Debian Women Software Freedom Day activities

2005-09-07 Thread Helen Faulkner
(Apologies to those who receive this multiple times - I wanted it to reach a wide audience. Replies only to -project please, unless there is something specific to another list that is more appropriate to discuss there.) Hi everyone, The Debian Women project is celebrating Software Freedom Day [1

Debian Science mailing list created

2005-07-30 Thread Helen Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, This is to let interested people know that the Debian Science mailing list [1] has been created. This list is aimed to encourage discussion about how best to use Debian as an operating system for science research and how to improve Debi

Re: Logs from the DPL debate posted, and a draft ballot

2005-03-21 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi Everyone, There is an error in the currently posted transcript for part 1 of the debate [1]. The following section, in "Managing DPL Duties and Life": AngusLees: I consider travelling as an extremely important factor of being DPL. Before nominating, I carefully considered the time I wil

DPL IRC Debate Time Change (Was: Re: DPL debate 2005: 19 March 2005, 23:00 UTC)

2005-03-08 Thread Helen Faulkner
martin f krafft wrote: [This should have gone to d-d-a in the first place too, sorry] (So should this - sorry!) Hello, world. This year's DPL debate will take place on Saturday, 19 March 2005, at 23:00 UTC[0]. It will last for two hours. The meeting will take place on the Freenode IRC network[1], u

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Helen Faulkner
Helen Faulkner wrote: > Please don't CC me. > I am on this list, and I therefore did not request to be CCd. > > Russell Coker wrote: [...] For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Helen Faulkner
Please don't CC me. I am on this list, and I therefore did not request to be CCd. Russell Coker wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:26, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who are very agressive or insulting

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
Malte Cornils wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 01:26 schrieb Helen Faulkner: I often find myself explaining to people how they can avoid attracting the attention of those who are likely to be unpleasant to deal with, and also repeatedly emphasising the fact that, despite some

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
SR, ESC wrote: to the people that see it for what it is: thank you, and i knew you would see it (like helen here, and others). OK, I should be clear here. From the point of view of behaviour in Debian lists that is intimidating to newcomers and especially people who are shy or not very thick-skin

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
Malte Cornils wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 00:40 schrieb Gunnar Wolf: [Person with *very* delicate skin quitting NM] I don't know (and don't want to, don't point me to it ;-) ) who advocated a person with such a delicate skin to enter NM. I mean, NM is for people who are _already_ somewhat i

Re: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

2005-01-22 Thread Helen Faulkner
Frank Küster wrote: "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Do you have any suggestions for other function graphing programs / libraries I could suggest to upstream? grace is a GPL'ed program that I use sometimes for interactive graph creation, but it can also be scripted.e Ideally t

Re: Bug#290666: ITP: kdoomsday - countdown timer panel applet for KDE

2005-01-15 Thread Helen Faulkner
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Helen Faulkner wrote: kdoomsday is a KDE panel applet that counts the time down to or up from a specified event. I'm the author of kdoomsday. I wrote it because I wanted to count down to an awaited event and, to my suprise, I couldn't find anything that would sit

Bug#290666: ITP: kdoomsday - countdown timer panel applet for KDE

2005-01-15 Thread Helen Faulkner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kdoomsday Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/kdoomsday/ * License : GPL Description : countdown timer panel applet for KDE kdo

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Helen Faulkner
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: [...] [0] Besides learning that there is still people in this world who seem to think that feminism is actually a solution to something. I am still amazed by that one. Thankyou for reminding us all, by demonstration, that the problems feminism tries to solve

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Helen Faulkner
Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:06:13PM +, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that is the main issue here. I would like to believe that Debian is capable of showing more respect for other people than including hotbabe in the distribution would indicate.

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi all, Hi all, I read all the thread and I noted you are forgeting a main problem about this package. In my point of view: First of all, it's a sexist package, sure. Putting a program on Debian in which you have pictures of nude women is VERY agressive to the most women. Yes, it's agressive to me