Re: A Debian contributor StackOverflow

2013-04-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:18:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The Shapado software seems a little bit clunky (the formatting is weird in Iceweasel, it won't let me save a photo in the profile, and every edit to the profile apparently requires changing my password, which is weird). But the

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:52:18PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: OK from my reading of https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#For_Organizations_and_Companies it seems that Debian can be a participating project, without also being a financial sponsor. IE: We provide mentors and help

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:45:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I do not have trouble personally in spending the money on OPW but I would also see a similarly fair use of the GSoC org money to keep on sponsoring DebConf newbees and explicitly prefer women who apply for the support. FWIW, this

Re: A Debian contributor StackOverflow

2013-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:04:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I wonder if just using the same forum is a good idea, or if it would be better to create a separate contributor-focused platform. One thing I find attractive about using the platform for both is to perhaps help encourage/promote the

Aw: Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-05 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, Gesendet:Freitag, 05. April 2013 um 09:45 Uhr Von:Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu An:debian-project@lists.debian.org Cc:debian-wo...@lists.debian.org Betreff:Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women Hi, On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:52:18PM -0400, Brian Gupta

DebConf14 venue decision

2013-04-05 Thread Moray Allan
Today the DebConf team held the DebConf14 venue decision meeting, following our standard process https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Bid_process A decision was reached that DebConf14 will take place in Portland, USA. Thank you to the USA and Venezuelan bid teams for their work, and to everyone who

Re: DebConf14 venue decision

2013-04-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I just want to clarify for everyone -- Portland, Oregon (OR), since $ dict portland | grep 'U.S. city' | nl 1Portland, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas 2Portland, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota 3Portland, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon 4Portland, IN -- U.S. city in