PROPOSAL: Additional yearly voting ritual

2006-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
ve my idea some consideration and forward me any feedback. With very pleasant regards and in fellowship towards the greater good, ~E -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com

Re: PROPOSAL: Additional yearly voting ritual

2006-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
on marks I am using! -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
e are slowly formalizing what has been done for a long time through an evasion of mind. If we can continue to formalize our progress towards the goal we've held all along then that seem productive. Rome wasn't built in a day and all that sort of thing. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfoo

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
currently push that to the forefront and use our most trafficked pages to aggressively push hardware that makes it easy for us to execute the obligations of the Social Contract. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
he boundaries of the law to promote change to a more open system. ... Obviously, we can't be in the position of asking our donors or our users to purposefully break the law. Where law and logistics make it impossible to be "completely free" we must strive to be as "fre

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
ave a computer that is 99.9% free? Keep in mind that I'm asking this in the scenario where providing the last 0.01% as Free Software would be illegal. With the way cell phones and hosted applications are developing it might not be so far-fetched. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EM

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Ean Schuessler
ue. Would someone privately mail me a link(s) to the best summary of what we need? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Manoj Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > > > It's all a matter of defining what your priorities are, which brings > > us back to the Social Contract, which says that these include: > > > > - 100% freeness > > - cater best to the inter

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-12 Thread Ean Schuessler
ett Packard could give us some perspective on how their internal packages could fit into that sort of scheme. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-12 Thread Ean Schuessler
For the sake of argument, what if we created a distribution of Debian that only runs on architectures with more than one CPU. We will designate one of the CPUs to be the "non-free CPU". This CPU will run all "sourceless" software. For this distribution we can move all of non

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
ian Compatible" environment will serve us, them and our users. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
t;, which I immediately reserved as a means of making a point about trademark infringement. That URL could still be a good place to do this kind of work and I'm happy to hand it back to SPI if someone is serious about doing that kind of work on it. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: call for seconds: on firmware (was: on firmware (possible proposal))

2008-11-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
in addition to our "official" images that are completely Free. I realize that I haven't contributed to Debian enough lately to really complain about any of this but I still can't help being surprised. We should be running free ads for hardware vendors that offer pre-rolle

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-16 Thread Ean Schuessler
o so. > > (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 > majority) This seems rational and pragmatic. I second this proposal. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-16 Thread Ean Schuessler
" doesn't turn into "steal when convenient". If we must break the rules then please lets do "steal when you have no other choice and pay back with interest later". -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
of it, you can't know for sure what it is doing with your information. We want to be sure and so do our *real* users. ps. Take all of that with a grain of salt since I agree that we should release Lenny with continued *temporary* exceptions for problematic, popular firmware. -- Ea

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
ar. Can you see any criteria that I'm missing here? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Josselin Mouette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 13:01 -0600, Ean Schuessler a écrit : > > No, the proposal wouldn’t allow that since it only lifts DFSG #2. Such > an image would still fail DFSG #1, #3, #7, and probably #5 and #6. No

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
eria? When considering Silverlight(tm) development tools this use case is not even far-fetched. I made the mistake in my earlier message of saying "main". I should have said "sourceless". In either case, the firmware in question could be distributed as part of our stan

Dwindling popularity

2008-11-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
d thingies will be running Ubuntu and not Debian. That will give them lots of users that we will never have a chance at, no matter how much proprietary firmware we bundle in. There may be other solutions to this problem but I think we have to correctly identify the source first

Re: Dwindling popularity

2008-11-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
ll Debian + proprietary firmware? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
ode in Debian. The > Debian project has done no such thing. The Debian project can only act through its members (until we build an AI) so your point seems syntactically meaningless. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To U

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
n-disclosure agreement. Should we just create a system where Debian-Private authors can authorize messages (3 years or otherwise) and they are automatically made publicly available. Is there a legal barrier to creating such a system, GR or no GR? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.

Re: debian services and responsibility

2002-03-01 Thread Ean Schuessler
e empathy and maybe a shred of patience. E -- _________ Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian services and responsibility

2002-03-01 Thread Ean Schuessler
ou've changed gears. > So again, I apologize for contributing to the confusion surrounding the > siutation with Debian machines hosted at Brainfood. Apology accepted and deeply appreciated. -- _ Ean Schuessler

Re: debian services and responsibility

2002-03-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
that prompted it. -- _________ Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
sure, maybe. If the firmware runs is executed by a Turing complete CPU attached to the system then it is a binary like any other and should be subject to the same rules anything else is! Modern 3Ware cards have a PowerPC CPU. Claiming that their firmware is not an executable is a distortion.

Re: Call for vote (Re: call for seconds: on firmware)

2008-12-12 Thread Ean Schuessler
quot;Manoj Srivastava" wrote: > Here is the *DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT* ballot for the GR. Please note > the dates on the ballot; voting is not open yet. > > Please send comments to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org list. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
d installer out of "non-free". Its just as easy for users to download and it doesn't require us breaking our foundational documents or distorting the notion of what constitutes free software. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfo

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
certainly do not envy Manoj's position. The task of turning this firmware hoo-haw into a reasonable vote seems difficult at the very best. Thank you, Manoj, for your work. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
majority as long as you actually believe that firmware constitutes "source" (which it may, in some rare cases). -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Ean Schuessler" wrote: > I know that some are fixated on the fact that firmware runs on "some > other CPU" but I don't buy that line of reasoning. If this firmware > business passes then I am going to start hunting down some MAME ROMs > that have laps

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-15 Thread Ean Schuessler
ing started). I fail to understand how serious Debian >Developers arrive at a point where enforcing the DFSG is an exercise for >"zealots". -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-15 Thread Ean Schuessler
declaring firmware to be source but I agree on the notion that marking a release ready state is a separate matter. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-16 Thread Ean Schuessler
out their interpretation. > > And that's my interpretation too. I think the constitution is quite > clear here. If the new interpretation alters the meaning of the document then the operation is functionally identical. This discussion is taking on shades of 1984... war is peace, bi

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
ruptive and expensive to our users as a technical problem. I think this factor is really what the discussion is about and why release continues to be a sticking point year after year. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UN

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
27;s my opinion and if that makes me a "zealot", fine. Guilty as charged. I do want to say, I still really appreciate all the work that you and everyone else involved in the release and FTP process does. I love Debian and use it every single day (practically every hour). Sorry that I&#

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
between a rock and a hard place with this one. Thanks for the hard work. I'm mighty curious who wants to sign up for this beating next. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ..

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
behavior for project members? To me the foundation documents are "foundational" in the sense of the Bill of Rights. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lis

Re: gr_lenny vs gr_socialcontract

2008-12-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
the contents, then I think you need to analyze your motivations. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Supermajority requirements and historical context [Was, Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR]

2008-12-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
onsensus requirements. It seems like they may malfunction but I can't really visualize all the ways that might happen. Is there a mathematician in the house? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Supermajority requirements and historical context [Was, Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR]

2008-12-22 Thread Ean Schuessler
t is the same as a "do this, don't do this" vote. If it is between the next closest runner up, then it seems poorly defined. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ..

Re: Supermajority requirements and historical context [Was, Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR]

2008-12-22 Thread Ean Schuessler
to the original plan is not a crazy idea. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-29 Thread Ean Schuessler
just thump them out, but a temporary compromise > is not necessarily a change of our principles. > So, yes, that does require interpretation. Could we please vote on whether the Social Contract is the "foundation" of the constitution? This notion that the SC is a "suggestio

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2009-01-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
get things done) seems nonsensical in the extreme. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2009-01-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
ly. After that we can move on to correcting the constitution/social contract gap and figuring out if we need another drawer labeled "firmware and other indispensable non-free bits" for things people just can't stand to put in non-free. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@

Re: Purpose of the Constitution and the Foundation Documents

2009-01-06 Thread Ean Schuessler
with your reasoning, I challenge you to work things through to their conclusion. B is not a solution, its the beginning of a problem. "Do what thou wilt" -- Francois Rabelais -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315

Re: Purpose of the Constitution and the Foundation Documents

2009-01-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
ese items even though I expect that the second option requires 3:1 under the constitution. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Ean Schuessler
solution by the next release. So I'm sorry Robert, your heart is absolutely in the right place but I agree that we should release Lenny. I encourage you to "go with flow" and think about structuring the solution down the road. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Ean Schuessler
. Do not take this as an expression of distaste on my part. There are no "enemies" here, just people disagreeing passionately. Passion is good, we just need to channel it properly. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Ean Schuessler
lone. Please do not ask for another GR unless you want one. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com e...@brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-12 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Wouter Verhelst" wrote: > # Debian Code of Conduct ... > ## In case of problems > > Serious or persistent offenders will be temporarily or permanently > banned from communicating through Debian's systems. Complaints should > be made (in private) to the administrators of the Debian commun

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-12 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Ian Jackson" wrote: > This isn't really true IMO. Someone who is banned can always send a > message privately to a sympathetic contributor, who can forward it if > it seems relevant or interesting. (I have in fact done this for a > contributor who was under some kind of cloud, when they

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-24 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Steve McIntyre" wrote: > I'm not sure how wiki.d.o bans would fit. We *could* list banned > users > on a specific page, I guess. But the vast majority of the bans we > ever > enact are for spamming. I feel like spamming and trolling should be considered a different phenomena than bans bro

Re: Rationale for CoC proposal A

2014-03-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
What if the DPL begins to consider persistent disagreement with the DPL as a form of "flaming"? - "Wouter Verhelst" wrote: > I'd like to propose a rationale for option one on the ballot, if I > may: > > Rationale: > Allowing the DPL to update the Code of Conduct will make it easier > to >

Re: The Code of Conduct needs specifics

2014-03-24 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Russ Allbery" wrote: > I think this is a mistake. > > The experiences of other groups have mostly convinced me that the > point of > a Code of Conduct should be to scare away potential contributors who > cannot or are unwilling to behave according to the standards that we > expect of our

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Holger Levsen" wrote: > If you don't like upstreams choices, *you* should write patches. Not > GRs telling other people to do so. Very well stated. Perhaps a sensible response to this GR is for all of the maintainers who truly disagree with it to state their intent of putting their packag

Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
feel like your contribution is worthwhile! Cheers and in disgust! ~E * This very sarcastic email brought to you by servers hosted at the highly incompetent Brainfood corporation and written by the naggy, incompetent and grousy Ean Schuessler and his incompetent staff. Proudly serving Debia

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
you as a key obstruction a while > ago), and yet doing lots of very important work for the project. > > Which packages do you maintain, by the way? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
you brought it up. > > Why didn't the payee of this check ask you instead of Branden? Do you > not communicate? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
uld and do concern me. Branden is the one who continues to publicly antagonize me on this topic for no apparent reason. I am discussing it on this list because his behavior reflects on his suitability as a candidate. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
Whoops. I misworded that. Branden must have failed to copy my Mother about cutting the check. He only told the list. Otherwise, why would she write him an email? Sorry. On Saturday 19 February 2005 02:48 pm, Ean Schuessler wrote: > It mostly indicates that Branden did not copy my Mother on

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Saturday 19 February 2005 03:31 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Because she didn't bother asking you? But that's not the point. About sending the check? > The question is, why didn't you clear this up directly with Branden? Ok, I'm game. Why? ps. Who's on

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
leader effectively. You may > not be running for DPL, but you are serving in a position of > responsibility for SPI, and you don't seem to have the things needed > to do that well. You aren't playing nice. You are trying to solve > inter-personal problems by bringing them up on big gro

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
s when I ask for simple tasks to be performed. > > You are one of its representatives. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
out of google, out of public lists and hidden from view. I know that's what I signed up for. Cheers! -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
st about to come to an end). > Why not just feel happy that these things are finally resolved. (It can > happen all the time that reminders and invoice payments overlap.) -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Invoice #3603 from Brainfood Inc.]

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
FYI, Here is the "naggy, grousing email" that my Mother sent SPI. This is, by the way, the *only* reminder we sent SPI in the six month period it took SPI to pay its bill. Huzzah! -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
up. Without Debian's money and trademarks SPI is largely irrelevant. I think its all good food for thought. I do agree about the campaign though. I'm just warming up a little, since Branden has been doing the same. Speaking of... I'm not running for DPL but here is something

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
ed papers I assumed you were aware of it. Of course, maybe that wasn't "procedural" enough for you guys to take any action on it. > Actually, "this year" would be inaccurate. "last year" would even be > inaccurate. This would have to be 200

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
it's anything like working > smoothly by July. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *sigh*

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Schuessler
by Brainfood and Branden Robinson. > > ... > > Please, guys. I think it's pretty clear to everyone involved now that > Branden Robinson and Ean Schuessler don't really, uh, like eachother all > that much. Such is life. Can we go on now, please? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-22 Thread Ean Schuessler
is finally *starting* to act like a real, > competant organization, after almost 8 years. These are tentative baby > steps, of course, and much remains to be done. I hope that 8 years from > now, we can look back and see how far we've come, rather than continuing > to point fing

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
nd Debian is its main customer. If I had a bank mislay checks constituting 50% of my account holdings I would take a very active interest in its operations. I don't think its a question of who will represent Debian in SPI but rather the level of performance Debian expects. The representative

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
. Especially since such requests ironically continue the very thing you are trying to end. Uh, so there. Nyah. etc. On Wednesday 23 February 2005 4:35 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Please take this off debian-vote. It is not on-topic here and belongs > elsewhere. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
ng lists where they belong? SPI is not in a position to change its own behavior. :-D -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-23 Thread Ean Schuessler
task on. Let me be clear. The fact that he failed isn't the problem. Branden is a stand up guy but we're talking about running for DPL. When addressing his failure he can't say things like "I didn't lose the funds, they were sent back to the donors." That's not DP

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-24 Thread Ean Schuessler
> We probably have some non-treasurer things -- incorporation papers, etc > -- that should be in a safe deposit box somewhere. I'm aware of that. > It just hasn't been at the top of the list given all the other urgent > needs we have around here. Or are you aware of things

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-24 Thread Ean Schuessler
sion to sign checks even though he was no longer treasurer. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-24 Thread Ean Schuessler
n ass > to your peers really the only strategy you find effective in life? Of course, you would never stoop to such tactics, would you? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-24 Thread Ean Schuessler
c DPL-platform like statements in this month. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
re welcome to either post suggested questions to this list, or to > email myself and/or Martin privately with your suggestions. If you wish > your questions to be anonymous, please email us privately and make that > clear. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brai

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
tions will you take to insure that Debian's funds and other property are managed in a professional manner? How will you insure successful execution? Sorry, I should have read it out loud. On Wednesday 02 March 2005 8:42 pm, MJ Ray wrote: > Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
Subjects for different topics would be nice too... -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Schuessler
that the newsleatter is > modeled on a US tabloid, which I have never read (except for headlines > about two-headed cows while standing in line with my milk). If it wasn't > so sad, that alligation would be histerical. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brain

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
hrough his "100 supporters" technique but this has escaped your notice. At least my "campaining" has the excuse of thousands of misplaced Debian dollars driving it. Moreover, I'm not running for office and receive no personal benefit if the issues I've raised are a

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
se? > > * ELF binary without C source > * Java class file without Java source >(This is reasonably decompilable: cf. jad package) ... > * Dump of neural network data without training data or without >exact method to duplicate the network ... -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
y 05 March 2005 6:55 pm, MJ Ray wrote: > http://women.alioth.debian.org/profiles/ -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-07 Thread Ean Schuessler
ll make all > of your 1000 points go away in two years if you don't replenish them. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for Andreas and Branden

2005-03-08 Thread Ean Schuessler
; notion. One person enforcing their political position on another is > simply inexcusable; a higher crime does not exist. It's a form of > slavery. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q for Andreas Schuldei: "Small teams"??

2005-03-08 Thread Ean Schuessler
? Especially the parts about being "assigned" to a team, > "team leader" and "requirements for teams" stopped me cold in the tracks. > > Regards, David -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q for Andreas Schuldei: "Small teams"??

2005-03-08 Thread Ean Schuessler
Please see > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/03/msg00298.html > > and > http://debian.edv-bus.at/vote-2005/project-scud.html > "Constitutionality" -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com

Re: My platform

2005-03-08 Thread Ean Schuessler
ncerned that the long-term goal is going to > suffer by forcing users to make the choice between (a) going somewhere > else or (b) exposing themselves to poorly supported software from > non-free. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
y, you lose. > > You can get another ticket for the Meme Lottery if you tell us what we > (and/or the new DPL) should do instead, given that (a) inappropriate > "content" is a problem on many Debian lists, and (b) previous attempts to > tone said content down have failed.

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
gt; wellcoming climate too. > > Is a bus with a whites-only section at the front segregated? > > Really, it is simple to make the debian-women project not > segregated, but it seems clear from > http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2004/08/msg00100.html > that segregation is in

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
communicate anything whatsoever, even if > it's detrimental to the communication. So, sorry, but your "we" isn't > exactly the same as my "we". -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Another Q for Andreas Schuldei

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
When we go on our required Debian Skinny Dipping Adventure(tm) will we also be required to form into "small groups?" Will what remains of Debian-Women still be allowed to exclude men? Dark prospects indeed . . . -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood,

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-11 Thread Ean Schuessler
agree with you that endless debate for the sake of lip-flapping is one of the project's biggest challenges. I just think you are over-simplifying the solutions. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for candidate Walther

2005-03-11 Thread Ean Schuessler
onsortium? I vote for that guy. > > Manoj, did you tally that? Thanks. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-15 Thread Ean Schuessler
er than removing it. I don't know what it takes to make this clear but non-professional, volunteer accounting help is not working for Debian. It has never worked well and it is just barely working now. Shifting responsibility to multiple organizations will only create more problems unless t

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