[Helen Faulkner]
> Well, for starters, maybe because too many people think that hacking
> sessions are the only way in which to work on Debian :)
...
> Some things that Debian Women could be more directly involved in, or
> have productive and focussed discussions about could include (I'm
> brainst
[Helen Faulkner]
> I think that the thing that Debian Women collectively has the most
> expertise in, is community building, in the FOSS world, with a group
> that is under-represented, or that generally needs encouragement to
> try joining that world. Women, ethnic minorities, the elderly,
> peo
[Helen Faulkner]
> List-Id:
>
> So if I want to filter out emails that were sent to the list and to
> me directly, but didn't actually make it through the list because
> they were spam or otherwise unwanted, I can use my own filters based
> on the List-Id email header to get rid of those e
[followups to d-newmaint please]
[Matthew Palmer]
> Making NM more of a mentoring+monitoring thing, instead of The Essay
> Test From Hell, would be a Great Thing. It appears that other AMs
> aren't entirely against the idea, either.
People keep complaining about the Essay Test from Hell, but I
[Jutta Wrage]
> I have heard "Bits Of Freedom" before, But I did not hear/read about
> "Birds of a Feather" before joining the Debian-Women IRC-Channel.
>
> Birds Of a Feather is defined as slang, but slang is not that, what
> people use (learn) normally, if not native speakers.
BOF is a ver
[Clytie Siddall]
> It's embarrassing to have to admit the mental loss through illness,
> but it's probably better than me giving up because I can't do it.
Goodness, don't blame yourself. I've got more Unix experience than
quite a lot of folks in the Debian community yet I can't figure out
tla.
[Bas Wijnen]
> I see many people saying that Debian is so rough, and luckily there's
> D-W which is much better. While there may be some truth in this (I
> do feel D-W is more friendly than Debian itself), I would be careful
> with saying such things in public.
Yeah, beware of self-fulfilling pr
[Clytie Siddall]
> Christine, which debian channel is this?
The Project's IRC presence is on irc.freenode.net, aka irc.debian.org.
In Debian contexts, you can usually assume that network. #debian on
Freenode is very large (800+ people) and busy. Perhaps 3 or 4 of the
many regulars have amassed
[Fabricio segfault Cannini]
> http://www.lesbian.mine.ru
I believe you misspelled ".nu".
(Yes, we know about that site.)
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[Christine Spang]
> Currently I read more fantasy than Sci-Fi (cough, sig) - LotR, Feist,
> George R. R. Martin and much of the like. I also am a big fan of a
> lot of thrillers - Clancy, Cussler, etc. - which aren't Sci-Fi but
> are often pretty tech-oriented.
That got me thinking. Given that t
[Patricia Jung]
> The people who write the best code I know write documentation
> alongside or even before coding: The code has to follow
> documentation, otherwise it's a bug :)
So, back in context of the current discussion ... we're not talking
about coders who write documentation, we're talkin
[Takayoshi Sasano]
> There are some projects to log IRC channels though, but they don't
> reach usability of mailman regarding quick overview of "threads".
There are good reasons not to publish IRC logs, so #debian-women
currently has a policy against doing so. I agree with the reasons,
particul
[Sacha Chua]
> Well, thanks to the ruckus we raised [...] they finally cancelled the
> thing.
Did anyone else notice the irony?
Through this whole bungled ordeal, PCS provided at least one female
future IT leader from the Phillipines (Sacha Chua) with the opportunity
to demonstrate her problem-s
[Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)]
> Projects and sub projects status, quick and flash
> news, syndication, there are lots of good stuff. :o)
If you need a bulletin board to let people know how you are doing on
projects and subprojects, this subject can always be revisited. But it
seems to
[Ricardo Mones]
> Two: harden filesystem permissions (don't make homes readable to all
> for example) or chroot users to their home upon connection.
The second answer is interesting, but incomplete. How do you tell ssh
to chroot users upon connection?
I have done this with a custom shell for an
[Almut Behrens]
> To be able to take a closer look, it seems I need to use "noweb" to
> retrieve the actual code (there is no regular source in the package).
> Never come across this before. At first glance it roughly looks like
> what I've heard about D. Knuth's Literate Programming -- some mixtu
[Andrew Suffield]
> I'm not convinced that this is a useful data point. Sounds like a
> sample with a built-in bias. Anybody who writes a "style guide"
> obviously has an axe to grind.
Er. You act as though the style guides she looked at talked about
nothing *except* gender pronouns. Do you
[Carla Schroder]
> But you almost make it sound like "if you really want in, you should
> be prepared to jump through any hoops." That's not realistic.
It *is* realistic, to a degree. But it leaves open the question of why
you would want "in". This has been mentioned before but deserves
reitera
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