Hi Sruthi
Since you've held various leadership positions in Debian before,
including being on the DebConf Committee, being chief Orga for DC23,
being on the Outreach team, Application Manager and a Community Team
delegate, I'm sure you've seen your fair share of both all the great
things that Debian brings to the world, and also the more unpleasant
things that we sometimes have to deal with.
Question 1:
With all your years of experience, what are the biggest things that
you've observed that hold us back in terms of making Debian more
diverse? What are the biggest problems, and also the most urgent issues
that need addressing?
Question 2:
If you could snap your fingers and bypass a GR and instantly change
anything in our constitution, what would that be?
Question 3:
In your platform you mention that Debian as a community is reluctant to
change most of the time, but my experience has been very different. I
see a large community that's very enthusiastic about change, but often
its difficult to figure out what the best way forward is, especially
when we have different camps that feel passionately about their
technical, social and ethical reasons for their stance. And I see you
referring to flamewars in your platform, these have been a source of our
biggest flamewars too.
So I would like to know, when and how has Debian been reluctant to
change as a community? Do you have any examples? And how can we be better?
Question 4:
The Debian Camp idea sounds really nice. How would you attract new
recruits to the camp? Is there some existing funnel/backlog of people
who are interested? Or is the plan to do some marketing in universities
and similar environments?
That's it for now, good luck!
-Jonathan
