DebConf17/18 Handover BoF
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=== Introductions ===

Meet DebConf Committee:
Delegation: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/01/msg00003.html

Meet Local team 2017:
* Lavamind
* Tiago
* Lelutin
* Pollo
* abdelq
* taowa

Local team 2018:
in person at the meeting:
* ChangZhuo Chen (czchen)
* paulliu
* Yao Wei (medicalwei-guest)
remote/not here:
* Andrew Lee (ajqlee)
* Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)
* SZ Lin (szlin)
* fourdollars
* Peter Dave Hello
* Wen Liao
* ...

DPLs:
* Mehdi, previous DPL
* Chris, current DPL

Content team:
* Gunnar Wolf

== 2017 Feedback ==

* DebConf Committee have been dealing with a case where we have received
  complaints from multiple teams against a long-time DebConf contributor.
  We're working on a resolution and hoping for a resolution that works for
  everyone.
* Regular face-to-face meetings helped a lot and provided a bit of room for
  everyone to get to know each other
* kanban worked really well for local orga team, easy to add quick actions (3 am
  ideas)
* https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/TeamRoles
* Timeline, was a good excercise to work on. Helps for a high-level view of
  what's going on. Really important to update that every meeting along with 
  kanboard.
* Prioritize the tasks
* Migrate kanboard (or debconf.org) to be maintained under DSA (we have DSA in
  DC18 local team!)
* Tooling: there's flexibility in tools which can be used, but try not to
  re-invent the wheel for no good reason and unless you can commit the time
  and effort required
* Tooling: nice to have someone on the team that knows Django well
* Gunnar: Urges local team not to re-implement new conf management system
* Pollo: Working with the caterer really early on worked out great
* Jerome: Felt like there was more time available to interact with catering
          people and gather more data. It's an important decision so it's worth
          while to take the time and make the best possible decision. Interact
          and meet with caterers extensively. Team already had a good
          relationship with caterer so it was easier to ask/discuss some
          specific requests.
* Tiago:  Feeding 300 people was a big challenge for the caterers. It's
          important not to push local suppliers for more than what they can
          realistically do. Some mitigations and compromises were made to 
          reduce stress on supplier and ensure that there was enough food for
          everyone. It was never the ambition of the local team to have the
          best or biggest debconf, some local team members dissapeared along the
          way, and others picked up the slack who may not have been perceived
          as ideal, but they pulled it off. Show solidarity for your team
          members and try to maintain sanity.
* Gunnar: Will current local orga carry on to help with DebConf orga next year?
          (anonymized): Still thinking about it, but would like to be involved
                        in specific areas, will continue to contribute in
                        existing teams.
* Odyx: It's great if we as debconf-committee can stay in the loop and help
        obtain consensus easier on issues
* Jerome: People, especially newcommers, will take on tasks and dissappear

Questions from DC18 team:

Sponsors: have someone local who can speak mandarin who can help co-ordinate
          with local sponsors and dc-sponsors team. Also, retry contacting
          global team sponsorship leader.
Translations: Would be useful to get translations from sponsors so that sponsors
              team can stay in the loop.

Communications:
Jerome: There's a local list in french, not much used past the early phase. Mailing
lists used much less than before. It was more important for the team to
communicate directly and get things done than to have everything on the record.
Nattie: It's good to keep at least the final decisions and outcomes on the record
Stefano: timezones was really difficult this year, multiple pings and discussions
over by breakfast time
Daniel: DC17 website will soon be migrated to static site once al content is
finalised.
Some structure can be transfered to new DC18 site.