Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Tristan Petersen
Pepijn, Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to quickly annotate screenshots or pdfs. Regards, Tristan > On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:41, Pepijn de Vos wrote: > > Another random idea, that is not a ripof

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Optimise payment

2014-02-11 Thread Tristan Petersen
In my humble opinion, elementary should strongly consider adding bitcoin as a donation option. It is very easy to make a donation from anyone in the world with bitcoin. Other payment options are more difficult. By the way, there was a thread on r/elementaryos about bitcoin donations, and it had

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] elementary, ubuntu, and debian

2014-02-05 Thread Tristan Petersen
Sergey I believe it. Thanks for the heads-up on the keynote, please let me know when it's uploaded. Cheers, Tristan On 5 February 2014, at 10:43 , Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: > Tristan, it's not that simple and fact is, Debian or even the upstream > projects are unlikely to be NSA-proof.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] elementary, ubuntu, and debian

2014-02-05 Thread Tristan Petersen
t; We are using Ubuntu as a base, we don't ship > ubuntu-desktop and honestly that's where most of the criticism to > Ubuntu's lack of privacy concerns lies - the Amazon in the Dash > thing. We don't have that, so I don't really see how switching to > Debian wou

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?

2014-02-05 Thread Tristan Petersen
Very nice! I have been looking into firefox OS myself. I'd love to use a phone that has open source as its base. I looked into the blackphone, but unfortunately they seem to be more of the same - their recent update to the FAQ on their website actually makes me completely forget about them now.

[Elementary-dev-community] elementary, ubuntu, and debian

2014-02-05 Thread Tristan Petersen
Sergey Glad you touched on security & privacy concerns. I am new to the elementary dev community, but I am wondering if there has been any talk among the team in this regard. I was drawn to elementary for its simplicity and beauty but at the same time I have strong concerns about security and p

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Tristan Petersen
twell" On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Tristan Petersen wrote: Greetings, I have just recently joined this list and am eager to help out this community. I have had a lot of experience with Perl and C in the past, but I have not used them for a while and am very rusty there. I'

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Tristan Petersen
Greetings, I have just recently joined this list and am eager to help out this community. I have had a lot of experience with Perl and C in the past, but I have not used them for a while and am very rusty there. I've also toyed around a bit with Mac OS X and iOS development (but have never m