Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:16:05AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 13. Februar 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I can confirm that at DebConf03 in Oslo I have heard rumors about a > > company with no name intending to base a distribution with no name upon > > Debian. > > sure that wasn't De

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 18:40 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [...] > Although I'd like to hear your comments before deciding, my advice is to > accept the invitation and have Debian join OSI. [...] +1 -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.

Re: Bug#658209: DEP 5: last call before closing.

2012-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > while you suggested that I go ahead without your review if it does not > come by two week-ends, please let me know if you would like to extend > that time. No, that's fine, don't wait for me. It will either happen by Friday or I think we should move forward anyway. --

Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 13. Februar 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > I can confirm that at DebConf03 in Oslo I have heard rumors about a > company with no name intending to base a distribution with no name upon > Debian. sure that wasn't DebConf4 which had a session with that very topic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

DEP 5: last call before closing.

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:14:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Are there other blocking issues with this DEP ? If not, I will mark it > > accepted after two week-ends. > > I have some lingering concern that the spec isn't sufficiently clear and > precise, and I

Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:32:41AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > and may be also "Mark S" -- I believe U. was kinda conceived at debconf > 2003 or so ;-) I can confirm that at DebConf03 in Oslo I have heard rumors about a company with no name intending to base a distribution with no name upon

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-13 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
On 02/13/2012 01:10 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - OSI history is intertwined with ours and we share a common heritage: > the DFSG. Having the actors interested in such a document work more > closely together is, IMHO, desirable. > > (As a side note on this: ours and OSI's version of DFSG

OSI affiliation

2012-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Dear project members, as you might have heard post-FOSDEM, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is opening up to an affiliate membership structure [1,2]. As I've already mentioned in [3], representatives of OSI have approached me to know if Debian is interested into joining. I'd like to discuss with

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-13 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:38, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > (also, unrelated to me, just a suggestion for this campaign: it would > be good to get a quote from Eben Moglen about his freedombox talk at > Debconf10 and the impact it had, considering how the FreedomBox > foundation is heavily debian-p

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-13 Thread Guido Trotter
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:38, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > In this thread? :) > And I think could be better to -project instead that debconf-discuss > (I've just set reply-to accordingly). > Or, if you prefer send me a private reply at madamezou@d.o > During Debconf9 I gave a talk about our projec