Re: Website beta trial

2004-07-26 Thread Fabricio Cannini
nicole wrote: At 12:25 on Jul 23, Carla Schroder shook the earth with: On Friday 23 July 2004 11:39 am, Amaya wrote: Jutta Wrage wrote: Why basically men? What is the intention of the supporters page? As seen at: http://women.kde.org/aboutus/supporters.php Hm

Re: X Question

2004-07-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:13:37PM -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: > I've been running 2 servers using Debian for about 6 months. > However, neither has had X installed. Today I'm setting up a > desktop, with X installed. X starts, but does not appear. How do I > go about bringing up Gnome? Try "ech

Re: Profiles/contributors (was:Re: Website beta trial)

2004-07-26 Thread Art McGee
> I AM a "cranky old bat". Dipping back into the recesses of > my memory, to the 60's which I remember all too well, the > struggle for the rights of Blacks in the U.S. didn't > really gain momentum until "white" people joined in. I > think that it takes some men saying, "Let these women into > our

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-26 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:39:28AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > I'm not a programmer, just an old country sysadmin, so I've been thinking > over > what I can do in terms of supporting Debian. Would proofreading/copyediting > be useful? I know that writing man pages and howtos is always in dema

Re: Website beta trial

2004-07-26 Thread Fabricio Cannini
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Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Jutta Wrage
Am Montag, 26.07.04 um 14:14 Uhr schrieb Erinn Clark: I agree with the contributors page. People should get credit for things they've done. The interesting bit is going to be defining what qualifies as a contribution.. Okay, let us look from people, who are visiting the page: If they acct

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Erinn Clark wrote: > > 1. People agree with having a contributors page > 2. The supporters page is still controversial I still haven't quite made up my mind on whether I'd consider having a supporters page a good idea or not. I think what bothers me most

editing Debian documentation

2004-07-26 Thread Carla Schroder
I'm not a programmer, just an old country sysadmin, so I've been thinking over what I can do in terms of supporting Debian. Would proofreading/copyediting be useful? I know that writing man pages and howtos is always in demand. But I've noticed that a lot of existing documention could use a bit

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Carla Schroder
On Monday 26 July 2004 8:13 am, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:10:01AM -0400, Erinn Clark insinuated: > > * Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:07:25 23:41 +0100]: > > > 2) The comments by the debian developers on Amaya's site, in > > > answer to the questions, were interesti

Re: Women in Open Source

2004-07-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:36:52AM +0200, Amaya Rodrigo Sastre insinuated: > - Forwarded message from Greg Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:27:29 -0400 > From: Greg Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Michelle Levesque <[EMAI

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:10:01AM -0400, Erinn Clark insinuated: > * Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:07:25 23:41 +0100]: > > 2) The comments by the debian developers on Amaya's site, in > > answer to the questions, were interesting to me to read. They > > represent a range of opinions and

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Michelle Murrain
Erinn Clark wrote: 2. The supporters page is still controversial I have been pretty much reading most of this thread, but I probably have missed a few things. I did think, though, it might be time to weigh in. One suggestion that I have is that it might make sense to define supporters rathe

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Erinn Clark
* Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:07:25 23:41 +0100]: > 2) The comments by the debian developers on Amaya's site, in answer to > the questions, were interesting to me to read. They represent a range > of opinions and ideas. They may get other people than me thinking about > the issu

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi again all, 1. People agree with having a contributors page 2. The supporters page is still controversial I have to wonder what the point of the latter is. I found the perspectives interesting, but I also disagreed with quite a few of them and felt they were a bit condescending; not at all t

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Erinn Clark
* Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:07:26 13:03 +0200]: > nicole wrote: > > If we don't have a supporters section, we should have a contributors > > section. > > Again I truly believe in *visibility*. A contributors section would help > a lot there. Do you want me to take car of it too?. I've not

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Amaya
nicole wrote: > If we don't have a supporters section, we should have a contributors > section. Again I truly believe in *visibility*. A contributors section would help a lot there. Do you want me to take car of it too?. > Either section, I think, should be "gender agnostic" and not "gender > spe

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-26 Thread Amaya
Don Armstrong wrote: > Perhaps it would be better to make the supporter page gender neutral? Great idea! I know where to find the guys, will the women know where to find me? :-) I sure welcome any support feedback from women. And I indeed think it's a great idea. -- .''`. Resistance is fu