Debian Project Leader Elections 2012: Call for votes

2012-03-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2012. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Sunday, April 1st, 2012 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constituti

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy writes: > In contrast with what we require for the software we distribute, we are > forbidding to use some of our logos for profit. While there are some clear > differences between software and carriers of visual identity, I feel that > there > is a strong mismatch between what w

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > What is your vision about how many different software pieces can be > supported by Debian as a project for each part of the software stack, > would it be architectures, kernels, init systems, high-level package > managers, desktop environments or something else? I

Re: Raising money for Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > there's a discussion going on on debian-project about entering an > agreement with DuckDuckGo to get some sort of affiliate commission from > the money that DuckDuckGo would earn from traffic tagged as coming > from Debian. > > 1/ To Wouter and Gergely: this discussion t

Re: About debian-companies

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > you might have read that Stefano is trying to organize > discussions/collaboration between companies that have a strategic interest > in Debian: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-companies/ > > Wouter and Gergely, what do you think of this project ? Would you continue > t

Re: About debian-companies

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Stefano, will you continue to try to build that discussion place if you're > not re-elected ? If yes, how do you expect to do it ? (AFAIK you're not a > representative of such a company and as such you will no longer be able to > st

Re: Raising money for Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:26:28PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 2/ To all: are there other ways to raise money that we have not yet > explored and that we should try? At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I haven't felt good at the idea of raising more money up to now, because I don't think we

Re: Question to all candidates: In eight years...

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:27:55PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > this is the echo of a question asked two years ago in the 2010 campaign. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00057.html “In ten^Weight years I'd like Debian...”: - to be backed by a massively diverse community, even