Hi guys,
Some questions, which you might or might not like to answer..
* What do you think are the three big things Debian should achieve
over the next twelve months?
* What do you think will be the three major problems Debian will face
over the next year or two?
* Debian has had four DPLs so far: Ian Murdock, Bruce Perens, Ian
Jackson, and Wichert Akkerman. What do you think each of these DPLs did
right, and are there any examples of things you would do differently
in their place (with or without the benefit of hindsight)?
* The DPL is a fairly loosely defined position, so the successful
candidate can probably use that position to provide leadership in a
fair few areas. Bruce seemed particularly successful at publicising
Debian, and Ian Jackson did a fair bit of stuff getting Debian
set up procedurally. If elected, what sort of areas would you see
yourself focussing on: technical, political, procedural, publicity,
or something else? How would you see the areas you don't have the
time or ability to handle being dealt with?
* Debian is becoming increasingly appropriate for commercial purposes:
whether as a server in a place of business, or as a base for a derived
distribution, or as a base on which to run proprietry software. What
sort of things should we be doing to make Debian more suitable for
these uses, for example, having someone people can call and tell
their credit card number to, in case their server goes down and
they need it back up right now, or making our non-free archive more
readily available for people distributing no-cost (or trial-only)
proprietry software (such as jdk 1.2, perhaps)?
* Debian currently has a reasonable amount of cash thanks to both
donations and awards. What should we be doing with it?
* Do you still use proprietry, non-free, or unpackaged software (or
anything else not distributed by Debian) for anything? If so, what,
and is anything being done to remedy this unacceptable situation?
* What do you think about the social environment of Debian? For instance,
we tend to have a different flamewar every week; is this a
demonstration of our firey passion for what we're doing, or that we're
about to crash and burn? Should we be doing anything in particular to
change the demographics of our membership; perhaps trying to increase
the number of female developers, or documenters, or artists, or at
least to make it easier for such people to contribute? If so, what?
Are developers too removed from the userbase (with separate mailing
lists and IRC channels), or is the mix still pretty good?
Cheers,
aj
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