Hi all,
In the next couple of weeks the decision on where to hold
next year's
DebConf will be made. The candidates at present are Sarajevo
(Bosnia,
SJJ) and Edinburgh (Scotland, EDI), with Safir Secerovic and
Moray Allan
being the chief contacts for the respective bids.
In light of the discussion in Mexico about bringing the
DebConf
organisation more closely into Debian, and hopefully making
it a bit
easier for the organisers to deal with SPI and other
organisations in
future by making the lead organiser(s) official delegates,
it seems like
a good idea to make a start now by officially delegating the
decision on
which of the two cities will host the next DebConf. So after
talking with
a few of the key organisers, the delegation is:
Andreas Schuldei (stockholm -- overall organisation)
Gunnar Wolf (gwolf -- local organisation)
Margarita Manterola (marga -- accommodation)
Alexander Schmehl (Tolimar -- talks)
Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff -- networking)
Bdale Garbee (bdale -- external perspective)
I believe these developers have a good understanding of all
the concerns
that the project expects the bidders to address, and I think
they each
have a great deal of experience and knowledge about a key
aspect of
running a good DebConf, as I've tried to indicate above.
Andreas, Alexander and Joerg will shortly be visiting both
locations to
quiz the organising teams and see the proposed venues close
up. Moray
(from the Edinburgh team) will be joining them in Sarajevo
so that the
two teams have a chance to talk in person about their
preparation so
far and ideas. We're hoping that it'll be obvious which
bid is best
prepared and that everyone, including both sets of potential
organisers,
will agree as to which bid is clearly the best, but in the
event that
there isn't a unanimous consensus, the delegates listed
above will vote,
with Andreas holding a casting vote in the case of a tie.
Obviously, they'll be able to make a better decision with
more
information, so please do contact any of the people
mentioned above,
and particularly the bid contacts Moray and Safir, if you
have helpful
suggestions that will improve the next DebConf, or, even
better, actually
pitch in and actually implement your idea, which to some
extent or
another, is how all the above folks have gotten involved.
Relevant lists:
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discu
ss
Cheers,
aj
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Anthony Towns, Debian Project Leader
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