Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > On the other hand, a single social committee provides for a body which will > be by and large neutral towards all lists (it will apply the same reasoning > towards all). ... if the committee isn't too big. I don't expect "early warnings" to be approved by

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:12:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:54:51PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten > > years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in > > celebrating this a bit

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:12:51 -0700 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:54:51PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's > > ten years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in > > celebrat

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:54:51PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten > years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in > celebrating this a bit? What would be an appropriate way? By spending the day arguing about w

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Mike Bird
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 15:33, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > After a decision is made I think it's less problematic to make the > discussion available to all DDs. But still there is the problem, that > offending behaviour would be exposed to all DDs. The committee's deliberations should be solely base

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I think that the internal discussions should be kept private to the > soc-ctte at least as long as no decision is made. As decisions made > by the comitee will probably quite often involve social behaviour of > DDs I think it's problematic if all DDs c

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:19:46AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > The biggest decisions need to be publicly documented however. I don't > > think we've clearly drawn the line here. I'm also unsure if it's important > > to have a c

Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in celebrating this a bit? What would be an appropriate way? -- Policy is your friend. Trust the Policy. Love the Policy. Obey the Policy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sure, there is hopefully no problem to find a replacement. My point was >> that we should explicitely name those positions who should not be a member >> of the soc-ctte. > > Okay. > > Interestingly enough, we don't have similar provisions in the constitut

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:48:51AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > I feel we're really missing most sorely list-admin teams who will take > care of the social fabric of one list each and are empowered to make > limited short-term changes to preserve it, including updating the list > info pages and small pos

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:44:28AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > even if I'm not perfectly decided whether it might be just practical > because I doubt that there will be enough cronies in the group of > volunteers. Like with the cabal - it's not a matter of if they will be there, but a matter of

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: >On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:19:46AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > * The communication of soc-ctte members with people about their >> > behaviour which might eventually become a matter of committee >> > deliberation should b

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:19:46AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * The communication of soc-ctte members with people about their > > behaviour which might eventually become a matter of committee > > deliberation should be kept reasonably private, to prevent > > unnecessary escalat

Re: debian/linux per ipovedenti - non vedenti

2007-06-26 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
debian-project: He is asking for information regarding Debian accessibility for the visually impaired, and I'm sending him to debian-italian. Em Ter, 2007-06-26 às 16:29 +0200, Claudio Gianelle escreveu: > Vorrei sapere se esiste una versione linux per ipovedenti e non > vedenti.Grazie. Purtroppo

debian/linux per ipovedenti - non vedenti

2007-06-26 Thread Claudio Gianelle
Vorrei sapere se esiste una versione linux per ipovedenti e non vedenti.Grazie.

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > > If it's all voting-derived, how can we assure there will be any > > debian-minority views represented on soc-ctte at any time? > > What exact minority do you have in mind? No particular one, but including: racial or

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the difference between 'a list admin' and 'a small list admin > team' in this situation? Nothing, really, I just believe in teams in volunteer work, because then it's more likely that somebody in the team has the time and the energy to do what's nee

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:02:53PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I feel we're really missing most sorely list-admin teams who will take > > care of the social fabric of one list each and are empowered to make > > limited short-term changes to preserve it, incl

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I feel we're really missing most sorely list-admin teams who will take > care of the social fabric of one list each and are empowered to make > limited short-term changes to preserve it, including updating the list > info pages and small posting bans. We should

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, MJ Ray wrote: If it's all voting-derived, how can we assure there will be any debian-minority views represented on soc-ctte at any time? What exact minority do you have in mind? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I was happy to note that there wasn't really any discussion as to whether > there should be such a thing - the implicit consensus was that we do need > something, it's just that we need to figure out exactly what and how. Something is needed, but I'm

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: I have an issue with the leader deciding on the composition of the committee, in general. I think it could easily create the impression that they are his cronies, and we have to avoid that. You are right here - I just wanted to enhance the suggestion abo

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:15:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > * Someone proposed that the leader makes the initial list of members which > > would then be voted upon, not sure; I would maintain my position that > > people should be nominating themselves, rather than the leader naming > >

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, (you could have started a new thread :-)) On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > * The initial social committee will have to combine two aspects - one is > the need to have a body that would judge on disputes (this would be the > committee as such), and the other is the need to h

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: Ian said he'll send over his notes, but I'm impatient so I'll have a go :) Thanks for your impatience. :) The issues that were touched included: I found quite similar things in my private log - hoping to review the recording later to sort out missing