Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:26:34PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > At some point I don't think that this has nothing to do with Debian > exclusively, but with the way women are socialized and brought up, in > fear and low self esteem in many ways. Unfortunately some women do > need some encouragement b

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:59:51PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > The article linked to the mail message, which baffled me. More than > anything, isn't the message simply off topic? I don't know, maybe I > live in a fantasy land, but given the response on other technical > lists to off topic m

Re: Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Banck
Ronin, On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:23:56PM -0400, Pebcak wrote: > So one person complains with a lot of misquoting and taking things out > of context and you guys cave in and move the channel? Man, I'm sending > you some logs after I misquote and take things out of context too. I was > offended too

Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:51:43PM +, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > While I see your point, the fact that the channel has "debian" in the > name suggests that the channel has something to do with the Debian > Project. If I set up a website at debian-offtopic.com and filled it with > sexist jokes, Naz

Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:40AM -0800, Erinn Clark wrote: > * Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008:01:12 12:15 +0100]: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:08:16AM -0800, Erinn Clark wrote: > > > Anyway, time passed, we changed our official servers, and a lot of users &

Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:08:16AM -0800, Erinn Clark wrote: > Anyway, time passed, we changed our official servers, and a lot of users > did not follow from freenode. Well, it should be said that also most of the operators decided to care for both channels or stay on freenode. > So that's the h

Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:04:16PM +1100, Melissa Draper wrote: > I'm primarily an Ubuntu user, but I've run Debian in various places on my > home network for over a year, and what is currently my home server has been > exclusively Debian for about a year now. > > As part of my NY Resolutions, I

[Newsforge] Rachel App: Linux music geek

2005-08-13 Thread Michael Banck
ALSA on my own, using the Internet for info and help." http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/08/04/2014227.shtml?tid=75 cheers, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible d-w project: handling/help DWN editor

2005-07-31 Thread Michael Banck
urrent work-in-progress DWN. As I never remember the location of it, I click through from 'contribute' to 'Joey's private Website' and all the way down to the current issue. No need to use CVS for this if you only contribute once in a while. Michael -- Michael Banck De

Re: Video from Erinn and Magni's talk "Debian Women and Women in Free Software" at Debconf5 (URL)

2005-07-31 Thread Michael Banck
I think it would be really neat to have those available in a truely Free codec, and word is that OGG/Theora might even be better quality/compression wise. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Banck
ll then? But hey, they got regular releases, company backing and ISVs using their product to build on, so they must be on the wrong track, right? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: DW-Map

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:50:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > whatever you do will be insignificant, > but it is very important that you do it. Yeah, right. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnu autotools

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Banck
ght be handled more elegantly these days, though. (The autoconf-doc package is in non-free btw, so you might have missed it. It gives good advice on which macros are available and do what) Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.htm

Re: Bug#298755: www.debian.org: Unable to find Women@Debian project

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Banck
ebian.org/projects page where all the sub-projects (like doc, d-i, CDDs, ports etc.) are introduced with a small paragraph and a link to their page (wherever that may be). debian-women could be one of them. It is pretty non-intuitive to have all those projects listed under devel/. Michael -- Mich

Re: errors building a .deb

2005-05-07 Thread Michael Banck
nd how does this help QA? If I see a .diff.gz with 20 patches nicely intertwined into each other, I just rm -r the source tree and go for the next package. Unless I really have to hack on it, at which point I shake my fist in anger. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: errors building a .deb

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Banck
dpatch, quilt or cdbs' simple-patchsys. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debconf5 accommodation

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:13:48PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Debian Women, not Debian women? Well, that includes all of us, and > I am tempted to beg for space, since you won't snore, and them male > geeks will. :) Haha. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL P

Re: ITA - Basics

2005-02-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:56:21AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > There are several packages (at least one?) that I would like to adopt: > recently I saw fvwm-shell is orphaned and I am a devotee of fvwm. So I > know how to update the package, package it, attempt the ITA (never done > thát befo

Re: Tangential topic -- Was: Re: Sexist Behaviour in Debian Women

2004-12-16 Thread Michael Banck
I did not join #d-w earlier and will try to stay idle (mostly joined to not miss the meeting again) there, mostly. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html

Re: The prevailing Debian culture

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:23:43PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > What you will encounter in Debian, and free software development in > general, is nothing like you will encounter in the mundane > world. There will be an endless stream of accusations and > recriminations from other Debian develope

Re: The prevailing Debian culture

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > You don't have to like it, you have to put up with it, and deal with > > it in a rational manner *regardless* of how much you do or do not > > like it. > We HAVE to put up and deal with that every day in our

Re: unwritten "messages" was: On debian lists, we cc if asked

2004-08-15 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, MJ, all On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 07:47:27PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Ye gods, that title is in a fairly common neutral academic style! > (Well, I subbed "we" for "one" because it looked odd, but still...) 1. If you want to participate more than once in a Debian sub-community, it is appropriate

Re: We want your stories!

2004-08-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote: > If I understdand what Matt is meaning, they're posted on the > debian-newmaint mailing list. They are also reposted to debian-project at the time the people become Debian Developers, with a higher S/N ratio for this particular need

Re: How to volunteer for something on debian's todo list?

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:52:35AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > You'll also note at the bottom of that page that it says "To add or > remove items in this list, or to inform you have taken over a task, > please contact Josselin Mouette". Josselin is not online until early next week, btw. Micha

Re: What do you want to learn?

2004-08-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:45:12PM +0200, Brigitte Huebner wrote: > here ist a link I find really helpfull as an introduction to packaging: > http://www.schlittermann.de/deb-intern/dpkg/ > I's in German, but I wanted to share it with you anyway and I think > there are a few German-speaking people h

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:09:23PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > I hope that people won't feed the trolls I hope so, too. End of Discussion. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List/IRC climate issues

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Well, for what it's worth, I signed up to start the NM process yesterday. > > Anyway, this is where I'm at, for people who are interested: [...] Sounds like you did about everything right :) Michael

Re: What do you want to learn?

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Banck
Heya, On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:35:41PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > Akkana and I are not the only ones who have the impression that the NM > process is difficult. If it's not all that bad, then there appears to > be a bit of a perception problem. Because this isn't something that I > just pick