Re: [Debconf-team] [RFR] Please check the DebConf12 final report
Moray Allan wrote:
> You can view the source files on the web at
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/reports/dc12/ or "svn
> checkout svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data" and make changes
> directly.
I don't have write access for svn, but here's a diff.
--
JBR - and today's single word in West Greenlandic is:
Ilinniaqqikkiarturtinniqartussaq
"One who should be sent to further his studies"
Index: network.tex
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--- network.tex (revision 4025)
+++ network.tex (working copy)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
additional Buffalo access points on the far side of the room.
Using a handful of 10/100 copper ethernet switches, we ran cabling
-from the to most of the tables, so that wired connectivity was
+to most of the tables, so that wired connectivity was
available to those who wanted it. This reduced some of the potential
wireless congestion.
Index: freetime.tex
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--- freetime.tex (revision 4025)
+++ freetime.tex (working copy)
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
they are visiting, exchange of other ways of arts, besides Computer Science and
excellent programming.
-On the inauguration during Debian Day the folkloric dance group of cultural
+On the inauguration during Debian Day the folkloric dance group of the cultural
department of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) participated generously by
showing performances of traditional dances and actions of cultural intervention.
-On Thursday 5th of July a International Poetry Night was organized in the
+On Thursday 5th of July an International Poetry Night was organized in the
cultural bar and restaurant El Panal. Besides all of the participants of
DebConf12 local individual artists and the literate collective LITUS from the
university had been invited to share publicly poems and literate arts in all
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@
Che (Nicaragua), Franjaz (Nicaragua), Flavia Rodríguez (Nicaragua), Marco D'tria
(Italy) and from the DebConf participants Rhonda (Austria), Tiago (Brazil),
Edgar (Mexico) and others.
-To underline the magic of this moment it is worth mention that the literate
+To underline the magic of this moment it is worth mentioning that the literate
collective LITUS decided to change their name during the event to the BUJIA.
To round up the public Debian Day a concert took place after the main activities
close to the venue in the installations of the National Dance School on Saturday
7th of July. A great selection of upcoming local underground bands played to the
-amusement of the particpants of DebConf, visitors of Debian Day and party
+amusement of the participants of DebConf, visitors of Debian Day and party
people. The following bands played during the concert called "Mueve tu Mouse con
Libertad": Q69K (Nicaraguan punk), Rebel-A-Zion (Caribbean reggae), Ocarina
Banda Show (Nicaraguan and Latin ensemble), Unidad de cuidados intensivos
Index: cheeseandwine.tex
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--- cheeseandwine.tex (revision 4025)
+++ cheeseandwine.tex (working copy)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
socializing in the warm evening while tasting smelly (and less smelly)
cheeses and beverages.
-This successful party has been orchestred by a team of more than twenty
+This successful party has been orchestrated by a team of more than twenty
dedicated ``Cheese Assistants'' under the gentle but tight direction of
Christian 'bubulle' Perrier, our beloved ``Cheese Master'': handling the
logistics of gathering, cooling, transporting, labelling and disposing
Index: video.tex
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--- video.tex (revision 4025)
+++ video.tex (working copy)
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
see events live and not only to read later what the presenter answered.
We are really thankful to our sponsors HP (hp.com) and IRILL (irril.com) for
-providing great support and make our work easier and more professional. Having
+providing great support and making our work easier and more professional. Having
dedicated equipment for the DebConf video team has reduced the setup time and
-contributed to increase the quality of the recordings.
+contributed to increasing the quality of the recordings.
In total, we recorded and streamed 77 sessions over seven days. These recordings
are available in two different qualities, resulting in 33 GB of files for the
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
One notable thing this year was that 24 hours after the closing ceremony we had
all the recordings uploaded and available to download.
-This has provably been very useful for many Debian enthousiasts around the world
+This has provably been very useful for many Debian enthusiasts around the world
who have been downloading these videos after the conference:
\href{http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120906.123046.3c8e6f1a.en.html}{Mattias
Wadenstein explained to the debconf-video mailing list} that for the July \&
Index: registration.tex
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--- registration.tex (revision 4025)
+++ registration.tex (working copy)
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
registration category (US\$600 in 2011), which covers
only the direct costs to the conference from the attendee.
-As DebConf approaches, few weeks before the event, the
+As DebConf approaches, a few weeks before the event, the
reconfirmation phase begins. Attendees are required to log in once
again to Pentabarf, and indicate that they really do intend to come to
DebConf. The initial registration process gives the organising team an
Index: budget.tex
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--- budget.tex (revision 4025)
+++ budget.tex (working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
% \section{Budgeting}
% \person{Norman Garc\'ia}
%
-% Budgeting for DebConf is a hard work, with lot of people involved working in DebConf.
+% Budgeting for DebConf is hard work, with a lot of people involved working in DebConf.
Index: numbers.tex
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--- numbers.tex (revision 4025)
+++ numbers.tex (working copy)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
with strong, committed Free Software user and development communities,
but with an income level strongly lower than the developed
countries. Having a DebConf in Central America meant that, among the
-countries that conform the region\footnote{Panama, Costa Rica,
+countries that form the region\footnote{Panama, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize}, we had 53
attendees. 40 further participants were from the rest of the American
continent; 58 people came from Europe, 7 from Asia, 1 from Africa and
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
close the reconfirmation period around two weeks before DebCamp
starts, and our expenses (mainly the hotel bookings) are made
according to those numbers. While DebConf8 and DebConf9 were almost in
-our acceptable 10\% mis-estimation margin (with respectively an 88.4\%
+our acceptable 10\% mis-estimation margin (with respectively 88.4\%
and 89.2\% rates), DebConf10 had just 73.5\% and DebConf11
74.2\%. DebConf12 registered a 94.1\%.
Index: impressions.tex
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--- impressions.tex (revision 4025)
+++ impressions.tex (working copy)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
green. The city is gorgeous: full of trees and plants (well, at least compared
to my metropolitan European standards), and the campus of Universidad
Centroamericana where the conference is hosted is even more so. Also, it's a
-great pleasure to have DebConf in an university campus where students are still
+great pleasure to have DebConf in a university campus where students are still
swarming.
}
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
\blogpost{
http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/07/\#e2012-07-06T22_59_21.txt}{
Gregor Herrmann}{
-I'm here in managua since Sunday evening, \& by now DebCamp is slowly getting to
+I'm here in Managua since Sunday evening, \& by now DebCamp is slowly getting to
its end. So here are some of my impressions so far:
\begin{itemize}
\item as each year, it's great to have time to work on Debian stuff for longer
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@
seventeen hours travel each way. I took a lot of pictures which gave me a good
record of my trip.
-The talks, BOF and discussions were, as usual, very useful. The release team
+The talks, BOFs and discussions were, as usual, very useful. The release team
explaining what needed to be done for Wheezy was both informative and amusing.
-The numerous BOF from Steve Mcintyre were a great source of discussion and ideas
+The numerous BOFs from Steve Mcintyre were a great source of discussion and ideas
and appear to have generated progress on some quite contentious issues.
I especially enjoyed the Sylvestre Ledru talk on building the archive with clang
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
Hideki Yamane gave a really useful talk ``Let's shrink Debian package archive!''
He gave a practical explanation on how Debian could benefit from using xz
compression, where it is not appropriate and had a selection of real numbers to
-help the discussion. Given this was Hideki first talk at a Debconf I must
+help the discussion. Given this was Hideki's first talk at a Debconf I must
congratulate him on doing an excellent job.
There were many other talks which I have not singled out here but that says
@@ -114,20 +114,20 @@
honest, that part was not achieved during Debcamp but during.....the flight from
Paris to Atlanta and partly during the Atlanta-Managua flight. Being upgraded to
Premium helped as there are power sockets in seats there..:-)
-\item completing APT translation and APT manpages translations. Here, a big
+\item completing APT translation and APT manpages translations. Here, much
work had been done by Justin Rye to bring more English in a big pile of Germish
-and I had to fight hard to check significative changes out of the typo and
+and I had to fight hard to check significant changes out of the typo and
grammar fixes
\item preparing a backport of samba for squeeze. We'll have samba 3.6.6 in
wheezy and our squeeze users deserve it also
\item go through a few leftovers from the Paris i18n sprint that created
i18n.debian.org, such as creating a page for the I18n team.
-\item discuss (briefly) with David Prévot have the Debian website l10n pages
+\item discuss (briefly) with David Prévot having the Debian website l10n pages
point to material from i18n.debian.org and no longer i18n.debian.net
\end{itemize}
The only thing I nearly haven't worked on yet is... the talk I have on Sunday
-and that is supposed to explain newcomers how to join the crowd of localization
+and that is supposed to explain to newcomers how to join the crowd of localization
fanatics.
Oh, and I'm still jetlagged and go to bed daily at 10pm... :-)
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
\item The Debian Cheese and Wine party was off the wall, the food and the
drinks were awesome and it was a lot of fun
\item I’ve been attending some of the Debconf organising sessions, I was
-considering getting a few people together so that we could put in a bit for
+considering getting a few people together so that we could put in a bid for
Sherbrooke for 2016, but then I learned that a bunch of people are already
getting together to put a bid together for Montréal in 2014, so I’ll get
involved with that instead. Stefano and I have also been talking about a
Index: daytrip.tex
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--- daytrip.tex (revision 4025)
+++ daytrip.tex (working copy)
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
the city. Larger volcanos were visible on the horizon throughout the
morning. The buses went through the centre of the city of Leon, and
finally, just before lunch, arrived at the Pacific coast, at the “Las
-Peñitas“ beach venue operated by Loro Trips.
+Peñitas” beach venue operated by Loro Trips.
Dancers dressed as giants, wearing traditional costumes, greeted the
group on arrival.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
For the afternoon, the participants then split into 3 groups. One
group stayed at Las Peñitas to enjoy a relaxing afternoon at the
beach. A second group toured a local marine sanctuary. Participants
-travelled either by kayak or motorboat up river into the swamp. Those
+traveled either by kayak or motorboat up river into the swamp. Those
of us on the motorboat had a guide careful to point out the wildlife
along the way, particularly birds.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
The guide told us the story of Nicaragua in a factual manner, supported
by photographs, documents and real items of military hardware
that the US had supplied to the dictator Somoza. He took us through
-all the phases of the revolution, covering the role of US marines into
+all the phases of the revolution, covering the role of US marines in
the country, the assassination of Sandino, the dark years under Somoza's
rule and the decade of reform under Sandinista control.
Index: talks.tex
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--- talks.tex (revision 4025)
+++ talks.tex (working copy)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
During DebConf, We had a total of 98 scheduled activities — This is,
including seven \textit{social activities} (and some preparatory
-meetings), which, although are not part of the stated, formal goal of
+meetings), which, although not part of the stated, formal goal of
our conference, are a very important part of its identity and what has
given such a high cohesion to its attendee base. I will not get into
details on the social activities, as they will be covered in other
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
Each year, the list of \textit{tracks} along which DebConf is
organized varies greatly, as the tracks' topics reflect on one hand
-the pre-perceived current issues of Debian development (and of the
+the perceived current issues of Debian development (and of the
contributors in the geographic region), and on the other, a logical
grouping of the already submitted talk proposals.
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@
available virtualization infrastructures, managing \textit{virtual
server farms}, integrating large upstream changes into the kernel
were grouped under this topic.
-\item[Skills exchange] Talks are usually grouped under this label (not
+\item[Skills exchange] Talks are usually grouped under this label, not
formally a track, as they are not presented together in time nor in
space as they are rather an answer to perceived needs that arise in
the process of DebConf. This year we had only four proposals under
- this track, ranging from beginners' spanish lessons to IPv6 in
+ this track, ranging from beginners' Spanish lessons to IPv6 in
Debian.
\end{description}
Index: venue.tex
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--- venue.tex (revision 4025)
+++ venue.tex (working copy)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
The UCA was not only the venue, but also platinum sponsor for DebConf12.
Hand in hand with the authorities, professors and students DebConf had
-been made possible. The participation of the university stuff and
+been made possible. The participation of the university staff and
student volunteers tendered the spirit of the tropical DebConf and the
lovely environment of the Nicaraguan culture. For a DebConf, which
claims to be a more integrative conference of people working together
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
environment. The feedback from the university was incredible and
everybody was very happy with the result of the conference in their
facilities. A lot of students got infected by the collaborative spirit
-and the local linux user group grew in ideas and people. The professors
+and the local Linux User Group grew in ideas and people. The professors
and the higher authorities of the university were very interested and
received via talks, discussions and explanations huge motivation to
implement more Free Software in their institutional work, such as in
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