Re: Acronym on About page of main site

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 19/06/2005, at 12:41 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: Would you, American people, please give the full phrase when asked for this? I agree with removing this phrase, but for non-English speakers, I thought it might be worth mentioning that the term "bird" also has an English slang meaning: a wo

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 19/06/2005, at 4:21 AM, Jutta Wrage wrote: The debian pages have some nice things to tell the translators or other interested people, which translations are up-to-date with the original pages. Would be nice for you to have such a help for debian-women, too. Unfortunately, the Debian tr

Re: Acronym on About page of main site

2005-06-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:06:18 21:34 -0300]: > > * Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:06:18 16:23 +0930]: > > > Sorry for my ignorance: while translating the About page on the main > > > D-W site, I've run into the acronym BOF: > > BOF == Birds of a Feather > > Would

Re: Harrassment, sexism, etc. (was: DW quotes)

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 19/06/2005, at 1:45 AM, Herman Robak wrote: Sorry, Herman, I should have said. These were older boys, and sadly, it got worse and worse as time went on. If the school let that go on, I find it really disturbing. (Little of that children and adolecents do disturb me. Call me cynic...)

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 18/06/2005, at 11:39 PM, Thierry Reding wrote: What would be the simplest tool in this case? I'm open to suggestions. Maybe to make it easier for translators we could provide a tarball of the latest English sources on the website? People could then download this tarball, translate the

Re: Thank you for the software

2005-06-18 Thread Herman Robak
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:51:14 +0200, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:13:58PM +0200, Herman Robak wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:59:01 -0700 (PDT), Mitch Obrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >https://cat2.dynu.ca/cat2/programs.html Thank you for the link.

Re: Thank you for the software

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:13:58PM +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:59:01 -0700 (PDT), Mitch Obrian > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...snip... > > >My gpl'd and bsd'd contributions to the > >opensource/freesoftware movement can be found here: > >https://cat2.dynu.ca/cat2/pro

Re: Acronym on About page of main site

2005-06-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
> * Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:06:18 16:23 +0930]: > > Sorry for my ignorance: while translating the About page on the main > > D-W site, I've run into the acronym BOF: > BOF == Birds of a Feather Would you, American people, please give the full phrase when asked for this? "Birds of

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.06.2005 um 14:54 schrieb Clytie Siddall: Thanks, Jutta: I'll have a look there. Fink has been letting me down a lot. :( Bazaar is not in the ports at http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ it seems. And Fink project does not have it either:

Re: Harrassment, sexism, etc. (was: DW quotes)

2005-06-18 Thread Herman Robak
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:26:59 +0930, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18/06/2005, at 8:04 PM, Herman Robak wrote: I remember in the sixth grade when the boys in my class found that groping the girls' newly developed breasts made the girls highly un- comfortable. Soon they were

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Thierry Reding
* Jutta Wrage wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Am 18.06.2005 um 16:09 schrieb Thierry Reding: > > >What would be the simplest tool in this case? > > > > SVN, I think, as it has the advantage over CVS not needing a special > port and working over http. The same g

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.06.2005 um 16:09 schrieb Thierry Reding: What would be the simplest tool in this case? SVN, I think, as it has the advantage over CVS not needing a special port and working over http. If every women/member wanted to put an own version

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Thierry Reding
* Jutta Wrage wrote: [...] > > Am 18.06.2005 um 14:22 schrieb Dafydd Harries: > > >Arch also works over HTTP. > > That was written to show one of the differences between CVS and SVN. > - - Context is important. I believe this was meant in the same context: to show a difference between CVS and

Re: pure Debian box?

2005-06-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi Sonia! Hey! On 6/16/05, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pbuilder is probably the most popular solution. It has the disadvantage of requiring root privileges (to use chroots), but is much simpler and performs better than (e.g.) UML. Thanks everyone

Thank you for the software

2005-06-18 Thread Herman Robak
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:59:01 -0700 (PDT), Mitch Obrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...snip... My gpl'd and bsd'd contributions to the opensource/freesoftware movement can be found here: https://cat2.dynu.ca/cat2/programs.html Thank you for the link. I needed one of those programs. -- Herma

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.06.2005 um 14:22 schrieb Dafydd Harries: Arch also works over HTTP. That was written to show one of the differences between CVS and SVN. - - Context is important. Having said all of that, I wholeheartedly agree that Bazaar has usabili

Re: Harrassment, sexism, etc. (was: DW quotes)

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 18/06/2005, at 8:04 PM, Herman Robak wrote: I remember in the sixth grade when the boys in my class found that groping the girls' newly developed breasts made the girls highly un- comfortable. Soon they were gang-groping. It stopped when a female teacher told them it was too silly. These

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 18/06/2005, at 9:26 PM, Jutta Wrage wrote: Thanks for the link. It does look pretty complex for me now (the sort of thing I would have enjoyed very much before becoming ill), and they don't seem to have any notes for Mac OSX 10.4, which is a major update. The main problem about arch

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-18 Thread Rob Taylor
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 04:41 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Quoting Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > definition of 'polite', and that it will never happen that everything > > > you encounter does meet it. So you just have to learn how to dea

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 18/06/2005 am 13:56, ysgrifennodd Jutta Wrage: > > Am 18.06.2005 um 04:37 schrieb Clytie Siddall: > > > Thanks for the link. It does look pretty complex for me now (the > > sort of thing I would have enjoyed very much before becoming ill), > > and they don't seem to have any notes for Mac

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > definition of 'polite', and that it will never happen that everything > > you encounter does meet it. So you just have to learn how to deal with > > it. > > You mean that we have to learn how to deal wi

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-18 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.06.2005 um 04:37 schrieb Clytie Siddall: Thanks for the link. It does look pretty complex for me now (the sort of thing I would have enjoyed very much before becoming ill), and they don't seem to have any notes for Mac OSX 10.4, which is a

Harrassment, sexism, etc. (was: DW quotes)

2005-06-18 Thread Herman Robak
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:18:14 +0930, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I remember when my elder daughter, then 12, came home from school one day and talked about a social development class they'd had that day. In the course of describing it, she said that one of the questions had b

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Re: DW quotes

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > definition of 'polite', and that it will never happen that everything > you encounter does meet it. So you just have to learn how to deal with > it. You mean that we have to learn how to deal with *your* definition of being polite? -- To UNSUBSC

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:50:37PM +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > >That's precisely the problem with the whole concept: it > >leads to a scenario where you can't file bugs. Debian is not > >a social club, we're trying to create software. Accuracy isthe absolute > >priority in a technical forum. >

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:04:18AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:35:28PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Bull. People who don't have to cope with all that are people who > > aren't involved in Debian, or any other free software development > > project. > > How come th

Re: Acronym on About page of main site

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:23:35PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > Sorry for my ignorance: while translating the About page on the main > D-W site, I've run into the acronym BOF: > "Organising BOF discussions at Linux conferences, to promote > discussion of issues facing women and their involve

Re: Acronym on About page of main site

2005-06-18 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 18/06/2005, at 4:27 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: * Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:06:18 16:23 +0930]: Sorry for my ignorance: while translating the About page on the main D-W site, I've run into the acronym BOF: BOF == Birds of a Feather It's basically a somewhat informal meeting wh