Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Devin, On 3/20/22 18:09, Devin Prater wrote: * Currently, Debian backports is how people with disabilities can get the most up-to-date accessibility fixes and improvements while remaining on a stable base system. For example, the newest version of the Orca screen reader, with all of its fix

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-20 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:09:24 -0500 Devin Prater wrote: > * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? Sorry, no. It means that there's an opportunity to people like me can know it more if the Debian Accessibility group could show their duties and activities :) > * Currently, Deb

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Gunnar Wolf wrote on 20/03/2022 at 17:44:44+0100: > Felix Lechner dijo [Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 06:49:50AM -0700]: >> Hi Gunnar, >> >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:47 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> > >> > This year I think I will break my usual >> > practice, and vote a certain DPL candidate below NotA :

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Jonathan, On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 11:09 AM Jonathan Carter wrote: > > How would you gauge that, Felix? It's impractical to have a vote every > time a decision is to be made, which is why voters want to know how a > potential DPL would make choices so that they can make an informed > choice on

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Devin, On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 10:09 AM Devin Prater wrote: > > I'd like to ask a few questions of all candidates for Debian leadership. > As a person who is blind, these are of significant importance to me. > I hope that, in asking these questions and maybe sparking a > discussion on these to

To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-20 Thread Devin Prater
Good day, I'd like to ask a few questions of all candidates for Debian leadership. As a person who is blind, these are of significant importance to me. I hope that, in asking these questions and maybe sparking a discussion on these topics, attention can be focused on Debian's role in the lives of

Another round of open questions

2022-03-20 Thread dpl-voter
Hi Andriy and others, Andriy Grytsenko wrote: > Thanks for the comment. It is so, exactly. The war came to an active > state, Russian nazis launch missiles over our country, trying to conquer > and set up marionette government. Our Army proven to be good enough to > fight them but many civilians

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Richard, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 7:53 PM Richard Laager wrote: > > This is a complex topic, but in broad strokes, the concept of having > more people involved seems reasonable to me. But I fear that the idea > and the reality may be different. How do you plan to find all the people > to sit on

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Felix Lechner dijo [Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 06:49:50AM -0700]: > Hi Gunnar, > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:47 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > This year I think I will break my usual > > practice, and vote a certain DPL candidate below NotA :-\ > > With that statement, you potentially committed two >

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Tiago, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 7:56 PM Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > I have to say I feel really troubled by reading this. It's hard to believe > that > a candidate for DPL addresses a legitimate and quite sensitive question with > such a rhetorical passive-aggressive borderline-bullying re

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Taowa
Felix Lechner, 2022-03-20 09:50 -0400: > Hi Gunnar, > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:47 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > This year I think I will break my usual > > practice, and vote a certain DPL candidate below NotA :-\ +1 > With that statement, you potentially committed two > infractions—depend

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
> That is a big gray area, but restrictions exist in > the US [3] The Hatch Act only applies to Employees of the United States Federal Government from engaging in political activity using their official position (in the case of a regular, and not restricted federal employee). You can't engage in p

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Gunnar, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:47 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > This year I think I will break my usual > practice, and vote a certain DPL candidate below NotA :-\ With that statement, you potentially committed two infractions—depending on where you live. First, revealing a vote is widely lo

Re: Question to all candidates: how is Debian doing?

2022-03-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/03/22 at 16:54 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > As someone who used to care a lot about Debian, but who hasn't been able > to pay much attention to the project lately, I was wondering: On 17/03/22 at 13:57 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:52 PM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Bill, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:50 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > > Could someone explain what does that mean ? I'm sorry no one has gotten back to you so far. I do not know which ideas Jonathan Carter and Brian Gupta (copied as a courtesy) have been pursuing. My own thinking on this point is al

Re: Question to all candidates: how is Debian doing?

2022-03-20 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:54:54 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > How is Debian doing currently? Working steadily as well as before, and providing better quality in testing/unstable than ever (stable is also better of course). As usual, more packages in each releases. > What are the recent su

Re: Question to all candidates: Code of Conduct and Community Team - how do you feel about them?

2022-03-20 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 19:34:03 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > We've had the Code of Conduct for about eight years now and the Community Team > for about as long. There are still significant differences about how some > people feel about them, despite the Code of Conduct having been adopted