Re: Sponsoring Ukranian i18n work

2022-04-09 Thread Steffen Möller
I suggest you just contact your local city council if you can hang up a job advert where they register as refugees. That said, maybe you find some sponsors for some IT training and the refurbishing of some spare laptops ... hm .. saying that .. I should possibly make a move myself. On 09.04.22 11

Re: Sponsoring the Debian Community/Project

2021-03-04 Thread David Dubrino
Thank you Louis-Philippe, I will talk it over with our CEO and see what we can do. Best, David Das Keyboard - The Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard Ultimate Typing Championship

Re: Sponsoring the Debian Community/Project

2021-03-04 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 2021-03-04 12 h 02, Felix Lechner wrote: > 3. Donate equipment, services or money to the project. [1] Also note that some organisations choose to give back by giving Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers certain benefits: https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Loui

Re: Sponsoring the Debian Community/Project

2021-03-04 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi David, On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 8:04 AM David Dubrino wrote: > > any way that Das Keyboard could help the Debian Project Thanks for writing! As a group of dedicated volunteers, we rely heavily on generous goodwill from people like yourself. There are many ways to help Debian. You could: 1. Rel

Sponsoring the Debian Community/Project

2021-03-04 Thread David Dubrino
Hello there, I wanted to reach out to see if you had any way that Das Keyboard could help the Debian Project, either by sponsoring the project or your community? Let me know! Thanks, David Das Keyboard <https://www.daskeyboard.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=signature&utm_cam

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-06-02 Thread intrigeri
Hi, [Dropping -project@ to Cc, most follow-ups should probably go to -derivatives@ instead.] Jonathan Dowland wrote (14 May 2014 15:19:42 GMT) : > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 01:27:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The website has a very admirable statement about minimizing the delta with >> Debia

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 01:27:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Nothing says a pure blend couldn't have its own public identity, and if they > were a pure blend, I would have no concern about the expenditure. But since > it's a derivative rather than a pure blend, how do we know that in /this/ >

Re: Tails/Debian delta [Was: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?]

2014-05-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:30:22AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: >Hi, > >[Moving this discussion to the -derivatives@ list, which seems more >relevant for this subthread. Not sure if it's worth going on >Cc'ing -project@.] > >Paul Wise wrote (09 May 2014 01:12:23 GMT) : > >> it could be useful to both De

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-09 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
and finally we check their report and are happy that so much good work was done :) While I agree that there is no absolute guarantee when sponsoring an event (of any sort), I'm not sure you can make that comparision because, IMHO, sponsoring a Debian event or a group of Debian members is d

Tails/Debian delta [Was: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?]

2014-05-09 Thread intrigeri
Hi, [Moving this discussion to the -derivatives@ list, which seems more relevant for this subthread. Not sure if it's worth going on Cc'ing -project@.] Paul Wise wrote (09 May 2014 01:12:23 GMT) : > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:01 PM, intrigeri wrote: >> 1. Six packages for Tails-specific software

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:01 PM, intrigeri wrote: > 1. Six packages for Tails-specific software (liveusb-creator, If you mean the Fedorahosted liveusb-creator, that looks useful to have in Debian for non-technical users. If upstream could be made build-time flexible about distros, it could be use

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek wrote (04 May 2014 08:27:44 GMT) : > But since it's a derivative rather than a pure blend, how do we know > that in /this/ case, the work at the sprint is going to > benefit Debian? With my Debian developer hat on, I thank you very much for asking this key question. Actu

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Ian, Quoting Ian Jackson (2014-05-06 15:05:38) > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?"): >> Quoting Holger Levsen (2014-05-05 12:24:41) >>> Debian Edu sid is 100% Debian. > ... >> Does that mean bug#311188 is fixed? Or have things cha

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?"): > Quoting Holger Levsen (2014-05-05 12:24:41) > > Debian Edu sid is 100% Debian. ... > Does that mean bug#311188 is fixed? Or have things changed since your > decision to lower that bugreport? I don't

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Holger Levsen (2014-05-05 12:24:41) > Debian Edu sid is 100% Debian. That's great news! Congratulations! Does that mean bug#311188 is fixed? Or have things changed since your decision to lower that bugreport? Holger, : > [.

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 5. Mai 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > The sprint I mentioned was in June 2011 and was apparently for > releasing the DebianEdu based on Debian squeeze. At that time there > were less DebianEdu things in Debian than there are now. right, (also) thanks to the sprint, Debian Edu squeeze was

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > while some zealous purist still believe Debian Edu ain't a pure blend The sprint I mentioned was in June 2011 and was apparently for releasing the DebianEdu based on Debian squeeze. At that time there were less DebianEdu things in Debian than

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 5. Mai 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > Indeed, definitely not the first time events for non-pure Debian > Blends have been sponsored by Debian, I can see DebianEdu and Emdebian while some zealous purist still believe Debian Edu ain't a pure blend, I disagree and have facts to prove it:

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > In 2011, I asked the former DPL for sponsoring a 2 months trip to India > with the purpose of giving talks and participating in local sessions > about FreedomBox - also a non-pure Debian Blend. Indeed, definitely not the first ti

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
the work at the sprint is going to > benefit Debian? The website has a very admirable statement about > minimizing the delta with Debian, but is the size of this delta > published and tracked anywhere? I've thought similar to you, Steve, but support the sponsorship: Tails is a (non-p

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Lucas, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:43:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The Tails project is a Debian-based live system focusing on privacy and > anonymity. For more information about Tails and their relationship with > Debian, see: > https://tails.boum.org/ > https://wiki.debian.org/Derivati

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Huge +1. Wow. Really positive thread. We need more of these. T On May 3, 2014 5:56 AM, "Stefano Zacchiroli" wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:43:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Given that: > [snip] > > I am planning to allocate 5000 EUR. > > Comments? > > +1 > > In addition to the good r

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:43:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Given that: [snip] > I am planning to allocate 5000 EUR. > Comments? +1 In addition to the good reasons above, I'd also like to add that Tails is also being *exemplar* in how to be a good derivative citizen, see for example: htt

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I am planning to allocate 5000 EUR. > Comments? Tails FTW. +1. -- Kartik Mistry | IRC: kart_ {0x1f1f, kartikm}.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sat, 03 May 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I am planning to allocate 5000 EUR. Totally agreed upon! Norbert PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:43:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > The Tails project is a Debian-based live system focusing on privacy and > anonymity. For more information about Tails and their relationship with > Debian, see: > https://tails.boum.org/ > https://wiki.debian.org/Deriva

Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, The Tails project is a Debian-based live system focusing on privacy and anonymity. For more information about Tails and their relationship with Debian, see: https://tails.boum.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Tails https://tails.boum.org/contribute/relationship_with_upstream/ ht

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-13 Thread Janos Guljas
Hello, I would like to confirm that I am still interested in dedicating some of my time to write code for debexpo. Serafeim, thanks for CC-ing me. I am on debian-mentors list already. I will look at the code, and probably have some questions. Idea of developing metrics plugin for collecting stati

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Serafeim, (keeping your CCs:) On 11.09.2011 23:56, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > I understand that there's two sides in this effort: debexpo plugins that > produce additional info about certain package features, and a repository of > sponsors' inter

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
David Bremner wrote [edited]: > Sponsor guidelines and tracking > --- > > Up to now, sponsor metrics do not exist yet. For now we rely on static > lists, giving people hints whom they shall ask for sponsoring if the > general RFS procedure on debian-

Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread David Bremner
of sponsoring packages, which is to get new software (typically that the sponsors themselves consider useful or interesting) into Debian. Similarly sponsors upload packages which have been orphaned by the former maintainer. Debian has several teams, at least some of which are highly effective at

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
new contributor a fixed mentor, e.g. similar to the > application managers for NM. In the later case no obvious answer was > found. Maybe a sponsor should not consider sponsoring a package, if he's > conceivable short of time or unwilling to sponsor successive uploads. > This is

Sponsoring request to attend Mini DebConf India in Mengaluru (October 2011)

2011-08-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
zation activity (maybe a sprint for DDTP in the local language, namely Kannada). Whatever the final schedule is, I will write a detailed report about these activities, how they were received, etc. In order to get better travel fares (and, admitedly, to do some sightseeing as well!), I plan to leav

Re: Debian Project sponsoring

2009-04-28 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:14:48PM +0200, Kevin Schmitt wrote: > Does the Debian Project sponsor other projects for a return? no, Debian is not interested in such things, sorry. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Debian Project sponsoring

2009-04-28 Thread Kevin Schmitt
Hello, I got a question. Does the Debian Project sponsor other projects for a return? Because me and my team started a free webhosting service (www.62net.de) and we search for official server sponsors. We allready had 2 vServer, but the harddrive is too small and our budget too. We can give you

Sponsoring

2007-02-14 Thread Alen Savic
Debian.org #REVO.gaming Alen »kobrzZz« Savic Dear Mr. or Mrs., How would it be, to become a sponsor of successful team (clan) of players playing a computer game called CALL OF DUTY? We are a group of 9 players, and we are playing for a multi-gaming clan, named #REVO.gaming. This clan is 3 yea

Re: Anfrage für Clan Sponsoring! www.quando-gaming.de

2006-02-16 Thread Florian Weimer
[He's asking if we might sponsor his computer gaming site.] > Ich wollte Sie fragen ob Sie gerne unseren Clan Sponsern würden? Nein, Debian hat völlig andere Schwerpunkte. Tut mir leid.

Anfrage für Clan Sponsoring! www.quando-gaming.de

2006-02-16 Thread Spyder2
Hallo, Ich wollte Sie fragen ob Sie gerne unseren Clan Sponsern würden? Unser Clan gehört zu den besten 250 Deutschlands, ist in der ESL tätig, hat um die 200-300 Besucher pro Tag was sich aber bald ändern wird ( werden also mehr sein ) und hat Spieler/Teams die in verschiedenen Spielen tätig sin

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-08 12:13:43, schrieb Santiago Vila: > Actually, the BTS and the lists are handled very differently. > The crap is usually removed from the BTS as soon as it's detected. > I wish we did the same for the lists archives. I am subscribed to more then 70 Mailinglists since 2000 and gotten m

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Chris Waters wrote: > The Debian project itself provides advertising opportunities through > its mailing lists and bug tracking system, though, so one could argue > that there is ample precedent. :) Actually, the BTS and the lists are handled very differently. The crap is usua

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:20:43PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > It seems that Debian has chosen to provide space (e.g., [0]) where a > number of fine Chinese companies can post links to their websites. [...] > [0]http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?KwikiTodo My understanding is that debian.net address

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-07 Thread Jorgen Schaefer
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 23:10 +0100, Jorgen Schaefer wrote: >> WikiSpam is a known problem [0, 1] and there have been various >> discussions on how to deal with it. You might want to participate >> by helping to remove the spam from the wiki :-) > > I have a

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-07 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 23:10 +0100, Jorgen Schaefer wrote: > WikiSpam is a known problem [0, 1] and there have been various > discussions on how to deal with it. You might want to participate > by helping to remove the spam from the wiki :-) I have already removed spam from hundreds of wiki pages,

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-07 Thread Jorgen Schaefer
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that Debian has chosen to provide space (e.g., [0]) where a > number of fine Chinese companies can post links to their websites. The > RecentChanges page[1] shows that one IP address has modified scores of > pages in the past 24 hours. Is this r

Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-07 Thread Thomas Hood
It seems that Debian has chosen to provide space (e.g., [0]) where a number of fine Chinese companies can post links to their websites. The RecentChanges page[1] shows that one IP address has modified scores of pages in the past 24 hours. Is this really something that Debian should be doing? [0]