#d-women meeting reminder -- this Sunday!

2005-01-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
This Sunday, 16 Jan. 2005, at 0500 UTC[1], will mark the commencement of the next #debian-women IRC meeting/discussion forum. It is expected to run for approximately 1 hour, no doubt with some further discussion continuing from there. Our topic of discussion has been decided: we will be talking a

Re: About IRC meetings...

2005-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:17:39PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Point 6 from the link (having a mechanism whereby people raise their > hands to take it in turns to speak) is an interesting idea. I am not > sure whether I think it would work well for our meetings or not, bearing > in mind how

Re: About IRC meetings...

2005-01-12 Thread micah milano
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:17:39 +, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I think that point 5 from that link ypu posted > (http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcIRC), is a good idea. Namely > to have the moderator change the topic of the channel to reflect the > current question or s

Re: About IRC meetings...

2005-01-12 Thread gaba
Hi! Nice presentation! I have not been in any debian-women irc meeting cause i have not been reading enough all the mails and following the discussions... My energy goes some weeks yes, some weeks no due to contracts and time available. Some things that help for irc meetings with a lot of inter

Re: About IRC meetings...

2005-01-12 Thread Helen Faulkner
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Hello, As this is my first mail to the Debian-Women, here is a collection of short statements about me : Debian user, wanting to contribute ; male, aware of gender issues, not feeling well in most geeks circles due to sexism, competition and other common behaviours ; still n

About IRC meetings...

2005-01-12 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hello, As this is my first mail to the Debian-Women, here is a collection of short statements about me : Debian user, wanting to contribute ; male, aware of gender issues, not feeling well in most geeks circles due to sexism, competition and other common behaviours ; still not really knowing w

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050109 02:25]: > I've written an article showing how to make a package > just using dpkg and dpkg-dev. [..] > The document is right now in the wiki: > http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/BuildingWithoutHelper Did you read the lates Debian Weekly

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Jutta Wrage
Am Mittwoch, 12.01.05 um 14:18 Uhr schrieb aec: $ tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz would create a directory roaddemo-1.0.1 not roaddemo_1.0.1 It would create what ever is packed into it, which I do not know in this case. cu Jutta -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de http://witch.muensterland.org -- To

Re: My adventures with NM - part 5b (T&S vanquished)

2005-01-12 Thread Helen Faulkner
David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:29:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: FWIW, my own feeling is that it's good if the T&S questions include some "advanced skills" items that not everyone will be able to answer, and which don't hurt their eligibility. I think this is much more useful,

Re: My adventures with NM - part 5b (T&S vanquished)

2005-01-12 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:29:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > FWIW, my own feeling is that it's good if the T&S questions include some > "advanced skills" items that not everyone will be able to answer, and which > don't hurt their eligibility. I think this is much more useful, to the AM > and

Re: RC Bugsquashing howto [Re: Anyone up for bug squashing?]

2005-01-12 Thread Amaya
Steve Langasek wrote: > To answer your question, I don't believe in doing sponsored NMUs, > which is why that wasn't part of the presentation. I believe the > correct procedure is still for non-DDs to send patches to the BTS, and > for DDs to download such patches, review them, and prepare an NMU

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Giovanni Ridolfi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Dear Miriam, > > I think I found some typos in your nice article. > > > if she/he already did. > I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he" > see e.g.: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html > > and... I'd rather

Re: AM Report for Helen Faulkner

2005-01-12 Thread Simon Raven / Eric =?utf-8?B?Uy4gQ8O0dMOp?=
Le mar 2005-01-11 a 12:52:18 -0500, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > Welcome to the cult^Wfamily :) > > > Yep. FÃlicitations, Helenjust one very last step and you reach the > NirvÃna... > congrats :) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Rob Taylor
aec wrote: It was created by extracting roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz, which happened in the line 'tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz' Not to nitpick but I think Giovanni is correct... $ tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz would create a directory roaddemo-1.0.1 not roaddemo_1.0.1 Ah, um, yes, you're qu

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread aec
> Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > >> $ cd roaddemo_1.0.1 > >I do not understand when the *directory* roaddemo_1.0.1 (underscore) > >was created. > > > > Rob Taylor wrote: > It was created by extracting roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz, which happened in > the line 'tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz' Not to nitpic

Re: RC Bugsquashing howto [Re: Anyone up for bug squashing?]

2005-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > I'd like to propose an "RC bugsquashing tutorial" to coincide with the > > BSP this weekend. > Great idea! Keep us updated about it. > > Also, given the requirement for one-on-one attention from the only > > experi

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Rob Taylor
Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: Dear Miriam, I think I found some typos in your nice article. > if she/he already did. I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he" see e.g.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html and... I'd rather prefer you use the present perfect instead of past si

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Dear Miriam, I think I found some typos in your nice article. > if she/he already did. I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he" see e.g.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html and... I'd rather prefer you use the present perfect instead of past simple if she/he alre