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#debconf-team: talks team: the final cut
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Meeting started by dkg at 23:04:03 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2010/debconf-team.2010-06-02-23.04.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* present: _hc, dkg, micah, DrDub_, Hydroxide  (dkg, 23:04:33)
* LINK:
  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Meetings#talks_team_meeting_Wednesday_2010-06-02_23:00UTC__.287pm_NYC_time.29
  (micah, 23:05:07)
* agenda overview  (dkg, 23:08:24)
  * LINK: https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/   (Hydroxide,
    23:14:17)
  * LINK: https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/ is two years ago
    (Hydroxide, 23:15:40)
  * _hc thinks talks should not be scheduled for 1 hr  (dkg, 23:16:43)
  * everyone else thinks that we should make the slots 1h but not
    require every talk to use the whole time  (Hydroxide, 23:17:28)
  * 3 plenaries: 78 talks; 6 plenaries: 72 talks  (dkg, 23:21:42)
  * AGREED: BoFs within tracks shouldn't be placed in Schapiro  (dkg,
    23:24:27)
  * Hydroxide doubts the relevance to this meeting of room/timing
    choices  (Hydroxide, 23:24:58)
  * AGREED: we will accept talks (BoFs and non-BoFs) today only for
    scheduling in the two main rooms; BoFs that are rejected today will
    get first pick at time slots in Schapiro  (dkg, 23:29:50)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Teams has it under the
    talks team  (dkg, 23:33:42)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/TalkGlossary
    (Hydroxide, 23:42:50)

* plenaries  (dkg, 23:44:00)
  * AGREED: opening and closing plenaries are accepted.  (dkg, 23:45:15)
  * AGREED: Bits from the DPL will be a plenary  (dkg, 23:49:32)
  * AGREED: Eben moglen's talk is a plenary  (dkg, 23:51:25)
  * LINK: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/642   (micah,
    00:04:01)
  * LINK: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/pentabarf/event/636   (micah,
    00:04:12)
  * AGREED: 4 plenaries total: open, close, DPL, eben  (dkg, 00:11:30)
  * we need to accept 76 talks for scheduling  (dkg, 00:13:28)

* dealing with the "top" and "bottom"  (dkg, 00:14:12)

* the middle third  (dkg, 00:52:41)

* notification  (dkg, 02:58:36)
  * LINK: http://whiteboard.debian.net/dc10-talks-mails.wb   (dkg,
    03:02:05)
  * LINK: http://whiteboard.debian.net/dc10-talks-mails.wb   (dkg,
    03:04:49)
  * LINK: http://whiteboard.debian.net/dc10-talks-mails.wb   (dkg,
    03:10:29)
  * AGREED: we will ask MrBeige to send a scripted acceptance to the
    submitters of each accepted talk  (dkg, 03:53:11)
  * ACTION: micah will personally contact the submitters of Unscheduled
    talks and mark them as accepted once the submitter reconfirms  (dkg,
    03:54:05)
  * ACTION: dkg will sort out the different flavors of rejected  (dkg,
    03:54:20)
  * ACTION: Hydroxide will give dkg technical support for representing
    this task in penta.debconf.org  (dkg, 03:54:45)
  * ACTION: dkg will review tracks situations as wel  (dkg, 03:58:10)

Meeting ended at 03:59:52 UTC.




Action Items
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* micah will personally contact the submitters of Unscheduled talks and
  mark them as accepted once the submitter reconfirms
* dkg will sort out the different flavors of rejected
* Hydroxide will give dkg technical support for representing this task
  in penta.debconf.org
* dkg will review tracks situations as wel




Action Items, by person
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* dkg
  * dkg will sort out the different flavors of rejected
  * Hydroxide will give dkg technical support for representing this task
    in penta.debconf.org
  * dkg will review tracks situations as wel
* Hydroxide
  * Hydroxide will give dkg technical support for representing this task
    in penta.debconf.org
* micah
  * micah will personally contact the submitters of Unscheduled talks
    and mark them as accepted once the submitter reconfirms
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* dkg (345)
* Hydroxide (269)
* micah (121)
* DrDub_ (65)
* _hc (45)
* MrBeige (26)
* Clint (16)
* moray (8)
* DrDub (8)
* biella (4)
* MeetBot (2)
* gwolf (1)
* edrz (1)




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