1. Bring DebConf home to your city!
Jimmy Kaplowitz, July 28th, 2009
Based on Holger Levsen's work from DebConf8

2. Outline Why do we do DebConf? Location Checklist Timeline
deadline for proposals
deadline for decision
deadline for defining decision process
Proposals

3. Why do we do DebConf?
For many reasons ;-)

4. Why do we do DebConf?
provide opportunity for DDs, interested people and existing teams within Debian to get together, discuss and hack on the Debian distribution and its infrastructure
educate people with talks and workshops
a chance to meet face to face, socialize, form stronger and more productive social bonds and brainstorm new ideas
boost the motivations of individuals and work groups

5. Why do we do DebConf? somewhat lower priority:
boost the local Debian community
to have some fun in RL to have more fun when hacking on the net
No goals, but nice (but "not important") by- products:
free food and accommodation in a nice place for DDs and contributors to give them something back to them for their continuous contributions.

6. Location Checklist Local team Choice of city / town / whatever
Conference Facilities
Food
Network connectivity
Special DebConf rooms
Accommodation
Fun and Free time activities
Local Sponsors

7. Timeline We'll start like we did for DebConf10:
We only decide on this timeline today
Deadline for proposals: December 31st 2009
Deadline for decision: April 1st 2010
aim for decision by March 1st 2010
Decision by rough consensus if possible, or else by weighing a series of prioritized factors and coming to a group decision as was done for DebConf7, DebConf8, and DebConf10
Any changes should be agreed by the end of 2009

8. Proposals Today's proposals, as far as I know... Bosnia Germany
In accordance with NFL American football rules, the visiting bid team (to the EU), Bosnia, will call a coin toss
Winner of the coin toss chooses which bid goes first
Please keep the proposals to ~20 min including questions — we won't decide on them today anyway.

9. Have fun at the rest of DebConf9!
:-)