Aníbal Monsalve Salazar writes:
> At [0] AJ wrote that Martin Michlmayr spoke to Linux Australia about it
> holding money/donations for Debian. So, potentially, LA may/will have
> Debian money.
Thanks, this was news to me - and shows that I should have posted the
list already in 2006...
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:36:41AM +, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
>The list of organizations I'm aware of having Debian monies is:
>
>Associação SoftwareLivre.org (Brazil)
>Associazione Software Libero (Italy)
>Debian UK
>Debian Switzerland
>Linux-Aktivaattori (Finland)
>SPI
>Verein zur Förderung Frei
Kalle Kivimaa writes:
> I don't think it is too much of a burden for a Debian volunteer to send
> out quarterly or even monthly emails and then collate the answers. But
> it might be a burden to the trustee organizations. But the only way to
> find out is to ask, of course :)
Forgot to add: track
Stefano Zacchiroli writes:
> As I wrote before, one thing is a desiderata, one thing is what you can
> get given the available work forces. Given that you've just stepped
> back from the position (which, honestly, I forgot we had), the first
> obvious step is now finding a new volunteer for the p
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> [ You've just won my prize for the most unexpected -vote question. ]
Thanks, I think :)
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:17:06AM +0700, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Please breifly comment on how you see Debian's relationship with some
>> of these
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Margarita Manterola
wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Please breifly comment on how you see Debian's relationship with some
>> of these media.
>
> I'm not sure of what's being asked here. Which of the mentioned media
> are "these medi
Le Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:35:28AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit :
> Hello =)
>
> Please finish "In ten years I'd like Debian"
Dear Dmitrijs,
In ten years I'd like Debian to be mainstream. Our biggest competitor is not
the proprietary operating systems anymore, it is all the closed-source
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:59:18PM +, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> It isn't that difficult, the only thing that needs to happen is for the
> Debian Auditor to do his/her job regularily. Of course, if we want eg.
> quarterly reports, then it might add additional burden on the various
> treasureres of
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:35:28AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Please finish "In ten years I'd like Debian"
I'd like Debian to be *THE* renowned distribution in terms of:
- freeness (a distro which is free the bottom up, not only in the
software it ships, but also in the infrastructure
[ You've just won my prize for the most unexpected -vote question. ]
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:17:06AM +0700, Paul Wise wrote:
> Which project and external Debian-related communications media do you
> follow? and contribute to? As well as a general list I'm interested in
> specific lists (for eg
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:16:41AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> How, how often, and when do you intend to communicate with the project?
>
> In the past there have been "Bits from the DPL" emails which have been nice,
> but during the last couple of years there have also been some press
> int
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is
> acceptable for the Debian project? What would you do to reduce those?
Acceptable? No. Normal? To some extent, yes.
Debian has a history of inflammable mailing lis
This is for all candidates.
Releasing is regularly the hardest thing that Debian does, not just
technically but also socially. Apart from the standard issues of setting
deadlines, RC bug counts being high, and similar difficult technical
issues, the process seems to eat volunteers. There's usual
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> How, how often, and when do you intend to communicate with the project?
> (please continue reading to understand the context)
>
> In the past there have been "Bits from the DPL" emails which have been nice,
> but during the last couple of
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Paul Wise wrote:
> Debian has a lot of project communications media; lists, forums, IRC,
> planet, bts, RT. There are also a lot of external communications media
> covering Debian; news media, , social networks, blogs, microblogging
> sites & non-IRC c
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> Which project and external Debian-related communications media do you
> follow? and contribute to? As well as a general list I'm interested in
> specific lists (for eg #debian, #debian-devel, debian-de...@l.d.o,
> debian-proj...@l.d.o, the Hard
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
wrote:
> Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is
> acceptable for the Debian project?
Even though the mailing lists climate is much better than what it was
5 years ago, I think that it still sometimes gets too aggressive,
In Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
wrote:
> Please finish "In ten years I'd like Debian"
In ten years I'd like Debian to still be thriving as the Universal OS.
Things will obviously have changed. But, if we look back to 1993 when
Debian started, a lot of things were differen
Stefano Zacchiroli writes:
> or not. Note that achieving that is not necessarily easy: it probably
> involves more work on the shoulders of various treasurers and we should
> be ready to help out with that, if it is a blocker.
It isn't that difficult, the only thing that needs to happen is for t
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on?
I believe the driving principle should be to use money as much as
possible to keep the project running at its best, while keeping an
emergency reserve (e.g. to be sure
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:39:27AM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote:
> But all that aside, GSoC still gets some "flames" on Debian lists; see
> the thread on -devel from about this time last year, eg:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00424.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:04:37PM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Some DDs are able to pursue specific Debian projects due to bounties
> > they put on the projects (both AJ and Raphael have similar initiatives
> > on their homepages, even
Hi Julien,
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Compare "Random Joe Developer is soliciting funding for his debian work"
> vs "Debian is soliciting funding for Random Joe Developer's debian
> work". The former is fine IMO, has no risk of being seen as a "Debian"
> thing, and can be done w
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