Re: Inviting questions from SPI

2007-07-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
I see that you plan * An agressive increase in the number and quality of associate projects Question is: how are you planning to increase the _quality_ of associate projects? And how do you measure quality in the first place? -- Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39ยบ 49

Re: Inviting questions from SPI

2007-07-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
F/LOSS which seems to be the candy > the 'chicken hawkers' have to offer? For those of us not in the know, could you clarify what a "chicken hawker" is? In Wikipedia I find two definitions (one related to homosexuality and the other to war stance in a politician), neither of wh

Re: Copyright issues re Debian website

2008-03-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Perens wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Aren't most laws absurd? > It depends on how severe your spectrum disorder is. And on your jurisdiction. -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre "Estoy de acuerdo contigo en que

Re: Meeting log for 2008-12-17

2008-12-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
t; contributing members that do not bother to read let alone subscribe to > -general. It's easy to paint the bikeshed of what list to give notice to. It would be a lot better to have an answer to the actual gripe: > > > > For other kinds of resolutions there are of course

Re: Member communications II

2008-12-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > With all due respect this seems like a motion for the sake of having a > motion. It is a motion for the sake of the board's recent failures to fulfill member's expectations, I think. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.PlanetPos

Re: Multi-winner Condorcet, vs STV

2009-12-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
be cast with just pencil and paper -- which is the important part on which pencil and paper should be used. The result counting part is going to involve computers *anyway*, but since the input data (filled ballots) is available and verifiable, this is not a problem because different parties can have

Re: Google Gift

2012-11-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hilmar Lapp wrote: > Awesome! -hilmar Right. So instead of 37,510.86 we don't currently use for anything, there are now 47,510.86 in the bank we are not likely to use for anything either. Or did I misunderstand? > On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > Google's

Re: Google Gift

2012-11-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus wrote: > On 11/12/12 12:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Hilmar Lapp wrote: > >> Awesome! -hilmar > > > > Right. So instead of 37,510.86 we don't currently use for anything, > > there are now 47,510.86 in the bank we are not likely

Re: Removal of MadWifi as an associated project

2017-08-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Cock [2017-08-14 10:49]: > > Should some of the funds be kept back for future domain renewal > > fees, or are those covered from the ongoing SPI income? > > It's not very obvious but that's why I put the renewal of the domain > before the transfer of the funds, i

Re: Debian trademark, EAN, proposed letter, SPI heads-up

2018-04-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Ian Jackson wrote: > That's right. For your convenience my mail > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:53:34 +0100 > quoted the thing again. > There's one bugfix: "the the" should read "the". No bugfix for "anticpate" or "predjudice"? (I also wonder about "Nor do ... do so on Debian's behalf". Looks od