On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:47:13PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 01/12/12 01:32, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Freitag, 30. November 2012, David Prévot wrote: > > > >> I fail to understand, if you really “don't want to be spreading > >> unverified rumours”, why are you posting this kind of questions to two > >> other wider mailing lists? > >> > > [...] > > > >> http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20121102.150947.08f4206c.en.html > >> > > it's a dead horse. old, long dead. > > > > No, it's not Regardless of it's current age or health, can y'all please do the horse beating elsewhere? > > I made two trips to evaluate an alternative venue > > Feeling threatened by this competition, rather than working harder to > get a good deal, proponents of the original venue suddenly "secured" 40k > CHF of anonymous sponsorship, but with various strings attached, > including a condition that the original venue was used > > Consequently, the other merits of the venues were not heavily discussed > and one of the DebConf chairs (yourself) suddenly started publicly > endorsing Le Camp with the original super-size budget > > The fact that the 40k promise was taken away again a few days after your > epiphany doesn't change the fact that it was on the table while you were > in Switzerland doing the venue evaluation. > > With this new found enthusiasm for Le Camp, much more time was then > wasted taking a fresh look at the Le Camp budget, valuable time that > could have been spent negotiating a better deal or looking at other > venues. In the end, when the figures didn't add up, DebCamp had to be > abolished, and many people now feel that is a bad thing for Debian overall. > > Whether it was sponsorship or a loan or something else doesn't really > matter either: your communications from 28 October indicated that this > money was a key factor in your decision to endorse Le Camp. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 50BA0A61.3070103@pocock.com.au">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 50BA0A61.3070103@pocock.com.au > -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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