Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Gergely Nagy dijo [Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:32:32PM +0100]: >> Debian is also not impressively different, so to say. We have a distinct >> culture, we have great technical solutions, but those are hardly enough >> to impress someone who just casually looks. We need to reach o

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gergely Nagy dijo [Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:32:32PM +0100]: > I see people around me teach their children to use and control > computers, to build things with them, even before they learn to > write. They have their toys, they build stuff, sometimes they > unknowingly write programs - before the age

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/03/13 at 14:54 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 04:28:03PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote [edited]: > > On 16/03/13 at 15:31 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > > have > > > you considered assignments for the preparation of patches for wishlist > > > bugs in > > > nat

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-17 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > > If you refer to university students in some software-related discipline: > > have > > you considered assignments for the preparation of patches for wishlist bugs > > in > > native and pseudo-pack

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-17 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 04:28:03PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote [edited]: > On 16/03/13 at 15:31 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > have > > you considered assignments for the preparation of patches for wishlist bugs > > in > > native and pseudo-packages (eg. infra-related sw projects)? > > Have

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-16 17:47, Gergely Nagy wrote: ...and this highlights another issue I have with our infrastructure: wnpp can be quite an intimidating mess, with over a thousand packages in ITP and RFP state. That's a lot. I get scared just by looking at the number, and I'd like to think I'm not the o

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/03/13 at 15:31 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:21:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote [edited]: > > But asking students to contribute to Debian during university projects is > > quite > > difficult (I have thought about it numerous times, but never found a > > good

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:21:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote [edited]: >> But asking students to contribute to Debian during university projects is >> quite >> difficult (I have thought about it numerous times, but never found a >> good-enough idea). it would be i

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:21:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote [edited]: > But asking students to contribute to Debian during university projects is > quite > difficult (I have thought about it numerous times, but never found a > good-enough idea). it would be interesting to share feedback on tha

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Instead of answering Timo's question directly, I'll answer to Gunnar instead, in the hopes that I can answer both of them in a satisfactory manner. Gunnar Wolf writes: > Timo Juhani Lindfors dijo [Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:34:58PM +0200]: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to have each DPL candidate brie

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Toni, You quoted my mail by taking only one sentence of each of my paragraphs, so my answers look much less subtle in your email than they were in my email. ;) On 15/03/13 at 22:46 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > F

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-15 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Lucas, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > First, I don't think that age matters that much. imho, age does matter. See Bulbullle's notice why he doesn't run. I've seen people leaving other projects by eg. way of heart attack or traffic accident, too. Younger peop

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 10/03/13 at 22:32 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Timo Juhani Lindfors dijo [Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:34:58PM +0200]: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to have each DPL candidate briefly discuss the challenges of > > getting new people to Debian. > > Hi, > > Riding on Timo Juhani's question (and not y

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-11 07:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Riding on Timo Juhani's question (and not yet having read the two answers that it has already): There was an interesting discussion (sadly, in a private forum I cannot quote here, but the fact of having I believe you're referring to the discussion I summ

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > There was an interesting discussion (sadly, in a private forum I > cannot quote here, but the fact of having had the discussion does not > disclose private information, yada yada...) You mean the discussion (re)started publicly at:

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Timo Juhani Lindfors dijo [Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:34:58PM +0200]: > Hi, > > I'd like to have each DPL candidate briefly discuss the challenges of > getting new people to Debian. Hi, Riding on Timo Juhani's question (and not yet having read the two answers that it has already): There was an inte

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 10/03/13 at 17:34 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to have each DPL candidate briefly discuss the challenges of > getting new people to Debian. "people" is not very specific (users? contributors? DDs?), but maybe it's intentionally vague. Actually, I think that it is a pr

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-10 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-10 18:34, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: I'd like to have each DPL candidate briefly discuss the challenges of getting new people to Debian. I certainly don't think I have all the answers myself, but this is an area I am very keen to see more discussion of, so I must apologise in adva

to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-10 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, I'd like to have each DPL candidate briefly discuss the challenges of getting new people to Debian. -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/84sj439s