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Early-bird date?
by Andrew Findlay 12 Aug '15

12 Aug '15

I currently have 1st October as the cut-off date for early-bird ticket prices, but I am thinking that may be a bit too early! We obviously want people to book as early as possible, but what about running early-bird up to 10th October? Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/ +44 1628 782565 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ticket prices, budgets, and risk
by Andrew Findlay 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

Here is what I am proposing for ticket prices: Conference Early Bird (before 1st Oct 2015) £130 Full £180 Student £35 Tutorials Early Bird (before 1st Oct 2015) £60 Full £80 Student £15 Extras Extra place at conference dinner £30 These are broadly similar to the 2013 prices (depending on what date you use for the Euro-Pound conversion). The student rate includes refreshments during the day but not the conference dinner. The extra-dinner rate is actually below the marginal cost (£45-ish) but we are probably talking very small numbers here. If we can achieve similar numbers and sponsorship to the 2013 figures and assuming we provide similar financial support for some of the speakers this should result in about £600 profit. (I am assuming about 16 paying for tutorials here, as well as about 40 paying for conference tickets) Once we publish the prices we will have limited flexibility to affect the financial outcome. Things we can control: a) How much support we offer to speakers b) How much we spend on food and drink for the dinner c) Whether or not we provide conference giveaways (none currently in the budget) Things we can influence by persuasion: d) Sponsorship That leads to the big question: who carries the risk, and what happens to the profit if we make one? Thoughts on that and on the proposed ticket prices please! Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/ +44 1628 782565 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Draft tutorial programme
by Andrew Findlay 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Here is the draft tutorial programme: Draft Tutorial Programme for LDAPCon 2015 09:00 Registration + Coffee 09:30 Welcome 09:40 LDAP Basics (Andrew Findlay or other LDAP regular) 10:10 The LDAP Directory Schema: a guide for the newcomer (Giovanni Baruzzi) 11:15 Coffee 11:30 Active Directory as a powerful LDAP server: the unknown tips (Alban Meunier) 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Parallel Sessions (a) Applying End-to-End Security Across a Java Web Environment Using LDAP and Apache Fortress (Shawn McKinney) (b) Use ACI/ACL to move fast to a stronger and safer directory (Alban Meunier) 15:15 Tea 15:30 Parallel Sessions (a) Configuring and Securing 389 (Amita Sharma) (b) Install and configure web2ldap on your own device (Michael Ströder) 17:30 Close What I am trying to do here is to cover a wide range of levels, from 'just heard of LDAP' up to 'need to do something quite advanced'. I would like to make this available for free to Edinburgh students and staff. I am wondering whether I have put the right things in parallel though - would it be better to run the two intro sessions against one of the more advanced topics (Shawn's for example)? If so, should we aim for a more obvious 'beginners track/advanced track'? Thoughts? Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/ +44 1628 782565 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Beamer specs
by Michael Ströder 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

HI! What technical specification does the beamer used for the talks has? Possible screen resolution? 16:9 vs. 4:3? Ciao, Michael.

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Dinner venues
by Stephen Quinney 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

I've been doing some research into possible dinner venues. There are lots of options, I've tried to restrict it those which are fairly close to the Informatics Forum and are also likely to be affordable. Here's a few thoughts of venues: The Hub - http://www.thehub-edinburgh.com/ Royal Society - https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/ Dovecot Studios - https://dovecotstudios.com/ Surgeons Hall - http://www.surgeonshall.com/ - likely to be very expensive Playfair Library - part of the university so cheaper but probably restricted to uni caterers I've contacted all of these for prices and menus and will visit the best. Kimball has previously visited The Hub and Doveot Studios when we looked for venues for the 2012 FLOSSUK conference. I think we liked them both at the time. In the end we chose The Caves - http://unusualvenuesedinburgh.com/ - which is incredible but the minimum required number is 60 which is likely to be too high for us. There are also a couple of restaurants which come highly recommended by other people in my school who have hosted conferences. The Cellar Door - http://www.thecellardooredinburgh.com/ - and Howies - http://www.howies.uk.com/waterloo-place-edinburgh/ - both do good Scottish food. I'll followup when I get more details. Stephen -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

> > Silver £500 > > Gold £900 > > Platinum £2000 > > Good point, lets talk pounds-sterling from here on out, and I think those prices are fine. Symas would go for the Platinum sponsorship at those rates. That's good to know, thanks. Could someone please dig out the 2013 sponsorship offer and send a summary of what was given for each level? We need to make some changes as the contribution for each level is now roughly half the 2013 value. Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Draft sponsorship page
by Andrew Findlay 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

http://ldapcon.org/2015/?page_id=101 I have not linked this into the site yet but it can be found by search. Corrections to me ASAP please as I plan to make it fully visible in a couple of days. Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/ +44 1628 782565 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: 1 Speakers moderator request(s) waiting
by Clément OUDOT 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hello, I am receiving these mails but the administration password of the mailing lists has been changed and I cannot approve or reject the subscription. Is someone responsible of mailing lists adminsitration? Clément. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <speakers-bounces(a)lists.ldapcon.org> Date: 2015-07-17 8:00 GMT+02:00 Subject: 1 Speakers moderator request(s) waiting To: speakers-owner(a)lists.ldapcon.org The Speakers(a)lists.ldapcon.org mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: https://lists.ldapcon.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/speakers Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. Pending subscriptions: sjsong(a)seojindsa.kr (sangjun song) Sat Jul 11 10:44:39 2015

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Dinner venues
by Andrew Findlay 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

On 16 Jul 2015 4:23 pm, Stephen Quinney <squinney(a)inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > I've been doing some research into possible dinner venues. > I'll followup when I get more details. Great - many thanks for doing the research. I will look at those links when I get home - it is remarkably awkward on this phone... Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

On 16 Jul 2015 9:49 pm, Matthew Hardin <mhardin(a)symas.com> wrote: > > Works for me. In terms of hard numbers it seems the conference would be out price of the meals and the price of admission for however many free entry tickets were included. Subtracting the current proposed figures for those (I don’t have them at hand) what would be the net amount received for each level of sponsorship? I don't have the numbers either, but the starting point is the 2013 prices, which I think were around £200 per person. That does not give much net income from silver/gold packages as they stand, and we may yet need to increase the ticket price. Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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