Re: DebConf13 final report
Raphaël Walther wrote:
> Please feel free to join on IRC in #debconf-team channel.
> You can checkout the repository with the following comment (read only):
>
> svn co svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/debconf-data/reports/dc13/
>
> Feel free to contact me would you need writing rights in the repository or any
> other question.
Okay, I've checked out a copy and gone through it. But it's so long
since I've used IRC that I completely forget how I'd go about joining
that channel. I'll attach diffs here before I try again.
General remarks:
I'm not trying to standardise towards either en_US or _GB except
within a file.
In bar.tex:
s/surface/floorspace/ - I think this is the idea. In English a
building with a large "surface" is one that needs a lot of paint.
In daytrip.tex:
How will TeX format "\unit[2,5]{hours}"? Does it need s/,/./?
In food.tex:
I've replaced a "sexist he" with a "singular they".
I've rejigged a sentence to work around the lack of a common English
word to complete the set "vision : visually :: taste : ????"
In impressions.tex:
I'm ignoring non-native word choices, but fixing typos, and counting
"filling a bug" and "an great" as the latter.
In registration.tex:
Uses "organis{ation,ing}" but "center"; make that "centre"
In talks.tex:
s/this criteria/this criterion/ is probably too pedantic.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
Index: bar.tex
===================================================================
--- bar.tex (revision 4488)
+++ bar.tex (working copy)
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
Le Camp is located far from structures selling beverages and food such as restaurants, bars and supermarkets.
We therefore decided to provide a location in Le Camp where drinks and and food could be bought for a reasonable price
during the whole conference for more than 12 hours per day.
-The bar was located in the building called "Rotonde". The large surface of the building, the wonderful view on the lake and
-its central location contributed in making "the bar" the place where attendees could not only have a
+The bar was located in the building called "Rotonde". The large floorspace of the building, the wonderful view on the lake and
+its central location contributed to making "the bar" not only the place where attendees could have a
drink together, but also a place for coding and sharing ideas.
The bar served sodas, local wines and three types of beer. The high demand for the dark beer
surprised even our brewer and we ran out of it twice!
-We also served snacks such as icecream, hand-made sandwiches and cakes, as well as raclette, a melted cheese swiss specialty.
+We also served snacks such as icecream, hand-made sandwiches and cakes, as well as raclette, a Swiss melted cheese specialty.
Thanks to all the bar volunteers for serving almost 2000 liters of drinks while others were having fun drinking it.
\begin{center}
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
-For the Debian birthday party, the bar team prepared a huge cake. Scaling up the
+For the Debian birthday party, the bar team prepared a huge cake. Scaling up
the recipe for more than 300 people was the easiest part but the preparation of a \unit[1.5]{m$^2$} birthday cake was definitely a challenge.
A wooden frame was assembled as a support. \unit[4.5]{m$^2$} of puff pastry were baked along with \unit[33]{l} of vanilla cream.
-Finally \unit[8]{kg} of sugar where used for the icing which was decorated with an awesome Debian swirl.
+Finally \unit[8]{kg} of sugar were used for the icing which was decorated with an awesome Debian swirl.
With the help of 6 attendees we successfully finished the cake on time and the present and former DPL cut the cake.
Index: budget.tex
===================================================================
--- budget.tex (revision 4488)
+++ budget.tex (working copy)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
in other years relating to the conference venue, food, and accomodation. It
is only thanks to the tremendous efforts of the sponsorship team, and the
amazing support of our sponsors, that Debian was able to raise enough
-ressouces that enabled us to hold the conference this year.
+resources that enabled us to hold the conference this year.
\subsection{Sponsorship}
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
\subsection{Final numbers}
-The total expenses for the conference amounted to 181'000 CHF,
+The total expenses for the conference amounted to 181,000 CHF,
grouped into the following major expense categories:
\begin{center}
Index: daytrip.tex
===================================================================
--- daytrip.tex (revision 4488)
+++ daytrip.tex (working copy)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
\person{Michael Banck}
The conference day trip is a long-standing tradition of DebConf. As the
-overwhelming majority of attendees are usually not from the country DebConf is
+overwhelming majority of attendees are usually not from the country where DebConf is
taking place, getting to know the surroundings of the DebConf location is
welcomed by most. Furthermore, the day trip allows for longer discussions and
socializing than is otherwise possible during the hectic DebConf schedule. For
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
All of the above variants converged at Soliat for lunch and leisure around the
amphitheatre-shaped \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creux_du_Van}{Creux du
Van} natural attraction. In the afternoon, day trip attendees took their buses
-to the city of Neuchâtel for a city visit or to attend the Busker's music
+to the city of Neuchâtel for a city visit or to attend the buskers music
festival. In the evening, a boat was boarded for the conference dinner, taking
everybody back to Vaumarcus after a long tour around Lake Neuchâtel.
Index: food.tex
===================================================================
--- food.tex (revision 4488)
+++ food.tex (working copy)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
We went from \textbf{43 meals} on the first DebCamp day to \textbf{265 meals} during the Debian Birthday Party, for a grand total of \textbf{5312 meals} served by the Le Camp cook staff during the two weeks of presence.
The attendee categories were approximately as following: 4\% \textit{vegan}, 18\% \textit{vegetarians} and 77\% \textit{regular}.
-One need imposed by having fixed categories per attendee is to ensure that everyone only eats what he signed up for, but this was made really difficult by the fact that all three types of food were visually and tastefully appealing!
+One need imposed by having fixed categories per attendee is to ensure that everyone only eats what they signed up for, but this was made really difficult by the fact that all three types of food were appealing visually and in taste!
Thanks to the cook staff, this has only been a problem once; and got fixed very rapidly.
We also requested from the cook staff some special requests to suit our needs.
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
\end{itemize}
All in all, despite some early skepticism, the cook team from Le Camp has been truly excellent and a trustworthy partner all along the course of DebCamp and DebConf.
-Their reactiveness has been fantastic: for example, when some attendees asked to have some non-sweet at breakfast: not only was this accepted without a hesitation, but truly excellent Swiss cheese has provided from then on at every breakfast!
-Also, when lack of food happened in one occasion (because we provided them wrong numbers), they reacted very quickly and managed to find a good solution in half an hour.
+Their reactiveness has been fantastic: for example, when some attendees asked to have some non-sweet at breakfast: not only was this accepted without a hesitation, but truly excellent Swiss cheese was provided from then on at every breakfast!
+Also, when a lack of food happened on one occasion (because we provided them wrong numbers), they reacted very quickly and managed to find a good solution in half an hour.
We are very thankful to Pierre Schwab and all his cook team for their presence, openness and generally very helpful attitude during the two weeks.
Index: impressions.tex
===================================================================
--- impressions.tex (revision 4488)
+++ impressions.tex (working copy)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
Yesterday we also met with Luk, and discussed what to do with the ancient net-tools package. We had had the idea of writing compatibility wrappers using iproute2, but that turned out to be too complicated and brittle. After looking a the current state of net-tools, and its reverse dependencies, we decided that the best way to go is to deprecate it by asking rdepends to migrate to iproute2 (for most of them it should be trivial), and then downgrade net-tools to optional. It won't be removed from the archive, as people will still want it, but it will not be required by any core functionality any more.
-In the next few days, we will be sending an email to debian-devel, and filling about 80 bugs to get rid of the dependency on net-tools, many with patches.
+In the next few days, we will be sending an email to debian-devel, and filing about 80 bugs to get rid of the dependency on net-tools, many with patches.
}
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
Still, I participated to discussions around samba packaging (mostly animated by Ivo De Decker) and I think we're making good progress towards samba 4.x packages. The road is long, quite complicated, but we now have a stronger team, with a very active Ivo, Jeroen Dekkers who officially joined, and Steve Langasek who still cherishes one of his pet packages (and even branched in our git with the Ubuntu packages). Great work and thanks to Ivo for pushing this forward.
-I also worked quite actively on the migration of fonts packages to git (I now reached the point where I'm more comfortable with git than svn, yes, everything can happen). These packages were modernized at the same time and checked for new upstream versions (I have to say that few of these fonts had new upstream versions, indeed). We unfortunately found no time to have a good font BoF in Vaumarcus, indeed...but I'm not sure we would have many things to say. The work is done and done well, in this team.
+I also worked quite actively on the migration of fonts packages to git (I now reached the point where I'm more comfortable with git than svn, yes, everything can happen). These packages were modernized at the same time and checked for new upstream versions (I have to say that few of these fonts had new upstream versions, indeed). We unfortunately found no time to have a good font BoF in Vaumarcus, indeed... but I'm not sure we would have many things to say. The work is done and done well, in this team.
-Some progress was made, also, for restoring a working ``monolithic'' build of D-I. This build gathers together all udebs from unstable, which means it offers a D-I image that uses ALL udebs from unstable.....which is not the default of other images. This would be very helpful for translators who want to check their work as soon as possible. In the future, with a Jenkins task that would build each package at each commit and then build a monolithic image, we could have a way to provide a test snapshot of D-I git repos.....which could help catching more bugs (or more of my stupid mistakes).
+Some progress was made, also, for restoring a working ``monolithic'' build of D-I. This build gathers together all udebs from unstable, which means it offers a D-I image that uses ALL udebs from unstable... which is not the default of other images. This would be very helpful for translators who want to check their work as soon as possible. In the future, with a Jenkins task that would build each package at each commit and then build a monolithic image, we could have a way to provide a test snapshot of D-I git repos... which could help catching more bugs (or more of my stupid mistakes).
So, in general, I consider this a quite successful DebConf when it comes at ``real'' production.
}
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
% permission received 2013-10-21
\blogpost{http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/best_DebConf_ever/}{Joey Hess}{
-For me, DebConf13 in Switzerland was a perfect DebConf, and generally an great developer meeting and conference. I've attended several past DebConfs in Canada, Norway, Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, NYC, Bosnia, and Nicaragua. I have special memories of each. DebConf13 was ideal in every way.
+For me, DebConf13 in Switzerland was a perfect DebConf, and generally a great developer meeting and conference. I've attended several past DebConfs in Canada, Norway, Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, NYC, Bosnia, and Nicaragua. I have special memories of each. DebConf13 was ideal in every way.
Let's start with the camping. Only a minority of us did it, and my campsite was located in a small field behind a bar that was often noisy late into the night, when I was trying to rest and preserve my European jet lag remedy of inverted sleeping schedule. Still, I love sleeping cocooned in a tent, and going through the routines of camping and spending time alone there was a good counterpoint to DebConf. I generally find myself retreating for a day or two in the middle of a week-long conference, burnt out with social interactions. That didn't happen this time. I need to find way to camp at future DebConfs.
Index: numbers.tex
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--- numbers.tex (revision 4488)
+++ numbers.tex (working copy)
@@ -103,6 +103,6 @@
Also as in the previous years, food preferences diverge strongly from
the trends in the population at large: while 234 attendees specified
no dietary restrictions, 40 were vegetarian and 9 vegan (strict
-vegetarian). This means that (taking into account with people who
-selected not to eat with the rest group or had other specific needs)
+vegetarian). This means that (taking into account people who
+chose not to eat with the rest of the group or had other specific needs)
we had 17\% vegetarians in the group.
Index: registration.tex
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--- registration.tex (revision 4488)
+++ registration.tex (working copy)
@@ -46,6 +46,6 @@
attendees are checked in by members of the front desk team, and
receive their name badge, and their conference bag, with a t-shirt,
materials from sponsors, and information about DebConf itself and the
-local area. The front desk remains open as an easily accessible point for attendees to get more information about the conference or coordinate with the team at large; the front desk becomes the DebConf customer service center.
+local area. The front desk remains open as an easily accessible point for attendees to get more information about the conference or coordinate with the team at large; the front desk becomes the DebConf customer service centre.
Index: talks.tex
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--- talks.tex (revision 4488)
+++ talks.tex (working copy)
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
reject talk proposals, and have a very small set of plenary talks.
%
That does not mean at all that we lack a talks selection team. A group
-of volunteers goes over the talks submitted before the deadline, rate
-them and prepare the preliminary schedule.
+of volunteers goes over the talks submitted before the deadline, rates
+them and prepares the preliminary schedule.
%
Talks are rated according to three main criteria:
%
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
\item[Debian for the cloud] The operating system we produce is among
the most popular server systems, while in the server space,
consolidation and cloud computing is all the rage. We had a very
- interesting mix of talks, both about on Debian systems integration
+ interesting mix of talks, both about Debian systems integration
with the main commercial cloud providers and about using Debian as
the infrastructure upon which to build private clouds.
\item[Building and porting] Not too long ago, the direction of
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
such as the ARM and MIPS gained a lot of traction in mobile
devices, and now seem to be making inroads in the desktop and server
spaces as well. Now, cross-building and multi-arch systems have once
- again become not only relevant but strategical.
+ again become not only relevant but strategic.
%
There are exciting developments in this area from the software side
as well: Linux development has historically been identified with the
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
traditional initialization system, derived straight from the
\textit{Unix System V}, is no longer enough. One of the toughest
decisions the Debian project faces for our mid-term development is
- choosing which of the alternatives should we adopt. An entire very
+ choosing which of the alternatives we should adopt. An entire very
interesting track on what would have once seemed a too specific topic
was sparked by this reality.
\item[Debian teams] Debian has naturally become structured around
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
formal tracks.
On a more personal note, I have personally always tried to be a part
-of the talks team, and have always considered it a privilege and a
+of the talks team, and have always considered it a privilege and an
honor. Not being able to travel to DebConf this year, being involved in
planning the set of talks we would host at least allowed me to have a
significant part of the formally most important part of our conference.
Index: words-dpl.tex
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--- words-dpl.tex (revision 4488)
+++ words-dpl.tex (working copy)
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
DebConf13 when I felt so lucky to be part of such a great community.
All this has been made possible by more people than could possibly be listed
-here. From the organising team to the speakers, from participants to sponsors,
+here. From the organizing team to the speakers, from participants to sponsors,
from locals to government officials, and to everyone else whom I forgot to
mention: thank you all. I hope you will enjoy reading this report to remember
(if you attended) or try to imagine (if you did not) what DebConf13 has been.
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