Re: Idea: debian representative @ conferences

Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ Please CC replies to me. ] > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, David N. Welton wrote: > > I had a random thought: why not institute a rule/program that only > > past Debian leaders may speak at conferences (except for debconf)? > What, a

Idea: debian representative @ conferences

be an incentive to hand over the reigns after a few years, if the cat herding weren't enough. Any takers, or does everyone vote for 'Daft'?:-) Just another random thought, -- David N. Welton Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/fre

Re: Bits from the DPL (travel & conferences)

resent us, but I think Debian needs some leadership. I want someone who is present, comunicative, and has some ideas about where to take the project. Maybe next year I'll start a 'draft Bruce' campaign;-) -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: ht

Re: integrity of elections

other than your enjoyment of a good flamewar. Even if you are right about something, being harsher than necessary is not helpful behavior. Of course Manoj isn't the only one who is guilty of this. I think we all do it at times, and we need to be mindful of it. -- David N. Welton Consu

debian unmanageable?

ys is for the Apache Software Foundation. I have been around Debian since 1997. If Debian happens to need an supreme and feared emperor-for-life, I'd be happy to volunteer. I want minions as part of the deal, though. Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/

Re: Spam

works well on an individual level. Spam filtering needs maintaining, and may generate false positives. A lot of people seem to have doubts as to whether it will work at a project level. > Talking to politicians is the most practical solution if you want to > talk about long term solutions. Great, but it will take a long-term time scale... -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/

Re: Spam

ou a long, long time. > but the situation is a bit better in Europe regarding the bribery > (but also getting worse, especially on EU-level). Maybe in some countries, but I wouldn't get too worked up about Europe being 'cleaner' than the US. -- David N. Welton Co

Re: Spam

Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:23:12AM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No. I _hate_ it when somebody cross-posts to a moderated list > > > I'm not a member

Re: Spam

ying if you got automated messages, your mail didn't get through, and so forth, but that doesn't happen. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/

Re: Debian Organization

on board. This might also have the potential to eliminate a certain category of whining... -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

k > unstable and could be released with a future release of debian. Debian's goals are not to provide ease of use at all costs. And our current packages aren't flexible enough, in my opinion, to provide goal number 2) out of the box. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedas

Re: Request for comments: use of project funds for hardware

or an S/390...) You can *maybe* get an RS6K for 2, but I think the 390 is much more. 2-3000 should get us a good Macintrash PPC box. -- David N. Welton http://www.prosa.it http://www.prosa.it/developers/davidw/ tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508

Re: [BALLOT] Social Contract Change Amendment

Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:44:41AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > So how do I vote to leave everything alone and not fool with it? > We went through a lot of effort passing the constitution and we > clearly have an ambiguity -

Re: pgp and gpg

HTF to make these things work. -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: pgp and gpg

4D/DFEAC4B9 created: 2000-01-20 expires: never trust: -/q sub 1024g/07014AC2 created: 2000-01-20 expires: never (1) David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Already signed by key E8332029 Nothing to sign with key E8332029 Key not changed so no update needed. @freddy [~] $

Re: On the lets-remove-nonfree-proposal

eywise). Never, ever underestimate how clueless people can be:-) (Just don't make it so that you are annoying to bright people in an attempt to also support the more clue-deprived). Ciao, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.

Re: Debian Critical Mass

This discussion DOES NOT belong on -devel, it belongs on -project. Thankyou for your cooperation, -- David N. Welton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pgp and gpg

\ --secret-keyring ~/.pgp/secring.pgp \ --default-key 'Your PGP ID' --sign-key 'Your GPG ID' But that only seems to work if it's on the same machine. Any ideas? -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.80

Re: ITPers should have Sponsors

ease move it over to -project?:-) Thanks, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Linux tag

do aside from look at the fields of "spargel". Ciao, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- To U

Re: why not replace individual programs? (xv)

n, I have to) Why don't you have a go at fixing/improving the free software? The worst that you can happen is that you will improve your hacking skills:-) Ciao, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.3

why not replace individual programs?

sults, and piss off a lot less people. Ciao, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email