18:03:54 #startmeeting Global team meeint 18:03:54 Meeting started Wed Feb 22 18:03:54 2012 UTC. The chair is moray. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 18:03:54 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 18:04:04 #topic DebConf13: Do we have a winner yet? 18:04:06 (currently chasing some pictures I did not credit in the report) 18:04:06 Yes. 18:04:14 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team 18:04:26 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team -- Venue 18:04:47 so, venue status? 18:04:48 alright 18:05:01 eek 18:05:02 So... as you all may know, we have two candidates for dc12 venue: Ticomo and Crowne Plaza 18:05:02 (can I say I'm impressed at my own typo of 'meeint', but never mind) 18:05:07 i thought it was 19 utc... 18:05:09 sigh 18:05:20 Ticomo: 18:05:29 We've been researching about the possibility to have the (cheaper) Ticomo Hotel option for DebConf. 18:05:50 The biggest problem we have encountered so far is the connectivity. The venue is located outside downtown Managua and the local ISPs don't have the infrastructure to provide a stable and reliable Internet connectivity. There is only a possibility to put fiber optical cable for around one km on our expenses to assure good internet connection. 18:06:05 Another potential problem is the power supply. Power outages are common in July (beginning of the rain season) and the hotel doesn't have enough power plants (neither a suitable system to handle outages without any breaks) 18:06:20 As we mentioned in previous meeting, there's other difficulties, such as the accesibility that needs to be adressed if we want use Ticomo as the main venue. 18:06:36 For information, do you know a real price for the cable installation? 18:06:45 Apart from "expensive" 18:06:56 moray, not yet 18:07:10 But you haven't ruled out Ticomo yet? 18:07:25 If it's ruled out, are we definitely using CP, or is there any third option? 18:07:27 moray, no... but it's not looking good :( 18:07:34 moray: we are waiting the costs from 2 ISP 18:07:45 When do we need to confirm with CP? Or we already 'confirmed', just didn't pay yet? 18:07:47 so... about Crowne Plaza 18:08:00 The biggest problem we have encountered so far is the costs of this venue ($200.000+). We have to do a lot of work in fundaraising. There is fiber optical cable available in distance of meters (maybe 100m) away from the venue, we would have to put it either way. 18:08:23 leogg: Has the cost gone up‽ I don't remember having seen such a high figure 18:08:29 moray, we have a pre-reservation on the venue 18:08:56 gwolf: there haven't been a complete estimate at any time :-S 18:08:59 gwolf, it's the same price, but we're negotiating 18:09:06 bufff... 18:09:21 *hasn't 18:09:28 100k USD? 18:09:31 we received a new quote yesterday and we're looking into making a new estimate 18:09:58 I think we can get this figure down, but no less than 150K 18:10:10 if we use the cheaper hotels around CP 18:11:13 200k for venue and accommodation? 18:11:25 and we still have many other expenses 18:11:32 USD? 18:11:41 aroundthfur, 200K for the whole event 18:11:44 ...this is way over whatever has been estimated, /mefears 18:11:46 h01ger, yes, USD 18:11:49 yes, aroundthfur: venue, accommodation, food for 150 people first week, 300 people second week 18:11:54 leogg: 200K including otherstuff? 18:11:55 aaah 18:11:56 ok 18:11:59 gwolf, yes 18:12:19 (hah... but still not including travel sponsorship, daytrip, tshirts, foobar...) 18:12:21 ok, that's not a 'venue' price 18:12:27 still high of course 18:12:32 gwolf, including sponsorships 18:12:44 daytrip, shirts, etc 18:12:46 'venue' price is how much the talk/dicussion rooms etc. cost 18:12:50 leogg: what is just for the venue? 18:13:11 gwolf: around 40K as i remember 18:13:15 moray, gwolf, just the venue is around 50K 18:13:16 perhaps you can post a break-down to -team? 18:13:18 leogg, xamanu so the 200k is for everything we need? 18:13:23 aroundthfur, yes 18:13:38 moray, the preliminary budget is in svn 18:13:41 that seems ok-ish i think (if we can get enough sponsors..) 18:14:16 leogg: right, it's still useful to post to -team for thoughts 18:14:16 venue withour negotiation is $48,990 so far 18:14:17 but as I said, we should/must get it down to around 150K... and I think it's doable 18:14:22 ok, that is way better 18:14:35 moray, right! will do it after the meeting 18:14:45 * h01ger relocates and shall properly join+attend the meeting in 10min 18:15:03 the *venue* itself we've often had free 18:15:18 moray: well, we knew it would be our main expense in Nicaragua 18:15:34 gwolf: it's not 'main' if it's 50 out of 200 18:15:51 I'm still concerned if the spaces we are getting for this are enough 18:16:02 last time we discussed it, the hacklab spaces, e.g., were very small 18:16:04 at some point the UNAN campus was considered IIRC, but it's definitively not accessible and far from lodging spaces 18:16:05 moray, gwolf, the other big expense is the accomodation 18:16:36 the floor plans for CP are over here ---> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/Venue 18:17:08 right, my question is if anything changed 18:17:15 it's still the same tiny rooms for lots of money? 18:17:17 leogg, the large hall that can fit 350 ppl is just for one day? 18:17:38 aroundthfur: we were discussing a bit yesterday about that large hall 18:17:42 moray, they're going to give us a discount for the small rooms 18:17:45 ah yes, sorry 18:17:57 aroundthfur, that's right... only for debian day 18:18:04 I suggested them _not_ to use that room - but I think we should wait for h01ger's comeback to discuss that point 18:18:10 leogg: there was a question before if there was additional space that could be used for hacklabs 18:18:18 (but still IIRC it does not make THAT much of a difference - it was in the US$2K range) 18:18:20 leogg: preferably not-charged-for space 18:18:23 gwolf, we'll talk about that when discussing debian day 18:18:29 leogg: right 18:18:58 moray, they're charging us just for electricity/security afaik 18:19:05 but it's still expensive 18:19:20 ...But well, xamanu stated the venue is $48,990 before negotiation... I still hope that venue+hotel can be brought down after negotiating 18:19:44 leogg: but we have to consider this as a tax avoiding trick not a nice step by them ;-) 18:19:48 right. again, while the information is in the wiki, in svn etc., it would still be useful to post clear summaries to the list 18:19:51 gwolf, the hotel is more complicated to negotiate as there are not that many multiple rooms at CP 18:19:58 xamanu: ??? 18:20:11 so a summary for budget 18:20:12 xamanu, right... all these numbers are with tax included 18:20:22 a summary for the CP venue room/prices etc. 18:20:26 and a summary for hotel options 18:20:36 xamanu: what kind of tax evasion scheme are we getting into? 18:20:37 we hope to avoid taxes... so it will go down aprox 17% 18:20:47 I think we'd then have a more useful discussion than trying to work out the details just now 18:21:05 gwolf: as leogg said they are not charging us rent they are charging us electricity and security. I assume that this is a trick f by them. 18:21:06 since it seems there is no useful decision to be made today, if you're still waiting for details on Ticomo 18:21:10 moray, I'll post it to -team as soon as we have it 18:21:19 gwolf: we are not getting into any. 18:21:36 leogg: right, the 3 summaries would be useful -- 2 at least should just be cut and pasting stuff you have in the wiki/svn 18:22:00 moray, ok :) 18:22:05 moray: from the discussion we had yesterday night, I got the impression they had basically decided Ticomo was not an option 18:22:06 #info localteam to post details to the list for 1. budget 2. Crowne Plaza prices/rooms 3. hotel options 18:22:12 gwolf: right, that's what I thought before 18:22:23 but in this meeting they say they're still thinking 18:22:32 guys, are we still considering Ticomo? Is it worth spending much time? 18:22:47 moray: I think there is not much to think 18:22:52 moray: I think the local group has different opinions on that :-) 18:23:03 but for '3. hotel options' I more mean reminding us the options between CP and the nearby hotels -- prices, distances 18:23:07 not Ticomo 18:23:22 xamanu: leogg you think we can still have Ticomo as an option? 18:23:33 #info Ticomo not ruled out yet, but looking unlikely 18:23:50 my personal opinion is that Ticomo would be a very nice but unlikely option for dc12 18:24:14 there are too many problems to solve at Ticomo 18:24:15 yes 18:24:17 right 18:24:22 n0rman: I agree that Ticomo is the more difficult option. 18:24:37 xamanu: is like mission imposible :) 18:24:40 I think if you start some list threads you can bring the global team up to date more than by this meeting 18:24:46 I'm very worried about the price in CP, since I'm not as sure that we can get all down to 150K 18:24:51 especially for those who (unlike me) haven't been following the Spanish channel 18:24:53 yes, please use the lists 18:24:57 but it's the cheapest option so let's not rule Ticomo out just yet 18:25:02 it's much easier to follow through and keep things in mind that way 18:25:05 *please* 18:25:10 ok 18:25:13 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team -- Budget 18:25:17 We partly covered this already. 18:25:24 Any more to say? 18:25:27 noup 18:25:37 We have a preliminary budget at svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data/dc12/budget-estimate.ods 18:25:46 But this is not yet including all expenses we expect. So please be careful comparing the venues one to one. 18:25:54 even $200k *total* ought to be possible, but it's *much much* more than we raised last year, is the problem 18:26:17 ...and we are quite late to fundraising 18:26:20 last year we relied on the government money, which is unfortunate for starting now 18:26:20 moray, well last year was different,.. 18:26:23 yes, late 18:26:42 aroundthfur: sure. but ideally some people (not local team!) would have worked on keeping in touch with sponsors better 18:26:50 moray, yes... government money is very unlikely this year :( 18:26:58 moray, good point 18:27:03 we'll come back to sponsorship later 18:27:11 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team -- Website 18:27:21 The design is ready in HTML. 18:27:27 xamanu seemed to be working on this, just confused by the tt stuff 18:27:30 We are working in implementing the design into a working template. 18:27:35 which hopefully will become clear 18:27:37 right,moray :) 18:27:42 hello again 18:27:43 A lot of texts are missing and we're planning to do a sprint/workday to work on the wiki/texts needed for the website. 18:27:46 whoever is chairing, can you please "#save" here?! 18:27:47 moray, ^ please say #chair 18:27:49 moray, ^ please say #save i mean 18:27:50 #save 18:28:19 xamanu: right. it's also fine to just have a minimal site at first, and add more content later 18:28:30 it's better to have information 'not there' than for it to be wrong :) 18:28:49 any more you need from global team for the website? 18:29:05 I think that's all 18:29:10 great 18:29:12 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team -- Sponsorship levels 18:29:16 h01ger: ? 18:29:28 The debconf-sponsorship team is almost close to have sponsorship levels, levels are in svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data/dc12/sponsorship-brochure/levels 18:29:41 after IRC discussion with gwolf, and others, I posted two proposals on the list 18:29:56 h01ger replied to some of the thread but not all 18:30:14 yes, the easy stuff. for the rest i need more time which i'll only find on saturday 18:30:25 right 18:30:34 I don't think this is currently delaying sponsorship work 18:30:39 but i got one sponsor confirmed today 18:30:44 as you need to start some discussion with sponsors *before* you get as far as levels 18:30:55 not much / having it, will send a strong signal 18:31:05 h01ger: that's very good news! 18:31:30 h01ger: another sponsor? :) 18:31:34 but yes, we are set to get going fetching sponsors 18:31:42 we have our first sponsor confirmed in .ni 18:31:47 one we had at dc11 already 18:31:50 h01ger: right, but people could start phoning today anyway... 18:31:53 n0rman, jup, saw it. cheers! 18:32:06 h01ger: and get the final levels on Saturday when you and others have replied :p 18:32:15 moray, only so much. very soon you need the levels 18:32:16 again, giving wrong information is worse than not having it yet 18:32:23 we started to contact more companies in Nicaragua 18:32:24 nice! we're a step closer to the 200K! :) 18:32:33 Question: Are the permanent sponsors the same like in DC11? So I could include them into the website... 18:32:34 200k is completly unrealistic 18:32:59 100k would be awesome, but really, i dont even see that (little), without asking debian for funds... 18:33:10 "awesome", obviously 18:33:19 h01ger, yep, I know ;) 18:33:26 xamanu: include them unless they decide not to be permanent anymore ;-) 18:33:53 xamanu: their sponsorship basically consists in giving us facilities (i.e. bandwidth), so they are quite unlikely to throw us. 18:34:15 ok 18:34:27 h01ger: please reply to the list threads that the local team will create on budget issues and help to find solutions that will be realistic 18:34:38 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team -- Sponsorship brochure 18:34:50 I'm currently working on the dc10 brochure, adapting it for dc12. It will be ready this week. Once this is ready, we will have to make a "call for help" with the debian-publicity team. 18:35:14 leogg: see previous point, we can't announce the levels until that list thread has a conclusion 18:35:29 but that should only be 5 minutes' work to fix it 18:35:38 moray: and they are basically done 18:35:41 moray, yep... it's just an svg 18:35:42 the overall conversion/update will take more work, thanks 18:35:53 moray: I'd even suggest we discuss the details here on IRC after the meeting 18:36:03 to kill the blocker 18:36:12 if h01ger can wait a moment, yes 18:36:17 ? 18:36:21 #topic Update from DebConf12 local team -- Debian Day 18:36:30 he has time for a meeeting starting one hour after this one ;-) 18:36:49 local team thoughts on Debian Day? 18:37:00 We were discussing a bit on this topic yesterday 18:37:10 and I thought we should _really_ get h01ger's input on this 18:37:29 ...There is one 350+ people room in the venue, but we would only use it for DebianDay 18:37:34 with the 2 locations? 18:37:41 So, there are three options 18:37:42 there was also a suggestion of a separate location 18:37:47 1- go to another location 18:37:47 lilix ? 18:37:50 if you want my input, please summarize + ask 18:37:54 yes We have three different plans for Debian Day: 18:38:08 2- Rent the big room in the hotel (and have the videoteam wire up that room explicitly for that day) 18:38:13 given previous topics, "whatever is cheapest" might make sense 18:38:21 * h01ger nods moray 18:38:28 3- I suggested to stay in the 200+50+50 (or so?) rooms 18:38:51 Debian Day doesn't *need* to be streamed live, if that's relevant 18:38:52 BUT we would need to video-and-audio link the three smaller rooms 18:38:58 So h01ger needs to OK on this 18:39:21 lilix: (am I skipping any of your plans? :) ) 18:39:22 a single room elsewhere without streaming might be less work for the video team? 18:39:35 with no streaming (for dday), everyhing gets easier 18:40:13 I thin lilix is having Internet issues 18:40:14 optinially helpful could be start debconf in main room at (whatever), 10 AM, and start it in the 2nd room at 11 AM or noon only, so we can split forces better. 18:40:14 h01ger: no streaming on dday would make it possible to get a big aula in a university for free. 18:40:15 linking rooms sounds hard work / likely to be fragile when we'll only use it for one day 18:40:51 (and actually, on a 2nd thought, streaming might also be possible in such a setup) 18:40:54 the plan 1 can be at UCA university 18:41:15 what would things also easier, is if we only had one room to cover for debianday. not sure if thats the idea or if you want 2 (or 3) 18:41:22 so, if we can skip stream for dday, we can have it in a University :) 18:41:22 We could also take the separate rooms to our advantage, and have two tracks during DebianDay, as we had in DC8 (but that requires more work: more speakers) 18:41:38 I do think it could be at the university... As many locals will be interested 18:41:51 gwolf: makes it harder to plan, too, unless you forcibly assign people to talk rooms :) 18:42:02 I think the University sounds a good plan, assuming it's reachable 18:42:07 We could still film the talks (low level) and then upload them later 18:42:10 yes 18:42:19 I'd even venture we could have a stream, although quality-challenged... Or at least video recordings 18:42:32 as they are interesting for many people to follow 18:42:36 xamanu: precisely :) 18:42:38 I don't think being *live* is that vital for Debian day 18:42:45 not like for discussion events 18:43:06 ok, so we can have dday in a University 18:43:12 Now... It is of interest to many locals to go to the place where the 31337 DDs are 18:43:15 with no streaming, only video recording 18:43:22 moray, we'll have to arrange some kind of transportation to the university, but it can be done 18:43:23 so having it in the university reduces the appeal of a DebianDay 18:43:26 xamanu, as said, if there is a uplink we could use, we might be able to stream. still. 18:43:27 but it would be nice to have the talks later (especially because some of them are going to be in Spanish or especially funny) 18:43:28 it's not that far away 18:43:35 gwolf: we can tell them DDs are there. 18:43:45 gwolf: and even provide some. 18:43:51 moray: right. It's not the same,but it can work perfectly 18:43:53 maybe in cages 18:43:54 h01ger: I think an uplink should be possible. Right, lilix? 18:43:58 and it saves us from some hard logistics 18:44:07 also, 2 locations for dday+conf is hard for the videoteam, but given we have a good setup now (and provided we manage to ship it ;) - things could be possible whichwere unthinkable in the past 18:44:07 yes 18:44:14 xamanu, yeah. uni :) 18:44:15 h01ger: hush :p 18:44:30 note the conjunctives 18:44:31 h01ger: you should propose that later, once everything is working there, not yet ;) 18:44:34 h01ger: with a reduced quality equipment, I was able to stream from a semi-rural location in Nicaragua :) 18:44:38 I like the idea of the university. This is going to be a nice and great Dday! 18:44:39 xamunu: yes can be possible :) 18:44:53 why not move the whole conf to the uni? ;) 18:45:05 ok, so we agree on the university? :D 18:45:10 h01ger: I would actually like to see the reasoning against using the uni more, again... 18:45:23 h01ger: even if it needs transport provision, CP is very expensive... 18:45:30 h01ger: moray we have no hotels near the universities? 18:45:35 h01ger: accessibility and not enough hotels close by 18:45:36 h01ger: main point is getting there from the hotels... 18:45:43 oh, and accessibility, right 18:45:47 moray, it would be difficult to get rooms for two weeks in a row at the uni 18:45:48 #info We plan to put Debian Day in the university 18:45:51 free dorms? 18:46:00 h01ger: dorms? In Latin America? 18:46:03 ah, ok. (leogg) 18:46:15 h01ger, there are no dorms at the UCA university 18:46:18 ic 18:46:29 the accesibility at UCA is quite good 18:46:33 leogg: you checked about room availability? 18:46:40 Ah, UCA. I thought we meant UNAN 18:46:47 moray, they don't have dorms at UCA 18:46:50 leogg: but hotels are close by to UCA.... (we were considering UNAN always....( 18:46:52 only at UNAN 18:46:55 we don't, of course, need the same rooms for 2 weeks 18:47:00 leogg: I'm not talking about dorms 18:47:07 xamanu, yes, *very* expensive hotels 18:47:26 somehow... 18:47:29 while I'm always anti "magic buses", they might be cheaper than the central venue 18:47:30 leogg: like the CP? :-} 18:47:36 moray, we can check, but they have a lot of activities at the uni... so it's going to be difficult 18:47:47 leogg: even in July? 18:47:50 gwolf, yes, in that price range :) 18:48:00 we could use e.g. the cheaper hotels near CP and magic buses, and become much cheaper, theoreticlaly 18:48:01 gwolf, yes.. they have classes in July 18:48:01 leogg: worth checking then! :) 18:48:22 gwolf, lilix and I have a meeting tomorrow, so we'll check then 18:48:23 there are some other hotels "close" but anyway we would be quite seperated 18:48:24 leogg: we can trade them rooms for classes! So we can have a real DebSchool 18:48:35 magic busses all day are really annoying. but 50k debts likewise 18:48:38 xamanu: right, some of us are worrying about making this possible at all, though 18:48:41 gwolf, that's actually a nice idea :) 18:49:01 we need to consider less nice options, if they will make the event able to happen 18:49:21 Just... check on the possibility. If it is not feasible, don't invest too much energy in it 18:49:22 telling everyone "oh, we don't have any money left" would not be a good outcome 18:49:25 debian day at UCA is doable... we have a strong local FOSS community at the uni that will be useful 18:49:28 but we should try at least 18:50:15 we also have a good relationship of years with the UCA authorities, so it will be easier to plan something there 18:50:50 right. but please do try to find about any options for using them more, once they agree for Debian Day, even if it's not an option we *want* to go for 18:51:15 it doesn't seem impossible they have a couple of spare talk rooms for one week 18:51:25 and other spaces that could be used for hacking 18:51:28 moray, right! we'll talk to them and see what we can do 18:51:31 think how you would do debconf with only 50k USD avaliable. 18:51:38 leogg: maybe even you could say... "If it interests the university, I could even persuade the orga team to come here for the whole two weeks! It would be an amazing academic event for the university!" 18:51:59 gwolf, :) 18:52:02 what gwolf just said sounds like a evil plan which could work very well :) 18:52:05 leogg: (seriously!) 18:52:08 gwolf, :D 18:52:16 totally seriously. 18:52:17 gwolf, ok, we'll talk to them at the meeting tomorrow 18:52:38 #info MUAHAHA 18:53:48 #info Global team is bullying local team into looking at using a university for main DebConf events, too 18:53:59 #topic DC11 final report: Do we have it finally? 18:54:01 No. 18:54:02 But almost. 18:54:03 gwolf jumped into this and we finally have a almost ready final report: http://gwolf.org/files/dc11-report-very-alpha.pdf 18:54:15 It's almost-almost there 18:54:24 I'm right now working on getting the photo credits sorted 18:54:45 aroundthfur said he will check in later today the missing numeric bits about the budget 18:54:50 * h01ger looks for the agenda 18:54:51 i will get the budgeting texts merged later tonight 18:54:59 after that, I might push around some bits for layout, if needed 18:55:04 And... we are basically set 18:55:06 also, i contacted diva 18:55:21 they again said they will give me the receiptes 18:55:25 receipts* 18:55:34 I'm still missing the permission for *one* photo I'd like not to lose... but if needed, we can just scrap it ( :( ) 18:55:49 DC11 final report: Do we have it finally? 18:55:49 AOB/next meeting 18:55:49 is left 18:56:10 #topic # AOB/next meeting 18:56:22 two weeks from now? 18:56:22 typo day today, I guess I'm hungry 18:57:02 right, two weeks for now sounds good for me. 18:57:17 March 7, 19:00UTC? 18:57:28 we were on 18 UTC for these so far 18:57:43 why did we push this one to 19? 18:57:46 oh, we didn't :) 18:57:47 we didn't 18:57:52 it was just an impression I got from h01ger 18:57:55 just in holger's mind, due to the dc13 meeting 18:57:56 both 18/19 UTC are fine for me 18:58:05 let's stick with the same time unless there's reason to change 18:58:10 right 18:58:13 right 18:58:19 #info Next meeting 7 March, 18 UTC 18:58:22 AOB? 18:58:42 none from me 18:59:01 its a good idea to pingall everybody 3-4h before a meeting 18:59:20 well volunteered 18:59:30 ponies! 18:59:35 :) 19:00:14 done? 19:00:38 done! 19:00:40 #endmeeting