Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Ana Guerrero a écrit : [...] >>> * Membership ends 24 months after they're given, or after the latest >>> participation in a vote arranged by the project's Secretary. Members >>> may retire themselves earlier, of course. >>> >> No, please, voting should be voluntary. >>

the relative scale of disasters

2008-05-15 Thread Helen Faulkner
Don't the major world events this last week just put things like SSH insecurities into perspective as being just not that big of a deal... I hope that any DDs or other Debian contributers in Sichuan Province or Burma (I guess the former is more likely), and their families, are safe and well. I a

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-04 Thread Helen Faulkner
Jorgen Schaefer wrote: > Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It seems to me that we are already in a situation where only the >> people who are really interested in, or informed about, a >> particular question are voting on it. > > And that's

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] > Put differently, here are a number of questions you should answer for > this to have merit: > * What should a non-DD contributor be doing before we consider him/her > eligible to vote? Well, presumably something that is equivalent (in effort? in some kind of mea

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:55:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > It just dawned upon me that it would be great to have unofficial votes > by non-debian-developers as a way to gage the broader debian communites > reponse to things. If debian is committed to its end users, a

Re: Debian Women Software Freedom Day activities

2005-09-08 Thread Helen Faulkner
Steve Langasek wrote: > Well, a formal announcement of the BSP is pending; and the rule on BSPs > is that the organizer gets to pick where it happens, so it's not too > late to move that to OFTC if it's agreed that's a better option. > It seems this has been done. The Debian Women bugsquashing

Re: Debian Women Software Freedom Day activities

2005-09-08 Thread Helen Faulkner
Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Helen Faulkner wrote: > >> 1) [...] #debian-women-new on oftc [...] > > >> 3) [...] #debian-bugs channel on freenode [...] > > > Is it really a good idea to have these on separate networks? I think > that some one the &

Debian Women Software Freedom Day activities

2005-09-07 Thread Helen Faulkner
(Apologies to those who receive this multiple times - I wanted it to reach a wide audience. Replies only to -project please, unless there is something specific to another list that is more appropriate to discuss there.) Hi everyone, The Debian Women project is celebrating Software Freedom Day [1

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Helen Faulkner
Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: [...] I haven't looked at any earlier IRC DPL candidate debates, so I can't compare if this was better or worse. Earler debates may have been "easier" due to the lower number of participants. I strongly suspect th

IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi All, Having just run the 2005 DPL IRC debate (and a stressful experience it was too), Martin Krafft and I would like to get feedback on what people thought of the debate and how it was run. Suggestions for future debates will be very welcome, not that I am planning to volunteer to do that again

Re: DPL debate 2005: 19 March 2005, 23:00 UTC

2005-03-04 Thread Helen Faulkner
David Moreno Garza wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:37 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: [...] This year's DPL debate will take place on Saturday, 19 March 2005, at 23:00 UTC[0]. It will last for two hours. The meeting will take place on the Freenode IRC network[1], using two channels: Won't there be a

Re: Roles and responsibilities of the FTPmaster team.

2005-02-19 Thread Helen Faulkner
Matthew Garrett wrote: Last year, the DPL asked me to look into writing descriptions of what various teams in Debian were responsible for, and what their day to day activity involved. I performed some interviews at the time, and then promptly failed to get around to writing them up. The current dis

Re: New Front Desk members

2005-01-30 Thread Helen Faulkner
Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: Ugh. English has no gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, which means that the use of "he" and "his" for an unspecific third party assumes nothing about his gender. Well, actual

Re: New Front Desk members

2005-01-30 Thread Helen Faulkner
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt and Brian Nelson have recently joined the Front Desk. I'm currently giving them some training and I have also written documentation on the activities of the Front Desk. The documentation is available from http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nm/trunk/doc/ It'

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-14 Thread Helen Faulkner
Floris Bruynooghe wrote: I'd prefer to make this a polite "no" as well. I don't think debian should have any adds, let alone some that can't be controlled at all. Futermore it would create lots of trouble. Just think about the number of emails of random people we get on -project about totally

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Helen Faulkner
From: Craig Sanders meekness isn't about bullying. it's (partially) about perceiving bullying whether it's really there or not. it is a disability which varies in severity from being mildly shy to being socially crippled..it is not the fault, or responsibility, of non-meek people, any more t