Re: [Debconf-team] DebianDay, Debians 20th birthday, party! (Re: potential wider audience on weekends, Debian Day)

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>]

I notice this from the meeting logs:

#agreed debian day will be held friday 16 august, with a party in the
evening possibly preceded by some talks

but ... with the label "debian day" ...

does that mean there is now a wider invitation for people (e.g. not just
DDs) to attend on 16 August during the day and/or the party?

Or this is just an event for DDs?



On 16/07/13 19:25, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just noted the topic "DebianDay - cancel?" for todays meeting, and while 
> anybody could have written this (so maybe thats just a suggestion from a 
> "slighty negative minded person" ;) it prompted me to finally write this mail.
> 
> On Friday, August 16th 2013 Debian will turn 20 years and many Debian 
> contributors will gather together anyway for this dc13 thing, so I think we 
> should definitly met and celebrate this!
> 
> And as we have video set up anyway, we should also stream this out in the 
> world and ask other Debian parties elsewhere to do the same, thus creating a 
> global Debian Day event, with local talks and local parties. (I dont suggest 
> streaming beer drinking, but rather talks during the day...)
> 
> And, I believe we should ask for help to organize the party. The DebConf team 
> during (and before!) DebConf is usually too busy to also organize meanigful 
> parties, so I'd suggest to ask for help on debconf-discuss@ and debian-
> project@.
> 
> I'm aware of the schedules for both the 16th and the 17th (thanks to 
> http://people.debian.org/~tiago/dc13/) and think either day would be fine to 
> be called "DebianDay" with some tweaking.
> 
> This mail has been written in way too much hurry, as to send it at least a few 
> minutes before the meeting. Currently I believe it's best to label the 17th as 
> "DebianDay", shuffle _a few_ events around and invite the general Debian 
> interested public. And have the former formal dinner on the 16th, turning into 
> a party.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> We still have 30 days to organize celebrating our projects 20th birthday, so 
> let's do it! 
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 	Holger
> 
> 
> p.s.: AIUI we have a 5k CHF budget for it too and...
> 
> On Freitag, 12. Juli 2013, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> There have been a couple of mails about and I've also heard discussions
>> from people outside Debian who think it would be cool to drop by and see
>> a bit of DebConf
> 
> I can confirm this, I also know about such people...
>  
>> The convenient, central location, 20 birthday and the significant
>> interest in FOSS around western Europe may well contribute to the
>> "perfect storm" of unwanted attention or free publicity depending upon
>> how you look at it.
>>
>> What is the general feeling about it?
>>
>> Are there any severe limitations, e.g. does the contract prohibit us
>> having an extra 100 people on site during the day time?
> 
> I'd hope not.
> 
>> I realize accommodation and catering can't cope with sudden surges, but
>> can the bar operate in a scalable manner (presumably raising some extra
>> money for the budget too)?
>>
>> Could we possibly look at inviting a food van to come and operate nearby
>> at no cost/effort to DebConf itself?
>>
>> Maybe we could steer people towards a particular day for this -
>> Saturday, 17 August, as it is the last day, it won't impact productivity
>> throughout the week so it might be suitable.
> 
> yup, sounds all good and doable to me. (Like always, on a best effort basis.)
> 
>> I'm not sure if there is a final decision about a Debian Day - I don't
>> know if this would qualify as one or not and it doesn't really have to
>> be.  However, that might be a convenient way to signal to people that it
>> is the better time for them to attend if just coming for one day.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> thanks for this reminder... 
> 
> 
> 
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