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: 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: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Carsten Hey wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 10:53:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > "To be valid, a Debian Developers can send a signed email in which they > > > nominate themselves, to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org lis

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

2009-03-07 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 10:53:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > "To be valid, a Debian Developers can send a signed email in which they > > nominate themselves, to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org lists" > > > this nicely avoid

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

2009-03-07 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 10:53:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > "To be valid, a Debian Developers can send a signed email in which they > > nominate themselves, to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org lists" > > "a Debian Developers

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

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > You mean I can nominate someone else? ;-P > (suggested phrasing: > "To be valid, a Debian Developers can send a signed email in which they > nominate themselves, to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org lists" > this nicely avoids gen

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

2009-03-07 Thread Per Andersson
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:11:16PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:53:10AM +, Per Andersson wrote: >> > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Debian Pr

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

2009-03-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 01:36:04PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:46:31PM +0100, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > >Hi, > > > >The nomination period for the DPL election is almost over. If you > >want to nominate yourself as canidate you need to send a signed > >mail to

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

2009-03-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:11:16PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:53:10AM +, Per Andersson wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Debian Project Secretary > > > wrote: > > > > To be valid, a Debi

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

2009-03-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:46:31PM +0100, Debian Project Secretary wrote: >Hi, > >The nomination period for the DPL election is almost over. If you >want to nominate yourself as canidate you need to send a signed >mail to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org list. I hereby nominate myself as a candid

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

2009-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:11:16PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:53:10AM +, Per Andersson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Debian Project Secretary > > wrote: > > > To be valid, a Debian Developer needs to send a signed email in > > > which he nominates himse

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

2009-03-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:53:10AM +, Per Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Debian Project Secretary > wrote: > > To be valid, a Debian Developer needs to send a signed email in > > which he nominates himself to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org > > list. > > Can't women nomin

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

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:53:10AM +, Per Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Debian Project Secretary > wrote: > > To be valid, a Debian Developer needs to send a signed email in > > which he nominates himself to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org > > list. > Can't women nominat

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

2009-03-06 Thread Per Andersson
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > To be valid, a Debian Developer needs to send a signed email in > which he nominates himself to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org > list. Can't women nominate themselves? Best regards, Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vot