Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-03 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 07:38:44AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org [2015-04-03 04:52 +0200]: Consequently, I am in favour of a recognition mechanism that values both cash donations and service donations against the same scale, yielding a

Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-03 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:10:11PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org [2015-04-03 08:57 +0200]: I'm prepared to accept pro-forma invoices from commercial organizations, based on their published pricing. Although it could be argued that 1RU/1Gbps of

Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org [2015-04-03 08:57 +0200]: I'm prepared to accept pro-forma invoices from commercial organizations, based on their published pricing. Although it could be argued that 1RU/1Gbps of hosting is the same no matter the location of the data centre, the

Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-02 Thread Luca Filipozzi
, etc.) to Debian, being able to offer ongoing acknowledgement (ie, prominent webpage such as /partners) is the single most effective tool in my toolbox (others being coordinated press releases, blog postings, and member benefits). Consequently, I am in favour of a recognition mechanism that values

Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: I do not find it antithetical to FLOSS principles to acknowledge, publically, the contributions that organizations provide to Debian, be they academic institutions such as MIT or corporations such as Bytemark. Random thought, it might be

Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org [2015-04-03 04:52 +0200]: Consequently, I am in favour of a recognition mechanism that values both cash donations and service donations against the same scale, yielding a platinum/gold/silver/bronze type ranking that is reassessed annually.

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
out was due to time pressure and just pushing things, which may have alienated some people. In the context of Debian partners, we do not have this time pressure and we don't have the ability to drive this to completion, unless delegated. Obviously, nobody would be interested to go against

Re: non-financial donations (was: call for help: partners program)

2015-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Wise p...@debian.org [2015-03-16 12:52 +0100]: Re financial donations, I'd personally like to see more focus on something like having 20k or more individuals donating $10 a year and most of them listed on contributors.d.o, as opposed to turning Debian into more of an

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-16 10:39 +0100]: I think that it is the role of the DPL to break ties in that context, under Make any decision for whom noone else has responsibility.. Of course, that should be done after hearing opinions, including from teams such as the

Re: non-financial donations (was: call for help: partners program)

2015-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:33 PM, martin f krafft wrote: If Debian had a wishlist, we could let partners join by donating hardware on this list — until the need is higher and we cannot wait and have to buy the hardware ourselves, so this would need to be actively managed. We have a hardware

non-financial donations (was: call for help: partners program)

2015-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-16 09:45 +0100]: Also note that one of the tricky parts of the partners role is the ability to consider non-financial contributions (e.g. hardware, hosting, sprint hosting, etc.). This is largely orthogonal, but must not be forgotten

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
fundraising) already looking at ourselves as that, at least when we take a step back, so I'd say that you can check this off. This was obvious in the discussion around a CRM, which we'll need desperately… 2) revitalize the partners team … and which I'd introduce as point 2.5). In fact

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org [2015-03-16 07:55 +0100]: Please let me know if you need something from me. I would like to know how the procedure will be between now and then. Let's make it easy and say up-front that we will not allow a sponsor to gain influence over project

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
, and then discuss with the DPL and the project which ones we are willing to give to sponsors? Also note that one of the tricky parts of the partners role is the ability to consider non-financial contributions (e.g. hardware, hosting, sprint hosting, etc.). This is largely orthogonal, but must not be forgotten

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
people. In the context of Debian partners, we do not have this time pressure and we don't have the ability to drive this to completion, unless delegated. Obviously, nobody would be interested to go against the majority, but knowing that there won't be consensus on everything, one still needs

Re: call for help: partners program

2015-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
) revitalize the partners team … and which I'd introduce as point 2.5). In fact… 3) discuss merging both efforts when they are both in a sufficiently good shape. … I wouldn't do it this way. Please let me propose an alternative idea that I think could get us further faster without disrupting DebConf

call for help: partners program

2015-02-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Debian has a partners program (see https://www.debian.org/partners/). It is used to thank and advertise organizations that are supporting or helping us. Examples include: - hosting Debian infrastructure, or providing services used by Debian - providing hardware (or plans to buy hardware

Re: Partners

2010-12-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Quoting from a freshly created http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines # Current Debian trademark policy states: To be fair to all businesses, we insist that no business use the name Debian in the name of the business, or a domain name of the business. * ongoing work on the Draft of the

Re: Partners

2010-12-19 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Jonathan: On Saturday 18 December 2010 02:06:27 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Please keep this discussion on-list, that is debian-project@lists.debian.org, and avoid top-posting (http://idallen.com/topposting.html). On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:51:50AM +, anthony budd wrote: If a system

Re: Partners

2010-12-19 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:49:09PM +0100, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Humm... don't think so. Building, say, a Debian Professional distribution would indeed be a Debian's trademark violation and that's probably what the original poster was asking to do. Of course, if the pro version was also

Partners

2010-12-17 Thread anthony budd
Hi, I was looking at your website on the partners program page, and i was wondering. Does being a partner give the right to sell Debian? Or if not do you offer a program in which a business can sell Debian for a commission? Many thanks, Anthony

Re: Partners

2010-12-17 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:36:06PM +, anthony budd wrote: I was looking at your website on the partners program page, and i was wondering. Does being a partner give the right to sell Debian? Or if not do you offer a program in which a business can sell Debian for a commission? Debian

Re: Partners

2010-12-17 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:12:37PM +, anthony budd wrote: But is it not the case that if someone sold your OS for any price yet downloaded it for free would infringe the copyright law? No, because the software you download is made availabe under a free license, see the previous links and

Re: Partners

2010-12-17 Thread anthony budd
17, 2010 at 10:36:06PM +, anthony budd wrote: I was looking at your website on the partners program page, and i was wondering. Does being a partner give the right to sell Debian? Or if not do you offer a program in which a business can sell Debian for a commission? Debian is free

Re: Partners

2010-12-17 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Please keep this discussion on-list, that is debian-project@lists.debian.org, and avoid top-posting (http://idallen.com/topposting.html). On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:51:50AM +, anthony budd wrote: If a system could be arrnaged what would be the terms? Also could a pro version be made. When I

Re: Partners

2010-12-17 Thread anthony budd
If a system could be arrnaged what would be the terms? Also could a pro version be made. When I say made I just mean make it look diffent with minor changes. So that people can buy a new and inovative product. On Friday, December 17, 2010, Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Dec

Project of New Arabic Television Satellite Channel ( Partners )

2004-12-18 Thread Shazir
Dear Mr. Abdalla ElNaser, This has reference to the upcoming channel from Arab Enterprise. We at Essel Shyam India provide Uplinking, Playout DSNG services for TV Channels. We are associated with all the major channels in India. We wanted to know about the status of the project and

Project of New Arabic Television Satellite Channel ( Partners )

2004-02-17 Thread Abdalla ElNaser
 Looking for partner for Project of New Arabic Satellite Television Looking for partner for Project of New Arabic Satellite Television and/or Radio Channel for ADVERTISING. Our TV and Radio channels will be interesting in Arab and Medal East (Travel, Decoration, Arab Wedding, Fashions,

Project of New Arabic Television Satellite Channel ( Partners )

2004-01-26 Thread Abdalla ElNaser
Arab Enterprise Television Radio (AESAT)URL: http://aesat.tk Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--- Dear madam/Sir, We are planning to building a new Arabic Satellite Television and/or Radio Channel for ADVERTISING.We