Hi,
unfortunatly I forgot to send this mail directly after FOSDEM, and now I
probably forgot something to tell you. Hopefully Anto or Cesar can jump in
and hopefully my summary is right in the first place.
A meeting between Anto and the other DebConf volunteers didnt take place at
FOSDEM, as we planned to have it on Sunday and then Anto got sick on Sunday
and had to stay in his hotel. So it was only me who talked to Anto on Friday
evening and Saturday.
The bad news (I like to start with the bad things) is that the working
localteam at the moment indeed is quite small, mostly Cesar and Anto. (And
both are quite busy atm.)
The good news is, that in July there will be 15 people from the Extremadura
administration working full time on DebConf. As I understood it, from July
1st and not July 15th.
(I'm fully confident they are aware what is coming to them. A big, worldwide
conference with ~400 (or more) guests. They might not know all the details
and will certainly assume some wrongly, so we need to make sure we
communicate our needs well.
But I dont see a general problem here, the Extremaduran adminstration yearly
also co-organizes the Free Software World Conference (which seems to have
been renamed to OpenSourceWC..) with >5000 attendees and they also sponsored
15 Debian development meetings in 2006-2008 and spend _lots_ of money on
that. (A 6 figure Euro amount each year, probably.)
So I'm certain they will not fuck it up, if we dont (let them) ;)
)
Another good news was, that a third dormitory was found and rented.
(Anto should probably add more detail here.)
So what does that mean? IMHO not soo much, unlike debconf7+8, there will be
more preparations done by non-localteam people, like CallForPapers, Website
content and other stuff. Which is basically like debconf5+6 were done. (But
unlike DebConf6 we will have a bunch of reliable local people during the
conf!)
And I think it would be good to try to recruit some people from other parts of
Spain (who intend to go to DebConf ;) to take away some load from Cesar and
Anto. (For example, the contact & the contracts with the venues will be in
spanish, so I think it would best if the person(s) doing the
bookkeeping/finances speak spanish (and do the bookkeeping in english of
course). Another thing is organising the meals, and there is more.
So I would still suggest to setup a localteam mailinglist and IRC channel,
also so that we are able to point localteam volunteers there.
#debconf9-localteam? probably better #debconf9-voluntarios (es_HL warning ;)
to reflect that its a spanish language channel, else we could also just use
#debconf-team..
And don't forget to attend the dc9 meeting on monday, 2009-02-23 at 20 UTC,
agenda: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/Meetings
regards,
Holger
P.S.: As I never came around to blog this: there is a _very_ nice train
connection from Madrid to Caceres, definitly faster and more comfortable and
scenic than the bus ride some people will remember from those developer
meetings. IIRC it was something like a bit below 30 Euros one way and 2 or
3h.
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