Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-23 Thread M dB
Regardless of what Debian decides to do, https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ is an open letter and you are welcome to sign it. Cheers, M. On 3/23/21 6:56 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware, > last week Richard Stallman was reins

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-23 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Am Mi., 24. März 2021 um 00:22 Uhr schrieb Adam Borowski : > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:56:39PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware, > > last week Richard Stallman was reinstated as part of the Board of > > Directors of

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-23 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 6:57 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Now, as for my question: I thought repeatedly over the last couple of > days whether to start something like this in Debian... But, what would > it take for the project to issue a statement in this line? Would we > have to pass a GR? Without co

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:19:44AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:56:39PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Hello, > > I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware, > > last week Richard Stallman was reinstated as part of the Board of > > Directors of t

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:56:39PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware, > last week Richard Stallman was reinstated as part of the Board of > Directors of the FSF. That is something deeply disturbing and > confidence-shattering

Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello, I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware, last week Richard Stallman was reinstated as part of the Board of Directors of the FSF. That is something deeply disturbing and confidence-shattering for many of us. Some people have moved to action -- if nothing more, at

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:40:32) > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:18:10) > >> Is there a fundamental difference between paying someone to do > >> "non-fun administrative tasks" like accounting, and paying someone > >> to help out with orphane

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:18:10) >> >> Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: >> >> > On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> >> Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau >> >> a écrit : >> >>> On 2021-03-19 08 h 02, Rap

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:18:10) > > Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: > > > On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >> Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau > >> a écrit : > >>> On 2021-03-19 08 h 02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I've been

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: > On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau a écrit : >>> On 2021-03-19 08 h 02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I've been telling a few people last month that I would really liked to >>>

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau a écrit : >> On 2021-03-19 08 h 02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I've been telling a few people last month that I would really liked to have an Enterprise Edition Online MiniD

How to motivate contributors to work on QA

2021-03-23 Thread Christian Kastner
Dear DPL candidates, the topic of paying developers for Debian work has been raised a few times in abstract terms, and in your answers, I think you made it more or less clear where you stand. However, looking at this from the other side of the argument, I still believe that relying on pure volunt

diversity

2021-03-23 Thread Bart Martens
Hello DPL candidates, A question about diversity. We all know that some profiles are underrepresented: gender, etnic group, disability, age, sexual preference, education degree, rich/poor, spoken & written languages... 1/ One way of addressing this, is actively BENEFIT the underrepresented profil