Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 23:53 +, MJ Ray wrote: > Many countries still sometimes have > heads of state and government from opposing political views (French > "cohabitation") and it puts the brakes on the more radical reforms, > but the fifth republic (for example) hasn't fallen yet. President and

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DDs, if you were DPL_n, would you be willing to moderate your changes > if an opposing DPL_n+1 was elected? It would depends of what reasons DPL_n+1 give for it. Personally I do think that this would be a nice thing since would allow two persons to boost the

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread MJ Ray
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon February 25 2008 2:29:27 pm Ingo Juergensmann wrote: [...] > > how about keeping yearly elections and introduce a 2 year period of the > > DPL in that way, that the new elected DPL is second in charge (2IC) [...] > > From a pure human nature standpoi

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Tollef Fog Heen: > Maybe not, but plushy toys is something I feel this project is > seriously lacking in. I don't know how well a plushy swirl would > work. It would probably look a bit like a turd, especially if the color is somewhat off. So not such a good idea, I guess. Pillows might work

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon February 25 2008 2:29:27 pm Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:01:31PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ma, 2008-02-25 at 10:31 -0500, David Moreno wrote: > > > IMHO, the DPL position should have less showcase and more time to get > > > some real work done during time (

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:01:31PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On ma, 2008-02-25 at 10:31 -0500, David Moreno wrote: >> > IMHO, the DPL position should have less showcase and more time to get >> > some real work done during time (say, two years,

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:01:31PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ma, 2008-02-25 at 10:31 -0500, David Moreno wrote: > > IMHO, the DPL position should have less showcase and more time to get > > some real work done during time (say, two years, since the free > > software and the technology world

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2008-02-25 at 10:31 -0500, David Moreno wrote: > IMHO, the DPL position should have less showcase and more time to get > some real work done during time (say, two years, since the free > software and the technology world changes drastically in short periods > of time). We already discussed

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > [1]OpenPuppets made a [2]"genie" for us. :-) > > 1. http://www.openpuppets.com/ > 2. http://www.openpuppets.com/fondos/8c.png I for one enjoy the openpuppets logo's line of thought, though not this particular rendition of it. Cheers -- Leo "coste

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 25/02/2008, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > This time we did. And he's not running again! :-( But HE is running. :) -- Cyril Brulebois pgp4HfEX8qM3P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread David Moreno
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably, yes, if we finally elect a DPL who will not fall silent > after three months in his term. That's what everybody sees, but no one knows for real, except for the DPL himself and cabal^Wpeople around him. The way I

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Marc Haber dijo [Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:29PM +0100]: > > > Being DPL does have an impact on your real life. If you are still > > > wondering whether to run, or have any personal questions, feel free to > > > ask me, I'll gladly share my experience. > > > > > > I'm still wondering if Debian

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:16:27AM -0500, David Moreno wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DPL elections > > - > > > > The new DPL term is in almost 2 months, but campaign starts next > > month [4]. I have already stated that I would no

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.25.1521 +0100]: >By the way: http://zoy.org/~sam/bisountu.jpeg Why are we Mr. Pink? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduc

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-02-2008 15:49, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: >>I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to >> the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > >At the various conferences I attended I have paid much attention to > > how other distributions and FOSS projects were promoting their work, and > > despite us often having t-shirts, stickers and posters like the others, > > we really miss a few t

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread David Moreno
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DPL elections > - > > The new DPL term is in almost 2 months, but campaign starts next > month [4]. I have already stated that I would not run again, and haven't > changed my mind. As many, many Debian develope

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * martin f krafft > > | also sprach Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: > | >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > | > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2008, 13:16 +0100 schrieb Sam Hocevar: > Marketing team > -- > >At the various conferences I attended I have paid much attention to > how other distributions and FOSS projects were promoting their work, and > despite us often having t-shirts, stickers and post

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:19:41AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Maybe not, but plushy toys is something I feel this project is > > seriously lacking in. > > seconded \o/ Full ack from me as well. A logo is something rather plain, and ours is not particularly "sexy" (though cool and rather

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:16:06AM +, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * martin f krafft > > | also sprach Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: > | >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > | > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly m

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* martin f krafft | also sprach Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: | >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to | > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian | > project (in a similar way to the Linux penguin or

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread nic
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:16:28 +0100 Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to set up a Debian Marketing Team, whose work would > be to organise all the promotional stuff (logos, t-shirt designs, > wallpapers, etc.) so that the project can officially endorse good > designs, and