Re: Inviting questions from SPI
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I have been nominated to run for board this year and I have accepted. > You can see my "reasons why" here: > > http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/votes/vote6/jdrake.txt > > I am inviting anyone who has any questions to ask them. I see that you plan * An agressive increase in the number and quality of associate projects Question is: how are you planning to increase the _quality_ of associate projects? And how do you measure quality in the first place? -- Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39º 49' 18.1", W 73º 13' 56.4" "La Primavera ha venido. Nadie sabe como ha sido" (A. Machado) ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Inviting questions from SPI
Tim Post wrote: > Do you feel resources should be put into finding new and promising > projects prior to 'chicken hawkers' approaching? > > How do we lure developers from closing off with "as a service" products > that can be offered free but aren't F/LOSS which seems to be the candy > the 'chicken hawkers' have to offer? For those of us not in the know, could you clarify what a "chicken hawker" is? In Wikipedia I find two definitions (one related to homosexuality and the other to war stance in a politician), neither of which seem to make any sense in this context. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC "No necesitamos banderas No reconocemos fronteras" (Jorge González) ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Copyright issues re Debian website
Bruce Perens wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Aren't most laws absurd? > It depends on how severe your spectrum disorder is. And on your jurisdiction. -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre "Estoy de acuerdo contigo en que la verdad absoluta no existe... El problema es que la mentira sí existe y tu estás mintiendo" (G. Lama) ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Meeting log for 2008-12-17
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:27 +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake writes ("Re: Meeting log for 2008-12-17"):
> > > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:13 +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > > For other kinds of resolutions there are of course other isomorphic
> > > > problems. That is why THE MEMBERSHIP MUST BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO
> > > > COMMENT!
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it make sense to make this argument on -private, where the
> > > contributing members are?
> >
> > No, because discussions should be in public if there is no reason for
> > them to be private. We had already agreed that, surely ? I can't
> > seem to find a resolution about it right now.
> >
>
> I recall a motion that said we should discuss on private (I could be off
> my rocker) but the thing is... the *only* people that can do anything
> about what you are arguing is contributing members. E.g; they are the
> ones that can vote. So -general may consider this noise.
>
> I don't know honestly but what I do know is that there are many
> contributing members that do not bother to read let alone subscribe to
> -general.
It's easy to paint the bikeshed of what list to give notice to. It
would be a lot better to have an answer to the actual gripe:
> > > > For other kinds of resolutions there are of course other isomorphic
> > > > problems. That is why THE MEMBERSHIP MUST BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO
> > > > COMMENT!
Any thoughts on that?
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Re: Member communications II
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > With all due respect this seems like a motion for the sake of having a > motion. It is a motion for the sake of the board's recent failures to fulfill member's expectations, I think. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/ "La virtud es el justo medio entre dos defectos" (Aristóteles) ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Multi-winner Condorcet, vs STV
Ian Jackson wrote:
> Markus Schulze writes ("Re: Multi-winner Condorcet, vs STV"):
> > in my opinion, the Schulze STV method is
> > the best multi-winner election method:
>
> Thanks for pointing us to that. Interesting reading.
>
> I wouldn't support such a thing for a public governmental election,
> because of the need for computer involvement. Public elections should
> be done with simple and readily verifiable processes - ie, pencil and
> paper.
This is nonsense. As far as I can tell, in the method Markus proposes
ballots can be cast with just pencil and paper -- which is the important
part on which pencil and paper should be used. The result counting part
is going to involve computers *anyway*, but since the input data (filled
ballots) is available and verifiable, this is not a problem because
different parties can have their own software.
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Re: Google Gift
Hilmar Lapp wrote: > Awesome! -hilmar Right. So instead of 37,510.86 we don't currently use for anything, there are now 47,510.86 in the bank we are not likely to use for anything either. Or did I misunderstand? > On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > Google's Open Source Office has sent us a completely unsolicited > > donation of $10,000 for the SPI General Fund. Thank you, Google! -- ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Google Gift
Josh Berkus wrote: > On 11/12/12 12:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Hilmar Lapp wrote: > >> Awesome! -hilmar > > > > Right. So instead of 37,510.86 we don't currently use for anything, > > there are now 47,510.86 in the bank we are not likely to use for > > anything either. Or did I misunderstand? > > We have plans to use it for clerical/bookkeeping help, actually. Oh, okay, that's great then. -- ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Removal of MadWifi as an associated project
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Cock [2017-08-14 10:49]: > > Should some of the funds be kept back for future domain renewal > > fees, or are those covered from the ongoing SPI income? > > It's not very obvious but that's why I put the renewal of the domain > before the transfer of the funds, i.e. we'd renew the domain and pay > (if needed [*]) and then transfer the remaining funds. Surely SPI needs to renew the domain on an ongoing basis -- basically forever -- not just one time. It seems like there ought the be clauses somewhere specifying that SPI should continue to do this, or that MadWifi has the authority to tell SPI to do so. (How? they'd not be an associated project anymore.) What if eventually MadWifi as a project decides to get the domain back for whatever reason? Is it possible for SPI to decide to give it back? I think holding onto the domain is a complicated business. -- Álvaro Herrera ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
Re: Debian trademark, EAN, proposed letter, SPI heads-up
Ian Jackson wrote: > That's right. For your convenience my mail > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:53:34 +0100 > quoted the thing again. > There's one bugfix: "the the" should read "the". No bugfix for "anticpate" or "predjudice"? (I also wonder about "Nor do ... do so on Debian's behalf". Looks odd to me, but then I'm not a native English speaker; maybe it's just my ignorance.) -- Álvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
