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Date: 2015-03-11
Chair for this meeting: indiebio
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*General
[todo] meetbot/ tibit minuting stuffs? - nkukard and indiebio to take offlineChannels and mailing lists the team should be on:
- mailing
list:debconf16-team@lists.debian.org,
debconf-team@lists.debconf.org - IRC: #debconf16-capetown, #debconf-team
* 00:02 - Timeline: # no lead yet - no one looking into this as is quite early
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Timeline - Report back: Progressing well
- Has [inprogress] [todo] [done], need more structure in terms of who is responsible, next actions needed, in a visually sensible way.
[todo] indiebio to compare timeline and DCx stuff, maybe take offline with wendar as lead? - Use this timeline and/or LocalTeamRoles (
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Teams?) to give a rough outline of jobs and places people can get involved in by early April.
* 00:04 - Budget: nkukard
- Report back
- No feedback yet. Waiting for end of March when things have calmed down to get madduck to show me what he has (it should be complete by then).
- Observing DC15 budget, currently in approval phase (madduck)
* 00:09 - Accommodation: indiebio
- Report back: Finally made contact with UCT Accommodation,
phelokazi.mbebe@uct.ac.za. Response generally positive.
- Catering has to be included in accommodation. Options (2015 prices, pppd, VAT incl): Breakfast: R46.00 Mid-morning snack: R26.00
Lunch: R51.00 Packed Meals (Lunch & Dinner) R66.00 Dinner R56.00 Braai: R138.00
- Concern: no alcohol policy in residences. Hope to work around this with good behaviour, possibly breakage deposit?
- Concern: no family accommodation on (upper) campus. indiebio will investigate other UCT options, e.g. All Africa House. Guesthouses close by also an option.
- Email discussion: link:
https://lists.debian.org/debconf16-team/2015/03/msg00020.html[todo] Have a local team meeting over lunch at UCT catering
[todo] indiebio to explore contracting with Phelo
[todo] (later) explore how enforced the no-alcohol policy is for mature people.* 00:14 - Sponsors: # no lead yet
# madduck added some todos into the brochure.tex file debconf-data/dc15/sponsorship-brochure
# Hodgestar to send indiebio a list of sponsors contacted for PyConZA
# We can maybe add local context to this
http://media.debconf.org/dc15/fundraising/debconf15_sponsorship_brochure.pdf - We're working on design theme/logo before brochure.
[todo] start work on brochure end March/early April
- wendar, superfly volunteers to work on the text
- We should aim to be well known to sponsors by around October/November 2015
- The fiscal year of dc16 starts on 1 March 2016
- madduck takes the task to bootstrap the dc16 debconf-data repo and copy the dc15 brochure there: link: ssh://
git.debian.org/git/debconf-data/dc16* 00:23 - Hangover156: nkukard
- Report back on progress
- Postponed to next DC15 meet I believe, ran out of time. Madduck said he'd a question to the team to see what they thought.
- madduck to send email to list about it.
* 00:33 - Logo / Design Brainstorming: superfly (indiebio thoughts here:
http://indiebio.co.za/blog/event-organising)
- Reportback on progress
- Colours: Main colour? Two secondary colours (incl Debian Red)?
- Font: previous DebConf font? Andika Basic:
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15/Germany/LogoContest. superfly might play with it.
- Two logos: Square + "DebConf16 Cape Town" + whatever else
* 00:45 - Website: superfly
- Report back
[todo] superfly to mail list about getting a wafer instance up and running