Hi all, sorry for the late reply on this important discussion: lately I was really really busy (in real life) and I just did Debian work if cruelly pinged ;). First of all, just a correction: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 01:30:10AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 12/25/2011 11:11 PM, Arne Wichmann wrote: > [...] > >> b) at least for those who have access to Debian machines nothing is > >> happening behind the scene, given that 'events@d.o' is archived on > >> master [8]. > > > >> [8] <http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/events/README?revision=1.8&view=markup> > > > > I have not. Am I the only one to which this applies? > > No. we often have people organizing stuff which are not DDs. Not-DDs can be added to @debian.org alias: at least I was added at events@d.o when I wasn't a DD yet, and the same happened for cdvendors@debian.org. Wrt organization: wiki is really useful for organizing stuff. And is also quite easy to follow the organization process *if* you're aware of the existence of the wikipage. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 01:30:10AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > May be the events team should - instead of founding itself - talk to those > people who are known to provide merch and booth material if they want to join > and what they can provide? [...] > > Even better: the even team should consist of people from each d-events-$(locale) > list (probably those who are organizing a lot of stuff). > Oh!! Finally! To make a long story short: I have no experience of organizing events, for instance, and I'm in the events team just to do the promoting/www part. It's quite a while that me and Luca are talking about enlarge the team, to include at least 1 person from each part-of-the-world where events are more regularly organized. This person need to be one who often organizes events/booths, so someone with experience and who knows practical things about events. Now, we usually have a lot of events in Europe mostly in the German-speaking area, but also in France and UK. Then we have few events in the US, some in Hispano America and Brazil and a *lot* of events in India (thanks to the Debian India group) and some in Taiwan. I've thought about a couple of names for some of these areas (please fill the list of possible candidates for this area, or propose yourself!), to be part of the events team: German-speaking area: Annette Kalbow, Arne Wichmann, Axel Beckert, Franziska Lichtblau France-speaking area: Carl Chenet, Sylvestre Ledru UK: ... US: ... Hispano America: Fernando Estrada, Gunnar Wolf Brazil: Ana Caroll Comandulli, Marcelo Santana India: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil Taiwan: Andrew Lee I think that having (at least) one person for each area in the events team, acting as a proxy between the local organizers and the Debian Project could be a good idea. Again (to avoid misunderstanding) I think that decentralized organization is the best option due to the fact that "it works!"™, but there are some area where the Debian project could help: promoting the events on internet, offering the Event Box and other material, etc. And this is actually the work to be done on the event team. Just this :) So, no problem (from my PoV) in let people organize events on specific mailing lists and their languages, as far as there is a person who can act as a proxy between local organizers and Debian. If you all agree on this part, I'd really like to start to send some invitation to the events team. ;) Cheers Francesca -- "Nostra patria è il mondo intero e nostra legge è la libertà ed un pensiero ribelle in cor ci sta." P.Gori
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