Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:12:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? I personally don't plan to have neither a DPL board, nor a 2IC. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/12/2010 10:55 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I personally don't plan to have neither a DPL board, nor a 2IC. why not? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:12:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Heyho, > > a little question to all those up for the next DPL: > > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? I don't plan on doing so, no. We've had a few DPLs in the past who did so, but I don't see a significant difference in p

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:14:42PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > >I personally don't plan to have neither a DPL board, nor a 2IC. > why not? First of all because I don't think it is needed, then because we lack evidence that having either a DPL board or a 2IC actually improves the outcome of a DP

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
thanks for the detailed answer, good summary of what is also my impression (that i have about it, as an unqualified observer). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-system

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:12:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Heyho, > > a little question to all those up for the next DPL: > > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? > If so: Who? And why this/those? Hi Joerg, If I understand correctly, the 2IC is another person that gets the email

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:47:53PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > In fact, if you think about it, the proposal of a DPL board / 2IC just > gives a formal status to something that should be normal, > i.e. interaction among DPL and people knowledgeable/competent on > specific topics/tasks. FWIW

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > a little question to all those up for the next DPL: > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? > If so: Who? And why this/those? I don't plan to take a 2IC or a DPL team, in the sense of someone else receiving lea...@. I do plan, however

Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, this question goes to all candidates: The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, ffis, debian.ch, etc. a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? b) How would you think is a

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend thi

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Margarita Manterola wrote: > I do plan, however, to delegate many tasks. Both in the > constitutional and in the everyday use of the word. [...] > So, while not having a particular appointed 2IC, I do plan to ask a > lot of people for help on the many

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? I'v

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> So, while not having a particular appointed 2IC, I do plan to ask a >> lot of people for help on the many things I'd like to accomplish.  And >> I also do plan to mention, thank and appreciate all the help received, >> no matter how smal

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> What tasks do you have in mind that you plan to delegate? > > There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platform. I wonder if the questions period of the DPL electi

Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
#include How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time and time for other Debian activities. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:56:17PM +0700, Paul Wise a écrit : > #include > > How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount > of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time > and time for other Debian activities. Hi Paul, most of my involvement in Deb

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Margarita Manterola > wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert > > wrote: > >> What tasks do you have in mind that you plan to delegate? > > > > There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platfo

Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, this is a question to all DPL candidates. Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the main mistakes made during Du