DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Debian Project Secretary wrote: | Period | Start| End| |+--+| | Nomination | Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | Saterday, March 7th, 2009 | | Campaign | Sunday, March 8th, 2009 | Saterday, March 28th, 2009 | | Vote | Sunday, March 29th, 2009 | Saterday, April 11th, 2009 | I suggest that potential DPL candidates start getting their platform ready. I would like to receive them before the campaign period start. As I've apparently volunteered to moderate the debate again,[0] it falls to me to remind prospective candidates to calculate their schedule for the week of the 21st-28th, and soon after they self nominate forward the times during that week which they can absolutely not debate as well as times that they'd rather not debate to me. [This will help me to avoid having to schedule the debate smack in the middle of some erstwhile candidate's coffin time.[0.577]] Those who have suggestions for alterations to the format can also make those known in a reply to this message (refer to last year's debate format[1] if you've forgotten what we did last year, suffer from amnesia or are incapable of forming long term memories or faking them by the creative use of google and blogs). People who'd like to help run the debate and/or collect questions can also volunteer with a message to -vote. Don Armstrong 0: I know I should heed my major professor's most important lesson learned from his military service: never be first, never be last, never volunteer... but I always seem to fall asleep before the conclusion is reached. 0.577: Deity forbid that the day star attack you.[1.618] 1: http://svn.donarmstrong.com/don/trunk/projects/debian/dpl_debates/debate_rules_public.txt 1.618: Yes, for some reason I've adopted irrational footnote numbering. Don't ask why.[2.718] 2.718: Ok... it has something to do with NIH R01 grant deadlines and collaborators who are incapable of using LaTeX+BibTeX, and want to make me (more) insane instead. [3.14] 3.14: Imagine a pithy footnote here. I've given up and gone to the pub. -- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Release files
Hi small change done to our Release[1] files today: From now on (next dinstall at 01:52 UTC) they will also list the Contents files for the various architectures. [1] Those: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release -- bye, Joerg * libpng2 no libpng3 no why ? because no yes no yes no yes bullshit no yes no yes no yes stop ? no when someday beep beep beep beep (Closes: #157011) -- Christian Marillat maril...@debian.org Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:41:58 +0200 pgpaOJnMf7qHN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:10:38AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Debian Project Secretary wrote: | Period | Start| End| |+--+| | Nomination | Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | Saterday, March 7th, 2009 | | Campaign | Sunday, March 8th, 2009 | Saterday, March 28th, 2009 | | Vote | Sunday, March 29th, 2009 | Saterday, April 11th, 2009 | I suggest that potential DPL candidates start getting their platform ready. I would like to receive them before the campaign period start. As I've apparently volunteered to moderate the debate again,[0] it falls to me to remind prospective candidates to calculate their schedule for the week of the 21st-28th, and soon after they self nominate forward the times during that week which they can absolutely not debate as well as times that they'd rather not debate to me. [This will help me to avoid having to schedule the debate smack in the middle of some erstwhile candidate's coffin time.[0.577]] Those who have suggestions for alterations to the format can also make those known in a reply to this message (refer to last year's debate format[1] if you've forgotten what we did last year, suffer from amnesia or are incapable of forming long term memories or faking them by the creative use of google and blogs). People who'd like to help run the debate and/or collect questions can also volunteer with a message to -vote. I'd like to raise the question of whether these IRC debates are really something we should have. I know Don and the panelists put a lot of time and effort into making the debates happen, which is part of why I ask the question: is it really worth all this effort? What do we get out of a three-hour real-time IRC debate that we don't already get from the candidates' platforms and three weeks of discussion on debian-vote? All I see that we get is a measure of how comfortable the candidate is with (English-language) IRC as a medium, which is just not that interesting to me as a factor in deciding who I'm going to vote for as DPL. Is it to other people, or are others getting something else out of this that I'm overlooking? For the last two election cycles, I've ignored the IRC debate completely, and I don't feel that I missed anything. Am I mistaken? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
