Re: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:47:34PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Although Debian blends coincide with the quantization level I foresaw > for Debian sub-projects to be mentioned on the main page, it does not need > to be a blend. E.g. the NeuroDebian -- we contribute to both > DebianScience an

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Although Debian blends coincide with the quantization level I foresaw for Debian sub-projects to be mentioned on the main page, it does not need to be a blend. E.g. the NeuroDebian -- we contribute to both DebianScience and DebianMed, but I think it is worth pointing to NeuroDebian as a separate e

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > 3. In Debian we have a number of great sub-projects which are not properly > > exposed even within Debian itself. I have once suggested to float all > > the blends up to the main Debian page to make it at once look appea

Bug#622274: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: www.debian.org Dear -www team, I hereby forward to the BTS an excerpt of an ongoing discussion on -project, which revamps a former proposal by Yaroslav Halchenko to include links to blends from the Debian homepage. Thanks in advance for considering, Cheers. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I like a lot the idea of providing links to blends from the Debian > homepage [1], thanks for proposing (and revamping) the idea! However, > from the above paragraph I do not understand what you needed to > generalize and why it is blocking the imp

blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > 3. In Debian we have a number of great sub-projects which are not properly > exposed even within Debian itself. I have once suggested to float all > the blends up to the main Debian page to make it at once look appealing > and

Re: Report from Med@Tel / spreading the word about Debian

2011-04-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
merge 20110411134230.gg7...@onerussian.com 1302527634.20...@techforce.com.br thanks > Should we identify ourselves as "foundation like" as Apache (for example)? +1 on relevance although not sure about 'foundation' > Debian Project is like a "multi-front" tech effort, stretching limits of > colle

Re: Report from Med@Tel

2011-04-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
NB taking off other lists, but -project I see few related aspects, where/how we could improve generic awareness about Debian 1. although twittering and other tiny-news networking is useful on its own, I think that we should aim at bigger picture... When do people hear about Debian in general?

Report from Med@Tel / spreading the word about Debian

2011-04-11 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, The Debian Project, as a whole and generally speaking, is still having difficulties to spread the word about the good work done here. The Publicity Team should be informed by the other Teams, for example. The Project is too big to the small team know all things happening. The publicity tea

Re: git-copyright-scan: find authors missing from DEP-5 debian/copyright

2011-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Charles Plessy writes: > if DEP-5 specified the format of Copyright lines, then in many cases it would > not be possible to cut and paste verbatim the upstream notices. Understood. I think we can live with the current situation and maybe later consider adding a recommendation ("SHOULD" and not "M

Re: Report from Med@Tel

2011-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:29:49AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: > regarding Twitter, it is very network related, you register to a feed and > possibly forward to your followers. I am not sure this would finally > "touch/ping" the final user. Either you already know Debian(Med), and this > could

Re: Report from Med@Tel

2011-04-11 Thread Olivier Sallou
Hi, regarding Twitter, it is very network related, you register to a feed and possibly forward to your followers. I am not sure this would finally "touch/ping" the final user. Either you already know Debian(Med), and this could be usefull as simple informational feed, or you don't know it and I