Hello Luca, and others, I am definitely interested to see a debian conference here in Geneva. I think we have an excellent location, easy and relatively cheap to fly here or by train or car. I think CERN and a number of international organizations should be approached as sponsors. CERN is facing a financial crunch but they have excellent facilities. I have started the following page: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Geneva I look forward to working with you to develop a full fledged proposal. Others seem to have a bit more preparation, so we should get on to it as soon as possible, to be able to have something to show for the 30th. Thanks, Gerold Rupprecht On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 03:56 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there! > > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:02:35 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > Call for DebConf13 bids > > ----------------------- > > > > Moray Allan made a call for DebConf13 bids [13]. As he says: "there will > > be a chance to describe your bid to the rest of the DebConf attendees > > during a special session at DebConf11, probably on 30 July." Even if you > > can't participate in this event you can send some slides to present your > > bid. If you want to organize DebConf in your city, please make a page for > > your bid in theDebConf wiki [14], and add a link to the DebConf13 page > > [15]. Before this don't forget to read the location checklist page [16]. > > You can also look at this year's [17] and next year's [18] bids as > > examples. You can get additional information in the #debconf-team channel > > on irc.debian.org. > > > > 13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/07/msg00007.html > > 14 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Main_Page > > 15 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13 > > 16 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/LocationCheckList > > 17 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Category:DebConf11_bids > > 18 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Category:DebConf12_bids > > Is anyone interesting? Should we apply or at least ventilate the > hypothesis to hold it in Switzerland? Some reasons why I think we > should at least announce it to the world: > > 1) according to Chistian [1] we are the second largest Debian Developer > community... relative, I know, but still! Actually, I am quite sure > that if some few members will become DDs we will beat .fi ;-) > > [1] <http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/06/12#devel-countries-201106-3> > > 2) people during various conferences and or gatherings (being Debian- or > Free Software-related or even private) have discussed about that > quite a lot, it is time we do something. > > 3) the debian.ch community is quite visible, despite actually not being > so in Switzerland, it is worlwide, mostly because of the merchandise > stuff and the presence at conferences. > > Gerold (cc:ed) privately offered to help organizing a Debian-related > events in the French part of Switzerland: we should for sure start > setting something like the Mini DebConf Paris 2010 [2], but both events > are not mutually exclusive. > > [2] <http://fr2010.mini.debconf.org/> > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca -- Gerold Rupprecht <geroldr@bluewin.ch> 10, rue Louis-Curval CH-1206 Genève, Suisse Mobile: +41 (0) 79 914 29 52
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