Re: A song

2005-04-02 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:09:37PM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote: > It is nice to have a song, but the content is not unimportant. > > Am Samstag, 02.04.05 um 08:13 Uhr schrieb Erinn Clark: > > >We can't stand LILO, all love GRUB > >Welcome to the Debian Women club > > Even those not loving Grub are

Re: [bp-editores] Re: Bug#302572: Fortunes-es contains offensive quotes that should be in fortunes-es-off

2005-04-03 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:09:05PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > --- Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > please do it outside the bug report (preferably in > > the 'debian-women' > > list?) and open a new bug pointing out the quotes > > you all feel offensive > > PGP-signed

Re: A song

2005-04-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:39:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.02.1423 +0200]: > > Now, who's gonna write the music, sing those vocals and produce > > an .ogg file? ;) > > Oh no, not again. :) Hm, what

Re: install party in paris

2005-04-27 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:15:21PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > > You can be like my husband and me, jabbering to each other via the Net > -- from either side of the bed... ...and I always thought _I_'m a nerd :) Almut (feeling utterly old-fashioned now -- sometimes still relying on good ol'

Re: Pre-RFA : lifelines, geneweb and poedit packages

2005-06-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:56:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Erinn Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:06:11 08:18 +0200]: > >> Last, but not least, a few more (wo)manpower to my maintenance team > >> for shadow would also help. Bug triage th

Re: Pre-RFA : lifelines, geneweb and poedit packages

2005-06-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:42:48PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Good idea. IMHO, the best thing to do for you is subscribing to the > team mailing list: OK, done so. I guess it's best to just watch things for a while.. and dip my toes in the water, to get a feel for how cold it really is,

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: Digging Up An Intro

2004-07-14 Thread Almut Behrens
Hi everyone, On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:09:55PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > And -h shows me that -x should make it threat the pattern as regular > expresion but it does not work... > > apt-file -x search bin/dig$ > > ...does not return anything. IMO time to report a bug. The problem seems t

Re: Website beta trial

2004-07-23 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:29:33PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2004 6:28 pm, Amaya wrote: > > Zazu is working on a beta look for our "corporate" site. > > > > http://www.opensource-knowhow.com/amaya/ > > > > Please send us feedback :-) > > > > Ok, I'm confused. Erinn is a

Re: Debian-women support?

2004-07-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:44:37PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > What I don't really understand (but I'm opened to > understand.) is why this should be a *fight*... I think many of us here have made the experience that being a woman in IT at least sometimes needs some fighting, if you

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

Recruiting volunteers - or, why should I become a DD?

2004-08-04 Thread Almut Behrens
Hi everyone, I guess I'm probably going to get beaten from all sides, get accused of being a troll, or simply be ignored, for this attitude of mine. So, if it helps, let me mention up front that I do not intend to offend anyone, even if my wording may sound a little provocative at times. It's jus

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

2004-08-10 Thread Almut Behrens
Hi everyone, looking for things in Debian that might fit my personal skills and motivation profile, I browsed through http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/ And - although the list seemed rather short compared to what I would've expected - I actually found an item (titled "Make ifupdown stateless"), wh

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

2004-08-11 Thread Almut Behrens
Thanks for the detailed replies. Not much to add, really -- just a few random comments below. To keep things concise, I munged the responses. On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:52:26PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > Anyway, I don't know if you got the Debian source package (apt-get > source ifupdown

Re: On debian lists, we cc if asked

2004-08-14 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:23:18AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > I know some of you are new to debian lists, so you should take a look > the docs at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ some time soon. Please > pay close attention to the code of conduct: I'm rather saddened that > some replies to me wer

Re: On debian lists, we cc if asked

2004-08-15 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:45:42AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Why is pointing something out automatically "patronizing" to this > list? debian-women is the most rude and hostile list I've encountered > for years. It's the tone. Probably the same thing that made you infer from my reply (and other

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

2004-08-15 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:50:09PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > OK, but if I am writing my usual clear native English, there is little > or nothing that I can do to avoid misinterpretation of my messages > without second-guessing everyone's reactions. That's clearly not > possible, so I ask for som

Male teaching methods? - was: Re: Women in FOSS at OSWC II

2006-02-26 Thread Almut Behrens
Hi all, (guess I haven't posted here for ages...) On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:06:47PM +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > > (snipped lots of good stuff) > > ... In that case, it turned out that his teaching methods were a > very male way of learning, and so the women had to go out on their > own a bit mor