[Debconf-team] Minutes from today's meeting - DebConf10 pre-meeting
Hi!
Today we had the preparation meeting for the DebConf10 selection
process. This are the minutes from the meeting.
The first thing that was discussed was the acceptance of the late
Quito bid, it was agreed that if the bid reached the same quality than
the other bids, it should be accepted. But no other bids from today
on. This should not be taken as a precedent to accept late bids in
the future.
Then, each team made a short introduction of themselves, with a short
Q&A session. Venezuela was not present and thus the introduction and
Q&A was missing for them. Here are the summaries for each location.
Quito:
* URL: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Quito
* Quito is capital of Ecuador -- 2.5 million people live there.
Quito's main advantage ATM is the country being cheap and USD being
local currency. Also, Ecuador doesn't require visas for most
countries, more info in the wiki.
* Already looked at the venue, which is Centro de Convenciones
Eugenio Espejo, major conventions center for the city. Planning to
host 100 people on DebCamp and 400 people on DebConf
* Also made a very preliminary budget draft. Taking into account what
DC6 and DC7 had to said in their final reports. Even with inflation,
and oversizing costs, around 150,000 USD for the whole event.
* Budget URL: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Quito/BudgetDraft
* Regarding connectivity, the Eugenio Espejo Convention Center
provides broadband (DSL), but quotations from several providers were
requested. Some of them had availability, some not, but there's a good
offer of 700 USD/month plus installations for 2 Mbps Fiber, the idea
is to order 4 or 5 of that. And there's local company willing to
commit to pay 3000 USD for that.
* Regarding distances: for the 20 USD/person/night lodging area
(which is La Mariscal) is about 10 mins. by bus. Currently looking to
reduce costs on lodging, nearby the convention center, which would
then be on walking distance.
New York:
* URL: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/NewYork
* NYC has a few general advantages not specific to our venue: travel
costs are quite cheap and flights are quite direct from most of the
world, which will allow more people to afford their flights or get
sponsored; there's very useful 24/7 public transportation and food
stores, etc; lots of diets can be satisfied in terms of food,
certainly vegetarian and vegan; there are a huge number of daytrip
options - beaches, parks, urban architecture, museums, etc; lots of
cheap stores to get electronics; everyone speaks English, and in many
areas (including the one our venue is in), many people also speak
Spanish; and the city is very friendly to foreigners and people of all
appearances.
* One -possible- main venue in manhattan is Hostelling International
(for everything including lodging and talk rooms), assuming that
venue, the location checklist has been filled in at:
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/NewYork/HI
* This venue was chosen mainly for the enviroment it would provide.
It is completley self-contained -- can have all of our facilities
under one roof, with management who knows our needs and can work with
us, they have 600 beds total, two large rooms and two small rooms,
and much common space for our use. They are open to our bringing in
networknig gear and outside internet connections
* Regarding conectivity: they have a significant amount of
connectivity already and we can add more
* But there are still mutiple options regarding venue rooms, lodging, etc.
* Regarding visas, the plan is to work with DebConf's many US-based
corporate sponsors to get their lawyers to help with the bureaucracy,
send letters of invitation and the likes.
Boston:
* URL: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Boston
* Travel costs/arrangements are very similar to NYC
* Regarding connectivity: there is a huge advantage, since it's
effectively unlimited
* Costs for venue & housing are practically worked out, but there
hasn't been much work on food costs. Any outside caterer can be
brought in, as long as they're insured, or people could be on their
own with the plethora of outside food options
* The location is in the middle of a lot of academia and MIT
* The currently proposed venue is less than a 5 minute walk to the
proposed accomodation (both of which are WiFi-eqipped)
After that, we agreed that there should be only 1 more meeting,
following the agenda already used for DC8 and DC7 decission processes,
currently at: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Meetings
Since this is going to be a loooong meeting, we ask people to allocate
2 or 3 hours for it. Also, to be well prepared (i.e. for the teams:
have the answers to the agenda points already pre-written, for the
other people, to have read all the information on the URLs provided).
Chairing will be done by both Ganneff and me.
The date should be by mid/end February. The doodle page for choose the
date is: http://doodle.com/bk7w5fecg29cthha
People Present:
1. moray
2. Ganneff
3. Hydroxide_NYC
4. Clint
5. bureado_UIO
6. also
7. MrBeige_NYC
8. Roliverio_UIO
9. bgupta
10. apostols_Margarita
11. ailefi
12. santiago-ve
13. h01ger
14. ari_boston
15. xxv_boston
16. zer0mdq
17. rvntone
18. marga
19. Sledge
20. Maulkin
21. mako
Notes from the bot:
http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debconf-team.20090125_2100.html
Log from the bot:
http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debconf-team.log.20090125_2100.html
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Besos,
Marga
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