Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-06 Thread Efrain Valles
thank you all for your input on this, it really helps energize our team I am sharing your thoughts in Spanish with the Ubuntu-ve team. this is what Ubuntu is about. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op zondag 04-04-2010 om 17:35 uur [tijdzone -0430], schreef Efrain > Valles: >>

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 04-04-2010 om 17:35 uur [tijdzone -0430], schreef Efrain Valles: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a > bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to > go out and

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-05 Thread Grant Bowman
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Efrain Valles wrote: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a > bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to > go out and promote Ubuntu in ou

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 02:46 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: > and mp3 libraries Pedant Alert: MP3 Libraries are Free Software. LGPL licensed. They are restricted because of patent abuses, not because of licensing. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-05 Thread Efrain Valles
Thanks to all on your ideas, it feels good for us not to feel alone. By reading all your ideas clearly, I get that making public the contributions to the FOSS world makes sense. maybe a series of blog posts, website article on software freedom and Ubuntu and cohesive ideas by key members in events.

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Dan Trevino
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Efrain Valles wrote: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a > bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to > go out and promote Ubuntu in ou

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Dan Trevino
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Michael Lustfield wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've seen this argument so many times... I'm sure you've all seen my > blog posting about it. In the tiny world I've seen of people that hold > an opinion that doesn't fight one or the o

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Lustfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen this argument so many times... I'm sure you've all seen my blog posting about it. In the tiny world I've seen of people that hold an opinion that doesn't fight one or the other I've seen it summed up as: ~'GNU is a tolerated evil. We all know

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Santiago Zarate
I dont want to flame... but sometimes, the problem becomes bigger when you actually *see* R.M.S. doing this. Then you see the followers, who only (and mostly) use nonsensical arguments. :/ You can come up with few good facts about why ubuntu is the way it is, or how things work, and/or tell them h

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Owens
Ubuntu-MA is home of the Free Software Foundation's HQ. We get on fairly well with the FSF on a personal level, though they have levelled criticism at us about Ubuntu containing non-free, I have in tern criticised the FSF in Boston of taking no positive action in the local community, they are far t

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Let them kindly know the default install of Ubuntu contains no nonfree > software. Depending on the semantics of "no nonfree", that is not necessarily the case. For instance, the linux-image-2.6.xx-foo packages still distribute modules com

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Efrain Valles wrote: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a > bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to > go out and promote Ubuntu in ou