Short tribute video in honor of Ian Murdock in FOSDEM

2016-01-16 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear all We, the Debian Publicity team, are trying to prepare a short tribute video in honour of Ian Murdock to be screened at FOSDEM[1] (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting), that will take place in Brusels next January 30-31

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hello, I don't know what is this characterization for, but I don't like it very much. Indeed, it would make more difficult to explain, as I do with Hypra or free software promotion organizations, that Debian is the best solution for a universally accessible operating system (and I'm sure it is). M

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/15/16 10:48 PM, Stephan Foley wrote: Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following: Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server market Is this a good characterization or am I off base? Thanks Used to be. These days, in the wake of systemd, at leas

Re: Short tribute video in honor of Ian Murdock in FOSDEM

2016-01-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Laura, On Samstag, 16. Januar 2016, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > We, the Debian Publicity team, are trying to prepare a short tribute > video in honour of Ian Murdock to be screened at FOSDEM[1] awesome! where+when exactly do you plan to show it there? FOSDEM is huuuge. Did you contact the or

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/01/2016 1:29 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > On 1/15/16 10:48 PM, Stephan Foley wrote: >> Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following: >> >> Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server >> market >> >> Is t

Re: Short tribute video in honor of Ian Murdock in FOSDEM

2016-01-16 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/01/16 16:38, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Laura, > > On Samstag, 16. Januar 2016, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: >> We, the Debian Publicity team, are trying to prepare a short >> tribute video in honour of Ian Murdock to be screened at >> FOSDEM[1]

Re: Short tribute video in honor of Ian Murdock in FOSDEM

2016-01-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Samstag, 16. Januar 2016, Daniel Pocock wrote: > The FOSDEM organizers have been very kind and proactive in this, I saw > some emails that went around about it already. If you have access to > Pentabarf, you may see an unconfirmed event with Debian in the title, > it looks like they have reserv

Re: Short tribute video in honor of Ian Murdock in FOSDEM

2016-01-16 Thread Amaya
Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Valessio Brito and yours truly have offered time to prepare it. I have given Ana mine, but please also look into these: https://joeyh.name/pics/debconf/4/afp.jpg Make sure to choose the bigger size for these, hosted at debconf.org They belong to Debconf4 (Portoalegre,

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread Stephan Foley
> [Miles Fidelman] >> Used to be. These days, in the wake of systemd, at least this sys >> admin will never install it again. The reasons are technical. [Andrew McGlashan] > Yes, it is certainly limiting my view of Debian to be one that is now > broken and definitely not what Ian Murdock envisio

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread Stephan Foley
[Teemu Likonen] > You have the old stereotype of Debian. The reality is different: the > default Debian desktop install gives you a normal easy-to-use end-user > operating system and applications. This has been the case for a long > time but many people still maintain old stereotypes. > > Of cours

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread Stephan Foley
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:20 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > The main difference between Debian and Ubuntu is that the installer is > less friendly-user, and the firmware are not loaded by default. But I > think Debian is really the Universal Operating System. And it's the > characterization I

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-16 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 17/01/2016 00:31, Stephan Foley a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:20 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe > wrote: > >> The main difference between Debian and Ubuntu is that the installer is >> less friendly-user, and the firmware are not loaded by default. But I >> think Debian is really the Univer