Re: [Debconf-team] For Blog: Short insiders summary of DebConf11 Organization
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On 03/15/2011 12:18 PM, Vedran Omeragic wrote:
> Hi,
> last night I wrote a small article on my blog about progress of
> organization of dc11. It was suggested to me, that this article should
> also be published on blog.dc.o, so if you agree with that, the article
> can be found at http://bit.ly/gmYYQ9 .
>
> Kind regards,
> Vedran
Forgot to add:
You're free to do whatever you want with the article, but I'd appreciate
if you leave it as it is, it was meant to be sort of a teaser...
Also, please update the links on the blog to point to DC11 instead of DC10.
Thank you,
Vedran
PS. Here's the HTML version of the article:
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently there has been some major
developments in DebConf11 organization. In short, I will list some of
the most important.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:
#003366;">Website</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Official DC11 website has finally been
completed and now contains a great deal of information for those
interested in attending this years conference. Some of the most notable
changes include:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:
#003366;">Navigation</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Frontpage now contains a small menu with
links to most important parts of website, like About, Registration,
Contact... Sidebar menu is now divided in 3 categories:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>The Conference </strong></span>
Links to pages which are directly connected with the Conference like
About DC, Debian Day, Registration, Call for Papers, Talk Schedules,
Payments... Most of these links are hidden at the moment, and will be
until the registration is open, to avoid any unnecessary confusion.</li>
<li><strong><span style="color: #003366;">More Information</span></strong>
Basic information for attendees like Important Dates, Accommodations,
Venue, Visa... Everything you need to know about your stay in Banja
Luka.</li>
<li><strong><span style="color: #003366;">Practical</span></strong>
While these pages have almost nothing to do with the Conference itself,
they do provide a vast information about city, getting to Bosnia, some
practical information, as well as the Map of the whole city...</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #003366;">New Pages
added</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>How Can I Help</strong></span>
This page contains some basic information for anyone who wants to help
out. Weather by volunteering, sponsoring, or just by adding a banner on
their website...
<strong><a title="How Can I Help?"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/helpus.xhtml"; target="_blank">DC11:
How Can I Help?</a></strong></li>
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Contact</strong></span>
Instead of just sending visitors to <em>mailto</em>, we replaced it by a
page which contains <strong>ALL</strong> contact information, emails AND
phone numbers (which will be added just before DebCamp starts).
<a title="DC11 Contact"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/contact.xhtml";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Contact</strong></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Sponsorship</strong></span>
Just like with the contact page, we made a page to be more user friendly
to any interested parties or individuals, and contains most important
info, such as sponsorship levels and contact address.
<a title="DC11 Sponsorship"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Sponsorship</strong></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>About DebConf11</strong></span>
Actually it's just a page with a content copied from frontpage (which is
now used for something else)
<a title="DC11: About DebConf11"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/about.xhtml";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: About DebConf11</strong></a></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #003366;">New
features:</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Documentation</strong></span>
Is now used to store all important documents and records for public use
and sharing, like brochures, official government documents, important
public mails, as well as the recordings of all IRC meeting logs. Can be
found at:
<strong><a title="DC11 Documentation"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/documentation.xhtml";
target="_blank">DC11: Documentation</a></strong></li>
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Frontpage:
Navigation</strong></span>
To ensure the main goal of website, information availability, frontpage
has been redesigned to provide maximum accessibility as well as easy
access to any part of the website.
<a title="DC11: Frontpage" href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Frontpage</strong></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Frontpage: Latest
News</strong></span>
To keep the public and attendees well informed of any important events
and developments, we decided to add 'latest news' section. Note however,
that if you want to stay completely informed of any changes and updates,
we still recommend subscribing to our mailing list, which can be found
under contact page.
<a title="DC11: Frontpage" href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Frontpage</strong></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Map of Banja Luka</strong></span>
Because of lack of data on Google Maps and Open Street Map, as well as
some other minor local maps, we made a small map of almost whole city
and added around 60 or 70 locations which we consider to be of
importance for our attendees. Such locations include hotels, parking
spots, restaurants, bars, clubs, petrol stations, taxi stations, etc.
This page uses simple JavaScript and is not 'dragable'. Therefore we
added Index Location to auto-locate the needed locations, as well as the
legend to clarify the category of locations. Pointing your mouse over a
certain location will open a small bubble with some info on that
location/object. We should also point out that some of this data may not
be 100% correct (ie working hours may be off...). Map is available at:
<strong><a title="Banja Luka City Map"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/map/index.xhtml";
target="_blank">DC11: Banja Luka City Map</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="color: #003366;">Bosnian language</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Site is now available on Bosnian
language for native speaking attendees, should they have problems with
English version. Every page is available on both languages, which can
be changed by clicking on ba/en flag in upper left corner, or <a
title="DC11: Bosnian Version"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/index.xhtml.ba";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Bosnian Version</strong></a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:
#003366;">Design</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As you may have noticed, the official
page received a small face lift. New header with the Government
building, a small token of appreciation for all the help the Government
is providing; as well as some minor changes in CSS and color scheme.
While talking about design, we'd like to thank Leandro Gómez for his
help with the header.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:
#003366;">Sponsorship</span></h2>
<h3><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Sponsorship
Levels</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As agreed on the meeting, which took
place on 22. of February, [<a title="Meeting logs: 22. Feb 2011."
href="http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-02-22-19.59.html";
target="_blank"><strong>Meeting logs</strong></a>], following
sponsorship levels will be used for this years conference:</p>
<ul>
<li>Steel < 1.000 €</li>
<li>Bronze > 1.000 €</li>
<li>Silver > 5.000 €</li>
<li>Gold > 10.000 €</li>
<li>Platinum > 20.000 €</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Main reason for lowering amounts is due
to last years results of high increase in the same. As for the benefits
of these levels, the only thing changed is t-shirts / bags places; we
believe t-shirts are much more noticeable than bags, and have therefore
been promoted to Silver, while bags have been downgraded to Bronze. For
a full list of requirements and benefits, please visit:
<a title="DC11: Sponsorship"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Sponsorship</strong></a></p>
<h3><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Sponsorship
Brochure</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sponsorship brochures have finally been
completed and are available for a public distribution. The brochures are
available in 3 qualities: low, high and original. Low and high quality
brochures, ~6Mb and ~8Mb respectively, are for normal distribution to
our sponsors, while original quality, at around 240Mb, is intended for
maximum quality printing. Just as with the website, each quality is
available in both Bosnian and English. Current version of the brochure
is 1.1 and is most likely the final one. These brochures are available
at Documentation page:
<a title="Documents by Local Team"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/documentation.xhtml#localdoc";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Documentation >> Documents made by
Local Team</strong></a></p>
Or download them directly:
<ul>
<li><strong><a
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship/dc11_brochure_en_lq.pdf";>Sponsorship
Brochure LQ</a> [en]</strong></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship/dc11_brochure_en_hq.pdf";>Sponsorship
Brochure HQ</a> [en]</strong></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship/dc11_brochure_en_oq.pdf";>Sponsorship
Brochure OQ</a> [en]</strong></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship/dc11_brochure_ba_lq.pdf";>Sponsorship
Brochure LQ</a> [ba]</strong></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship/dc11_brochure_ba_hq.pdf";>Sponsorship
Brochure HQ</a> [ba]</strong></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship/dc11_brochure_ba_oq.pdf";>Sponsorship
Brochure OQ</a> [ba]</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Also, I'd like to thank Mirosal Remetic
for making a great template and Pablo Duboue for some very valuable
suggestions regarding the structure of the brochure.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #003366;">Visas and
Customs Rules</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Many questions have been raised
regarding Bosnian visa regime. We got in contact with the embassy and
they clarified who can enter our country with(out) Visa. The list can be
found on <a title="DC11 Wiki: Visa regime"
href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Travel-Visa";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11 Wiki: Visa regime</strong></a>. It also
states, which countries have a privilidge of 'ID-only' entrance. If
your country is not listed, that means you will need visa. If you want
to know what exactly you need to get one, please visit the <a
title="Visa inquary "
href="http://www.mfa.gov.ba/HTML/Ambasade/Preporuke_eng/Vize_eng.html";
target="_blank"><strong>this official Government page</strong></a> and
chose your country from a drop-down menu. As for the visa itself, as
well as the list of Customs Rules, please read <a title="DC11: Visa"
href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/visas.xhtml";
target="_blank"><strong>DC11: Visa</strong></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Also, thanks to Darjan Prtic for getting
the list from the Government officials.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #003366;">So, what's
next?</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you think, that is it for now, you
are dead wrong. At this very moment following is being organized and
developed:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color:
#003366;">Registration</span></strong>
Registration Team is currently hacking penta and modifying it for this
years needs and conditions. We expect to have registrations open by the
end of March / beginning of April.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:
#003366;"><strong>Travel and getting to Banja Luka</strong></span>
Being one of the greatest obstacle, Travel Team is working hard on
finding best routes for attendees and mapping the city...</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:
#003366;"><strong>Sponsorship</strong></span>
With final decision and agreement for sponsorship levels and brochures
ready for public distribution, Sponsorship Team is now actively looking
for new sponsors, global and local, preparing various promotional
material, as well as planning our advertising strategy.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #003366;">Final
word</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, these are pretty much the
<em>highlights</em> of some recent and some future developments of
DebConf11 organizational team. Mind you, there's a lot more going on,
but I tried to give a small summary from the <em>inside</em>. Should you
be interested in attending, helping out, sponsoring or just have some
questions, feel free to ask them on our mailing list at: <strong><a
href="mailto:debconf11-localteam@lists.debconf.org";
target="_blank">debconf11-localteam@lists.debconf.org</a></strong>. I
should inform you that this is a public mailing list and its archives
are available for a broader public. If you do not wish for your mail to
be made public, please direct any enquiry directly to me trough the <a
title="Contact Me"
href="http://vedranomeragic.com/?page_id=4";><strong>Contact
Form</strong></a> or any other member of Core Local Team (<a
href="http://foolcontrol.org/?page_id=146";
target="_blank"><strong>FoolControl.org</strong></a>)</p>
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