Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10313 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: >> (Yes Joey, I know that you hate the reference to the Sarge, but guess >> how the release on that thing is called? :) ). > I don't mind the reference to Sarge. I do mind a militaristic > design with soldiers. That reminds me much to much of a certain

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10313 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: > > >> (Yes Joey, I know that you hate the reference to the Sarge, but guess > >> how the release on that thing is called? :) ). > > I don't mind the reference to Sarge. I do mind a militaristic > > design with soldiers. That remi

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Its a plastic thing *without* any weapon, guess what Toy Story contains... Yes, a plastic soldier. :) While I do not share the problem Joey has I see no reason to have an image refering to a toy story character on our cover at all. I would regard "Sarge"

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > >Its a plastic thing *without* any weapon, guess what Toy Story > >contains... Yes, a plastic soldier. :) > While I do not share the problem Joey has I see no reason to have > an image refering to a toy story character on our cove

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050608 11:04]: > On 10313 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: > >> (Yes Joey, I know that you hate the reference to the Sarge, but guess > >> how the release on that thing is called? :) ). > > I don't mind the reference to Sarge. I do mind a militaristic > > desi

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Thomas Lange
>> On 10313 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: >> > I don't mind the reference to Sarge. I do mind a militaristic >> > design with soldiers. That reminds me much to much of a certain >> > country invading another for weapons they haven't found a trace >> > of years after. I d

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As long as it's a soldier and properly recognisable I won't like > it and I cannot approve it. Guess what, plastic soldiers represent > real soldiers that kill people and invade other countries for > whatever reason, non-existing weapons, existing oil,

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050608 11:14]: > As long as it's a soldier and properly recognisable I won't like > it and I cannot approve it. Guess what, plastic soldiers represent > real soldiers that kill people and invade other countries for > whatever reason, non-existing weapons, exi

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Mi, 8. Jun 2005, 12:16:37 +0200 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > And I could say, that it's not the > soldiers that kill people and invade other countries, because they are > just tools, which with politicians do such things. I've heard that argument before. So, d

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, June 8, 2005 11:14, Martin Schulze wrote: > As long as it's a soldier and properly recognisable I won't like > it and I cannot approve it. Guess what, plastic soldiers represent real > soldiers that kill people and invade other countries for whatever reason, > non-existing weapons, existin

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, June 8, 2005 11:14, Martin Schulze wrote: > > As long as it's a soldier and properly recognisable I won't like > > it and I cannot approve it. Guess what, plastic soldiers represent real > > soldiers that kill people and invade other countries for whatever reason,

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:01:31PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > >> On 10313 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: > >> > I don't mind the reference to Sarge. I do mind a militaristic > >> > design with soldiers. That reminds me much to much of a certain > >> > country invading anot

[OT] soldiers (was: Organising the booth at LinuxTag)

2005-06-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Jö Fahlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050608 12:31]: > > And I could say, that it's not the soldiers that kill people and > > invade other countries, because they are just tools, which with > > politicians do such things. > I've heard that argument before. So, do soldiers have the same > intellig

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Uhm... I could say, that I was a soldier myself, and that I never killed anyone nor invaded any country. And I could say, that it's not the soldiers that kill people and invade other countries, because they are just tools, which with politicians do s

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, June 8, 2005 13:23, Martin Schulze wrote: >> So soldiers can do both good and evil, see no intrinsic problem with >> them per se. > > You can't get one without the other. It's not realistic to assume that no-one has soldiers. Even if you are peaceful yourself, some evil entity will have le

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Anyway, this argument is not really on topic here, and if it appearently offends some people to have soldiers on the cover, it's not a good choice, even if there are other people who don't mind. If you can appease more people with a different cover, it

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10314 March 1977, Andreas Barth wrote: >> On 10313 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: >> >> (Yes Joey, I know that you hate the reference to the Sarge, but guess >> >> how the release on that thing is called? :) ). >> > I don't mind the reference to Sarge. I do mind a militaristic >> > design w

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I share some of Joey's dislike of the design (thouh I'm usually just too > > reluctant to really discuss about that, as there are things that are far > > more important to me). > > Whatever is decided - decide now please. I just got a deadline for the > cover of tomorrow (

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Meike Reichle
Martin Schulze said/sagte: > At least here's a second proposal from Agnes: > > http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev1.jpg > http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev2.jpg I'd vote for the second (pink) one! -- Meike Reichle - University of Hildesheim mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:28:54PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > I share some of Joey's dislike of the design (thouh I'm usually just too > > > reluctant to really discuss about that, as there are things that are far > > > more important to me). > > Whatever is decided -

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Martin Schulze wrote: http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev1.jpg http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev2.jpg Wow, very stylish! Go for it (color does not matter for me) - two others voted for the pink one - it's fine for me. Kind regards Andr

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:33:01PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Martin Schulze wrote: > > >http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev1.jpg > >http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev2.jpg > Wow, very stylish! Go for it (color does not matter for me) - two > others

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Martin Schulze wrote: > > >http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev1.jpg > >http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev2.jpg > Wow, very stylish! Go for it (color does not matter for me) - two > others voted for the pink one - it's fine for me

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Philipp Kern
On 08.06.2005, at 22:45, Martin Schulze wrote: I prefer these as well. They look much more like real cool artwork (reminds a bit of the ayo posters many people like). I prefer the green proposal over the non-existing blue proposal over the existing ping/magenta proposal. I like them much more

Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:42:47 +0200, Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Martin Schulze said/sagte: >> At least here's a second proposal from Agnes: >> >> http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev1.jpg >> http://www.creative-geeks.de/img/debian_dvdprev2

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Re: Organising the booth at LinuxTag

2005-06-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10314 March 1977, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 08.06.2005, at 22:45, Martin Schulze wrote: >> I prefer these as well. They look much more like real cool artwork >> (reminds a bit of the ayo posters many people like). I prefer the >> green proposal over the non-existing blue proposal over the exis