Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

2013-04-22 Thread Debian FTP Masters
The following changes to the debian-maintainers keyring have just been activated: chopin.si...@gmail.com Full name: Simon Chopin Added key: 19FBC4D3DAE94406B13A9DDE19755664855E7273 mar...@bluegap.ch Full name: Markus Wanner Added key: F5064876DFE1DAD413F4D4ABE8682D1B3F31E9B3

Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23

2013-04-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, as I wrote during the campaign, I plan to continue the DPL helpers initiative. My "vision" for it is a team that drives or monitors important changes inside the project. That team would be informal (similarly to the QA team): everybody can feel welcomed, "join", have various/different lev

Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Hi all, I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times. Currently, our logo is not a registered Trademark, but is considered (and treated by our current Trademark policy) as a "common law" trademark, in that

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late > February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times. > > Currently, our logo is not a registered Trademark, but is considered > (and tr

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Brian, Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late > February, and the issue of our Logo has come

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:13:24PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? Both are now open-use. The only non-DFSG free logo would be the bottle logo, ISTR. (the font is

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather > > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? > Both are now open-use. I was interested which logo was suggested to become a registered Trademark. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenk

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? Yes, the swirl alone. > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I have been helping to

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather > > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? > Yes, the swirl alone. Could it be trademarked? I thought that because of its unfortunately common origin there is so many of exist

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 21:26:18 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-03-26, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > TL;DR: we've been invited to participate into GNOME Outreach Program for > > Women and I'd like to accept the invitation. To maximize impact, though, > > we need mentors and topics to complemen

Re: [dpl-helpers] Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23

2013-04-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("[dpl-helpers] Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23"): > I've put the agenda on titanpad[1]. If you are listed on one of the > pending actions, it would be great if you could describe its status, > and the possible points needing discussion on titanpad (That should

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late >> February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times. >> >> Currently, our

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late > >> February, and

Re: Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23

2013-04-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/04/13 at 21:34 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > As previously announced, the next meeting is tomorrow. [0] > [0] April 23, 17 UTC: date -d @1366736400 ... on #debian-dpl (irc.debian.org) Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > >> > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather >> > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? >> Yes, the swirl alone. > > Could it be trademarked? I thought tha

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I have been helping to fi

Re: [dpl-helpers] Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23

2013-04-22 Thread Nathan Handler
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > As previously announced, the next meeting is tomorrow. [0] > I've put the agenda on titanpad[1]. If you are listed on one of the pending > actions, it would be great if you could describe its status, and the possible > points needing discuss

Re: Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23

2013-04-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:34:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > For that reason, I think that the current name of "DPL helpers" carries a > suboptimal idea (esp. since some people have been joking about it being "DPL > slaves/minions"). It's not about helping the DPL, but about helping the > p