Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-02 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 2015-12-02 02:35, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Indeed. And instead of simply adding blog posts, the project may make an official public statement about it. The publicity team and associated folks posted these when the campaign began. https://ident

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:58:07PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:52:35PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > >We already pay for those services. There is a forfait amount of money that > > >Debian pays to Conservancy per year (1000 USD, IIRC), which corresponds to > > >a fo

The moral character of cryptographic work

2015-12-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Phillip Rogaway, a leading cryptographer, has written this excellent essay, which I think many of us will be interested in: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf Part 1 is very relevant and an excellent piece on the ethics of technology (and technologists) in general. Parts 2-3

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
(re-sent without attachment) On 01/12/15 15:36, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:17:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Let's give them a part of our money for the service they do us by >> enforcing the GPL for Debian developers. > > We already pay for those services. Ther

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-02 Thread Riley Baird
On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:27:36 +0100 Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 01/12/15 15:17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Dec 2015, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Could Debian as a project sign up ? Conservancy is a 503(c), like > >> SPI, so perhaps we in Debian could commit a modest regular funding > >

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 01/12/15 15:17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 01 Dec 2015, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Could Debian as a project sign up ? Conservancy is a 503(c), like >> SPI, so perhaps we in Debian could commit a modest regular funding >> stream to Conservancy. > > +1 > > We have troubles finding good use

[vac] emails using iCalendar?

2015-12-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
I'm wondering if [vac] emails could be semi-automated, maybe some combination of the following: - people who already publish a public iCalendar file over HTTP could add a link to it in Debian LDAP. Other public systems could eventually use it. - people who maintain a private iCalendar file cou