Re: DebConf14 venue decision

2013-04-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I just want to clarify for everyone -- Portland, Oregon (OR), since $> dict portland | grep 'U.S. city' | nl 1Portland, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas 2Portland, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota 3Portland, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon 4Portland, IN -- U.S. city in Ind

DebConf14 venue decision

2013-04-05 Thread Moray Allan
Today the DebConf team held the DebConf14 venue decision meeting, following our standard process https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Bid_process A decision was reached that DebConf14 will take place in Portland, USA. Thank you to the USA and Venezuelan bid teams for their work, and to everyone who h

Aw: Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello,       Gesendet: Freitag, 05. April 2013 um 09:45 Uhr Von: "Andreas Tille" An: debian-project@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-wo...@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women Hi, On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:52:18PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >

Re: A Debian contributor StackOverflow

2013-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:04:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I wonder if just using the same forum is a good idea, or if it would be > better to create a separate contributor-focused platform. One thing I find attractive about using the platform for both is to perhaps help encourage/promote the

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:45:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I do not have trouble personally in spending the money on OPW but I > would also see a similarly fair use of the GSoC org money to keep on > sponsoring DebConf newbees and explicitly prefer women who apply for > the support. FWIW, th

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:52:18PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > OK from my reading of > https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#For_Organizations_and_Companies > it seems that Debian can be a participating "project", without also > being a financial sponsor. IE: We provide mentors and he

Re: A Debian contributor StackOverflow

2013-04-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:18:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Shapado software seems a little bit clunky (the formatting is weird in > Iceweasel, it won't let me save a photo in the profile, and every edit to > the profile apparently requires changing my password, which is weird). > But the b