mages
aren't linked from our homepage.)
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Schmehl
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
Hi!
As many of you might have noticed, our weekly newsletter died more or
less some time ago[1]. Considering that to be a great loss and a shame for a
project as large as Debian, I think it's high time to resurrect it!
Guessing that it might take a bit of time to get things rolling again,
the ai
Hi!
* Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070808 18:44]:
> I've heard from people who really like reading my blog posts on Planet
> Debian, and people who really hate them.
[..]
> So, I've removed the feed. Old posts should roll off the end in a day or
> two, or if there's some sense of urgency,
oned, I'm quite busy but willing to help you regarding
"publicity" -- perhaps it would be better, if you tell me what you would
like to know exactly? Publicity is a wide field, and by asking him some
more specific questions, you save me some work and will get your answers
sooner :)
Hi!
* Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070627 15:06]:
> > The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten
> > years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in
> > celebrating this a bit? What would be an appropriate way?
> I know it's a bit boring answer, b
Hi!
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070621 09:40]:
> > Actually, it's totally unthinkable that a non-profit organization could do
> > this kind of deal, in which Microsoft pays you to perform hara-kiri by
> > losing the right to distribute GPLv3 software. This is exactly what a
> > positio
Hi!
* Jorge Pérez Lara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070614 18:17]:
> It's true Debian is going to dead It's impossible, if you dead, LINUX is
> going to dead
Not now, in not in forseeable future ;)
May I ask, why you are asking?
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
Hi!
* Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070502 01:03]:
> I notice that Debian Weekly News is still called Debian Weekly News,
> even though it is not published weekly. Perhaps we should consider
> changing the name to something like the Debian Newsletter?
Or find more volunteers to contri
Hi!
* Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070417 14:10]:
> Like Frans, I wonder why another list is needed. debian-devel-announce is
> OK from my point of view. The day where it's cluttered with announces of
> downtime, we can probably reconsider the question.
Let's have a look...
> > . alp
Hi!
* Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070410 08:19]:
> (There are many news items more or less just quoting the release
> announcement,
Actually it's often considered to be a good sign if your announcement is
quoted in a news item (not extensive reviews), because that means that
a) your
Hi!
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070328 14:32]:
> > 42nd time: you have not been expelled. And no, I don't want to hear
> > again that it's the same.
> Right, you don't want to hear, just like i was not banned from the lists in
> december, right ?
No, you haven't been banned, neither bac
Hi!
Debian got again invited to represent itself with a booth in the
.org-Pavillion at the LinuxWorld Conference and Exposition Korea [1],
which will take place 20th tp 23rd of June in Seoul.
But I can't find local volunteers to organize and man a booth. If you
would like to help us by having fu
#x27;t have a copyright on the term "APT" itself, so they are free
to use it. Anyway thanks for mailing us!
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Schmehl,
Debian Developer and spokesman
PS: As far as I know It would still be okay for them to use the term
"APT" even if we had a tradem
Hi!
* Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070223 11:50]:
> > There are no technical solutions for social problems.
>
> This meme is often repeated, but I don't think it is entirely true.
>
> As an example, consider couples who sleep in the same bed, under the
> same blanket. They often complain
Hi!
Sorry, forgot to mention one thing:
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070213 11:54]:
> You are aware that most of our elections are done this way,
Yes, I know.
> we only use hashes in the tally sheet for leader elections?
Or in other words: I 100% of the votes regarding persons, we hav
Hi!
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070213 11:54]:
> I don't think I want anyone who fears the idea of public disagreement to
> sit two years in a committee that arbitrates social conflicts. [..]
Neither do I. That's why I want it to be possible to not vote for such a
candidate without him k
Hi!
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070212 12:17]:
> > > + The next two weeks are the polling period during which
> > > + Developers may cast their votes. Votes in social committee elections
> > > + are made public after the election is finished.
> > And why shall votes become public? Wha
Hi!
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070213 04:28]:
> >> + The next two weeks are the polling period during which
> >> + Developers may cast their votes. Votes in social committee
> >>elections
> >> + are made public after the election is finished.
> > And why shall votes become publi
Hi!
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070212 03:32]:
> + During the following month, any Developer may nominate
> + themselves as a candidate member of the Social Committee.
> + Every such nomination must be seconded by one other developer.
Any specific reason for having a full month as nomi
Hi!
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 20:42]:
> I'm seeking for a source of the 3D swirl that was used for instance at
> http://www.wordit.com/catalog/images/debian_swirl_mousepad.jpg
> prefered as SVG graphics if available, bug reasonable resolution
> (800x600) PNG might do as well
[ nice mail, attempt of a translation for non german speakers follows ]
* nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070208 20:03]:
> Liebe DebianerInnen,
> [..]
Dear Debianists and Debianistas,
I would like to thank you in advance for 'Etch'. Kudos to you.
Thanks to everyone who give their time, work and love
Hi!
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070127 09:26]:
> After reading about various issues that arise in Debian on a social level, I
> thought about a possible solution: a Developer BTS. [..]
Reminds me of a thing we had here in europe... It was called
"pillory" and didn't worked out very well.
Hi!
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061209 00:01]:
> Thanks for your interest. We are not sure yet, how long it will take to
> sort things out, but we will get back to you.
Note to myself: Don't send semi-automated responsed to lists /
discussion mails.
S
Hi!
Thanks for your interest. We are not sure yet, how long it will take to
sort things out, but we will get back to you.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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Hi!
* Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061017 17:53]:
> [snip]
> > we usually say: "We require a donation for the DVD" and
> > leave the amount to the person taking the DVD.
> [snip]
> I like that idea. It means that people could give you a larger donation
> if they wanted (e.g. $10 or $100). You
Hi!
With etch to be released "really soon now" (well... mor ore less ;) many
of us will be in the need of listing new features and other nifty stuff
etch will bring to our users; be it DDs invited to give a speach or
journalists writing articles.
Since it's quite hard to search all those nice thi
Hi!
* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060718 16:31]:
> So if one does a custom dvd release of debian one must include source
> or make and keep it available for 3 years. By that reasoning anyone
> distributing only binary images is in breach of the GPL.
FWIW: That's what we do, when c
Hi!
* Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060717 23:27]:
> Because I suppose that if I made up my own "modified Debian" and I'm
> sticking it to a magazine and label it "Debian Sarge, enhanced", I could
> be sued for that. I SHOULD BE SUED FOR THAT.
If we promise to sue you, if you do suc
Hi again!
* Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060717 18:51]:
> > That is still false. People's erroneous beliefs do not entitle them
> > to anything.
> This is not about entitlement. This is about Debian's failure to react to a
> misuse of its trademarks.
Please, it is not a misuse of ou
Hi!
* krot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060408 20:25]:
> Good afternoon! Prompt where it is possible to find diff.gz for
> assembly gcc 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? There Is such resource
> where are stored{kept} all diff.gz for all versions of source codes?
Please stop asking the same question aga
IT. Joerg Jaspert pointed out [11], that he and Alexander
Schmehl were quite successfull getting in contact with potential
sponsors. Alexander Schmehl promised to write a longer report about
that event soon.
Links:
5: http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0225-fosdem
6: http://www.grep.be/blog
Hi!
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 09:09]:
> I know that some non-Debian people actually ask questions like "I
> heard Debian has split and is dead, what will happen in the future?"
> From time to time, just because Debian's PR work sucks so much.
Any hints, ideas and feedb
Hi!
* Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060303 16:15]:
[ merchandising stuff for events ]
> The problem with that page is that most of the material is quite old. Even
> up to six years old!
> Debian tends to have quite a bit of old unmaintained stuff lying around.
> That said, this is not a proble
Hi!
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060302 22:40]:
> wow, those were cool. Any others? Ones that look more like
> advertising/marketing/promotional?
Like those?
http://www.debian.org/events/material#posters
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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Hi Sasa!
* Sasa Matejic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051213 17:15]:
> We have founded Linux Magazine project in march 2005.Our goal is to offer
> free hard copyes of Linux Magazine to it's members on their home address
> informing them about the news and events in Linux industry absolutely for
> free.Th
Hi!
* Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051214 14:23]:
> > Unless there are specific packages missing from disk 1 that you know are
> > needed for this market, the stock ISO seems like it would be fine.
> Out of curiousity, how do these magazines deal with distributing
> sources?
Don't know ho
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 08:34]:
> > I absolutely *hate* being forced to defend myself against this
> >crap and as a general rule, don't. But mob rule is one step too far.
> >...
> You started this thread with "Re:" in the subject but you are quoting
> nobody and I can't find th
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050427 16:11]:
> I confess, that I just searched for a couple of minutes for some kind of
> "finance report" of SPI or FFIS, but I coulnd't find one.
Should have searched a couple of minutes longer, just found it for SPI
;)
Y
Hi!
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050427 07:28]:
> I don't think that the amount of reimbursed money needs to be put in
> public and that -private would have been a better place instead.
I humbly object.
I confess, that I just searched for a couple of minutes for some kind of
"finance r
Hi!
* Yordan Zaykov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050114 00:30]:
> I just want to ask hay many CDs I need, to make a full install of
> debian 3.0r4.
Please ask those questions on the debian-user@lists.debian.org list in
the future.
However, the first disc should be enough. The packages on Debiancs disc
* Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 13:07]:
> > the Debian release after sarge will be called 'etch'.
> Who is etch? (I assume alsofrom Toy Story, but haven't seen it for a
> long time...)
See [1] for a picture.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
Links:
1: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041215 10:06]:
> > The decision should be taken by the answers on two questions:
> >
> > 1. Does it go with our principles?
> > 2. Does it add a benefit for our users?
> 3. Does it add a benefit for our developers / project?
Just a special case of item 2.
* Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041214 22:22]:
> Erm, we could always remove the google ads from the site if there was a
> problem.
Well... I think my posting had an other point, but I can't remeber
which. Sorry.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041214 10:31]:
> How much money are we talking about anyway? EUR 100 per month? Something
> like 20kEUR a year? Or more?
Does it make a difference?
The decision should be taken by the answers on two questions:
1. Does it go with our principles?
2. Does i
* Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041214 14:32]:
> Funny, do you have examples of where the gloom-and-doom scenario has
> happened to an open source project?
Once there was a GPLed game called "tuxracer". One guy told the
authors, how good their work was, and that they could sell it. The did
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041214 17:18]:
> > If no money changes hands, I would see this as a good thing too.
> Umh, don't we link to the consultants and CD vendors already?
Yes we do. And if we hear, that a CD vendor get's the paiment without
sending the CDs we kann remove him fr
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 18:14]:
> more money is always good.
AFAIK Debian has more money, than we can (usefully) spend (at our
current rate). I think that was pointed out just a feek weeks ago in
the "donate for e-Mail account" discussion.
I startet to use Debian, because
* Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 18:53]:
> > Maybe the next offer ist to place ads to the head or footer of each
> > distributed mail on our list server?
> And maybe we can consider each suggestion on a case-by-case basis and
> make a decision on a case-by-case basis.
Or maybe we shoul
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 21:40]:
> > http://www.google.de/search?as_q=debian%20linux
> > the first link is the "bring out the facts" lie-page by m$.
> OK, but you have used the normal GOOGLE search and
> not tried the Linux-Search-Page from GOOGLE.
>
> This makes the differe
* Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040611 17:44]:
> Umm... just wondering... what DVD images are you giving away?
Ask Joerg Jaspert who did most of building (and swearing) the DVD image.
Basically it is a tc1-based sarge for i386 and PowerPC.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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as you might have allready guessed: He is complaining that his website
is replaced by something about Debian and Apache.
I sent him a private mail, to contact his provider.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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* Dave Seff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040202 21:52]:
> Is this site down? I am timing out while trying to apt-get the CVS
> pachage.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2004/msg5.html
* Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031218 17:04]:
> Now that HP officially says it's doing Debian support, can we recommend
> them to european customers of that order of magnitude? Are there any
> other support people who could handle 10'000 installations?
>
> Or should DDs at trade shows rather
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030916 17:16]:
> I would like to ask for comments on this idea. Are people comfortable
> with organizations calling themselves " Debian Labs" assuming
> that they are doing Debian related work and generally conform to a set
> of guid
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