[Draft] GR: diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-02 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Dear Debian Developers, A recent discussion [1] on Debian Women mailing list made me realize that the Debian Project, the community behind the *Universal* Operating System, doesn't have a diversity statement. The *technical* part of the project is already commited to diversity: we don't accept (in

Re: [Draft] GR: diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-07 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Hi Steffen, On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 10:18:28AM +0200, "Steffen Möller" wrote: > I agree that this should go out. Just, we have "our community" twice in > the text. Any linguistic expertise with us we could possibly > welcome? LOL > Anyway, it sounds strange enough to me to suggest > substit

[Call for seconds] GR: diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-07 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Dear Debian Developers, A recent discussion [1] on Debian Women mailing list made me realize that the Debian Project, the community behind the *Universal* Operating System, doesn't have a diversity statement. The *technical* part of the project is already commited to diversity: we don't accept (in

Call for vote - Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-15 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Dear Debian Developers, since the minimum discussion period is now over and since no amendments have been proposed, I'm hereby calling for a vote. TEXT TO BE VOTED STARTS HERE The Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone. No matter

Re: Call for vote - Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-15 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:42:58PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:34:42PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > > > A corresponding ballot might look like the following: > > > -

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-15 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:01:25PM +0300, Moray Allan wrote: > And clearly it's up to the DPN editors to decide whether > to include specific story suggestions or not. Thank you Moray for making this point. Francesca, the other press officer -- "Non mi uccise la morte, ma due guardie bigotte,

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-19 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 05:59:43PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi Ana! > > On 19/03/14 at 10:21 +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > > * Publicizing Debian > > > > We have several officials ways of publicizing stuff in Debian: > > press releases, identi.ca, bits.d.o and the DPN. We also have t

Re: Both DPL candidates: handling social conflict

2014-03-21 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:24:03PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 20. März 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Sorry for the slight hijack but: > > | X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) > > > > ^^^ > > Seriously? > > why not? We welcome non technical cont

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-08 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > The Debian Constitution is very well written, in a way that is almost > completely > ungendered. The only gendered word left is the Chairman of the Technical > Committee. There is no reason for this position to be gendered

Re: Amendment to Proposed GR: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest

2016-07-18 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 05:56:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest > > 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private >list archives" is repealed. > > 2. Debian listmasters and/or