#debconf-nyc Meeting
Meeting started by Hydroxide at 23:00:05 UTC. The full
logs are available.
Meeting log
- Logo (Hydroxide-23:00:25)
- PResentation (Hydroxide-23:09:14)
- stuff to add / avoid in the presentation (Hydroxide-23:12:18)
- INFO: goal of the dc10 presentation at dc9: convince people that
dc10 will be awesome and that they should come
(Hydroxide-23:13:39)
- INFO: be positive, don't scare people away (Hydroxide-23:13:55)
- INFO: nyc has great tourist value (Clint-23:14:00)
- INFO: morningside heights is not a megacity, it's a nice
neighberhood (MrBeige-23:14:16)
- INFO: spanish widely spoken in the area (Hydroxide-23:14:34)
- INFO: maybe some information on airfares ? (MrBeige-23:14:43)
- INFO: near central park (Hydroxide-23:14:45)
- INFO: and near riverside park (Hydroxide-23:14:51)
- INFO: columbia has a lot of tech resources, won't be hard to
integrate with it (MrBeige-23:15:18)
- INFO: be brief and give one or two sample airfares - don't make it
a full slide (Hydroxide-23:16:01)
- INFO: 24-hour transportation runs all over the city
(Clint-23:16:46)
- INFO: no cars needed anywhere (MrBeige-23:17:00)
- INFO: touch on handicapped accessibility, but leave most details
for the website (Hydroxide-23:17:07)
- INFO: look at bid documents and see what the huge advantages for
nyc were there, include them (MrBeige-23:18:34)
- LINK: http://www.iloveny.com/ (Hydroxide-23:19:32)
- LINK: http://nycgo.com/ (Hydroxide-23:19:43)
- INFO: other nearby cities in the US (MrBeige-23:19:43)
- INFO: or other attractive areas for tourism (Clint-23:20:11)
- INFO: we don't want to spend too much of the presentation on
tourism (cf. "Don't have too much fun!") (Hydroxide-23:20:33)
- INFO: reword "don't have too much fun" and a few other bits to be
positive not negative (Hydroxide-23:21:31)
- INFO: emphasize greatly that NYC is incredibly multicultural and
not at all like much of the rest of the US (MrBeige-23:22:03)
- INFO: visa and border issues are already in the presentation
structure - details will be provided by Frank (Hydroxide-23:22:17)
- INFO: mention taxi and limo stuff along with other transportation
options (Hydroxide-23:23:39)
- INFO: and helicopter (yes, it's available) (Hydroxide-23:24:11)
- INFO: definitely talk about the food! (Hydroxide-23:24:33)
- INFO: day-trip things should be mentioned (Hydroxide-23:25:06)
- INFO: tourist daytrip options, naturalistic/explorational daytrip
options, lesser-known urban bits daytrip options...
(Hydroxide-23:25:34)
- INFO: For transport mention yellow cabs, limo, and shuttle buses
(bgupta-23:25:40)
- INFO: photos of columbia (Hydroxide-23:26:36)
- INFO: a map or two (Hydroxide-23:26:41)
- INFO: brief info on nightlife (bgupta-23:27:17)
- INFO: briefly mention NYC's nightlife (Hydroxide-23:27:18)
- INFO: < Clint> MrBeige: and like how there's something
identifiable as a campus, unlike nyu (MrBeige-23:27:42)
- INFO: Make sure the columbia map is color if available
(bgupta-23:28:46)
- dividing up the presentation work (Hydroxide-23:29:28)
- website (Hydroxide-23:38:21)
- web redesign (Hydroxide-23:44:03)
- goals for DebCamp9 (Hydroxide-23:46:56)
- INFO: dc10 site redesign doesn't have to happen before dc9, though
it can if things magically work out that way (Hydroxide-23:49:02)
- INFO: goals for debcamp9: sponsor pack + loose ends
(Hydroxide-23:51:02)
- Anyone else need debconf-data SVN write access?
(Hydroxide-23:51:26)
- When to let the US press start writing about DC10
(Hydroxide-23:52:01)
- INFO: bgupta already found an eweek.com reporter who wants to
write about the first US debconf (Hydroxide-23:52:22)
- INFO: so far we're waiting on that until after dc9 occurs and/or
the dc10 dates are set. should we change this?
(Hydroxide-23:52:42)
- INFO: eweek reporter has also offered to help us get more press
contacts. (bgupta-23:53:44)
- INFO: future meeting agenda topic, probably good to resolve before
press coverage: determine what OpenDay for DC10 is like
(Hydroxide-23:54:15)
- brief mention: visa meeting with Frank (Hydroxide-23:56:42)
- INFO: we couldn't have Frank here to discuss visa/border issues as
originally planned, due to Frank's travel schedule
(Hydroxide-23:57:22)
- INFO: we will have that meeting when he is back, plus do status
updates on stuff we talked about today (Hydroxide-23:57:33)
- Next meeting (Hydroxide-23:57:45)
- Any other business (Hydroxide-23:59:40)
Meeting ended at 00:07:40 UTC.
Action Items
- MrBeige takes the venue parts
- and MrBeige also takes morningside heights related sections (hopefully
with some help)
- bgupta does the "yay NYC is great" parts
- jvasile will help with Morningside Heights, though it's been a few
years since he lived there
- Jimmy will remind Frank about the visa/border stuff in the context of
the presentation
- Jimmy will deal with the local team bit and the NYC transportation bit
- including airport
- Hydroxide requests alioth login for jvasile
- Hydroxide requests jvasile added to -data repo
- bgupta will find someone who might want to help with website visual
redesign and will have them email
debconf10-localteam@lists.debconf.org
- everyone probs MrBeige to do DC10 work, not DC9 work
Action Items, by person
- bgupta
- Hydroxide
- Hydroxide requests alioth login for jvasile
- Hydroxide requests jvasile added to -data repo
- jvasile
- jvasile will help with Morningside Heights, though it's been a few
years since he lived there
- Hydroxide requests alioth login for jvasile
- Hydroxide requests jvasile added to -data repo
- MrBeige
- MrBeige takes the venue parts
- and MrBeige also takes morningside heights related sections
(hopefully with some help)
- everyone probs MrBeige to do DC10 work, not DC9 work
- UNASSIGNED
- Jimmy will remind Frank about the visa/border stuff in the context
of the presentation
- Jimmy will deal with the local team bit and the NYC transportation
bit
- including airport
People Present (lines said)
- Hydroxide (209)
- MrBeige (99)
- bgupta (42)
- Clint (35)
- moray (30)
- jvasile (9)
- schultmc (5)
- tonyb486 (1)
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