Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]

2009-03-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> If someone can't set up a poll, I'll send another message asking for > >> DDs to privately mail me (or maybe me-too to -vote) if they find the > >> debates useful. > > http://doodle.com/nmpesn9t5fwv6ewe > > Having this run for 7 days now, we had 72 pa

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Brian May
MJ Ray wrote: > That treads on the singular "they" landmine. Also, it sounds like > it's the Debian Developer's validity in question. > > How about "Debian Developers may nominate themselves by sending a > signed email to debian-vote@lists.debian.org"? > How about: "To be valid, a Debian Devel

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:39:46PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >l...@liw.fi wrote: > >>While I agree with Ben, perhaps we could retire this, the 12765th >>iteration of this discussion, in favor of having a discussion about >>platforms and some Q&A with the candidates? >Maybe this is a good time to a

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:39:46PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Maybe this is a good time to ask the candidates what is their position > wrt this PC bullshit. > So candidates, what do you think about this? [ Just assuming this was a serious question, otherwise shame on me for keeping this thread

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
l...@liw.fi wrote: >While I agree with Ben, perhaps we could retire this, the 12765th >iteration of this discussion, in favor of having a discussion about >platforms and some Q&A with the candidates? Maybe this is a good time to ask the candidates what is their position wrt this PC bullshit. So ca

Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]

2009-03-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> If someone can't set up a poll, I'll send another message asking for >> DDs to privately mail me (or maybe me-too to -vote) if they find the >> debates useful. > http://doodle.com/nmpesn9t5fwv6ewe Having this run for 7 days now, we had 72 participants. The question asked was "Are the Debian D

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2009-03-09 kello 19:37 +1100, Ben Finney kirjoitti: > Matthew Johnson writes: > > > How about accepting that "he" is the gender-neutral pronoun in > > English? > > Because that's not true; “he” is a male-gender pronoun. While I agree with Ben, perhaps we could retire this, the 12765th iter

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Ben Finney
Matthew Johnson writes: > How about accepting that "he" is the gender-neutral pronoun in > English? Because that's not true; “he” is a male-gender pronoun. The pronoun “he” is sometimes awkwardly and explicitly defined for gender-neutral use in specific cases, but it's never the case that “he” i

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun Mar 08 23:40, MJ Ray wrote: > > How about "Shepherds Bush (Central line)"? > How about accepting that "he" is the gender-neutral pronoun in English? -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009

2009-03-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:19:27PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx - Debian Project Secretary wrote: > Hi, > > The nomination period has ended and we're now in the campaigning > period. We have 2 candidates: > > - Stefano Zacchiroli > - Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> > > The page at http://www.debian.o