When to let the US press start writing about DC10 |
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| 23:52:22 |
INFO | Hydroxide | bgupta already found an eweek.com reporter who wants to write about the first US debconf |
| 23:52:42 |
INFO | Hydroxide | so far we're waiting on that until after dc9 occurs and/or the dc10 dates are set. should we change this? |
| 23:53:44 |
INFO | bgupta | eweek reporter has also offered to help us get more press contacts. |
| 23:54:15 |
INFO | Hydroxide | future meeting agenda topic, probably good to resolve before press coverage: determine what OpenDay for DC10 is like |
| 23:56:42 |
Topic: brief mention: visa meeting with Frank |
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| 23:57:22 |
INFO | Hydroxide | we couldn't have Frank here to discuss visa/border issues as originally planned, due to Frank's travel schedule |
| 23:57:33 |
INFO | Hydroxide | we will have that meeting when he is back, plus do status updates on stuff we talked about today |
| 23:57:45 |
Topic: Next meeting |
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| 23:59:33 |
AGREED | Hydroxide | doodle poll for week of 12th-18th |
| 23:59:40 |
Topic: Any other business |
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| 00:06:39 |
ACTION | MrBeige | everyone probs MrBeige to do DC10 work, not DC9 work |
Meeting ended at 00:07:40 UTC.
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