On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, agustin benito bethencourt <abebe@suse.com> wrote:
Hi,
Thursday and Monday were defined as "soft day" in order to tell us when to arrive and leave. We have been working under that assumption since right before Christmas when, before the announcement was done, this design was made clear through this mailing list.
Please check the thread:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-conference/2012-12/msg00022.html
So we are arriving on Thursday and leaving on Monday ... with all the consequences that decision have, following the advice.
One of those consequences is that we are bringing material that is under our responsibility so we should make sure it is shipped back by us. We won't leave our material behind. We cannot for obvious reasons.
What can we do about it?
Not all the material we are sending will come back. I need to figure out, besides the video setup, what other services would be affected. I assume that the openSUSE booth might be partially affected too. I will try to get more details about this.
The only way I will leave the material until Tuesday is if:
1.- A SUSE employee takes under his responsibility the shipment back of all the material.
2.- This person is found before the shipment is done, so we do not need to change the conditions of the shipment.
I will look for that person.
I understand this is not good news and, as I said, we will work on a solution but I think that assigning SUSE any responsibility or some kind of "mood for sabotage" is unfair. Things like budget, traveling dates, etc. were set many months ago, not recently.
If you guys didn't want Monday to be a conference day you could just
tell us, less work for everyone and especially the organizing team, I
am giving away my time and my days off from my actual work and
personal vacations and you tell me now something that I hear as bla
bla bla. If we cannot record the talks and workshops we are simply
showing the finger to the people that will do that talks and workshops
that day and all that because someone said that things have to be
packed one day earlier, excuse me but I find that ridiculous. C'mon
people, thinking outside the box is what we do best. For me if we
cannot have recordings on Monday let's just cancel the talks on that
day. I apreciate every single person who will come to the conference
and I prefer to cut Monday than let the people who have a talk or a
workshop think that I don't apreciate them. I am a volunteer and if I
were one of those people I would prefer that than to have the feeling
that I am underestimated.
We are planning talks and workshops for more that a month now
including Monday and everybody knows that, when was that planning for
stuff leaving Monday morning was made? Yesterday that we talked that
was not the plan Afaik.
This is all my personal opinion and I am willing to carry my part of
the responsibility here.
Kostas
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Agustin Benito Bethencourt
openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE
abebe@suse.com
Goodmorning all, soft days have been defined in the first 2 conference meetings - feel free to look up the logs. Never ever was it mentioned that these days are used for arriving and leaving to/from conference. In fact it was suggested at some point that on Monday we even hold the Project Meeting. Moreover there were 2 people from openSUSE Team in the Program Committee, we all worked under the assumption of putting some pre-scheduled talks on Monday. But little do all these things matter now. Monday has full schedule until the afternoon - we had a lot of interesting submissions and has been quite difficult make decisions about it. Not being able tos chedule anything from SUSE employees on Monday has been a challenge. As a result we will be using all network and video equipment, including live streaming until all talks are over and we begin the tear down. Juergen and Lars are leaving on Tuesday and will be at the venue on Monday to continue all relevant operations and pack video equipment on Monday after everything is finished. Now, that covers the equipment. And please note that Juergen is already quite busy and has been for the couple last months with video preparations. openSUSE booth is up to Agustin. Let us know if there is something we can do to help. We will obviously have volunteers on Monday too. Stella -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org