Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Devin Prater
Thanks. I tried to think of good, useful questions to spark discussion, but I don't know much about the structure of Debian or its project leaders. I do think, though, that if the project leader keeps accessibility in mind, this will filter down throughout Debian as a whole. As far as backports, m

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Devin, thanks for bringing accessibility questions in :) Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le lun. 21 mars 2022 23:37:03 +0100, a ecrit: > Again, not sur the DPL can have a crucial role about this, > unfortunately. I agree, a DPL cannot make current maintainers magically find time to work on issues

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 21/03/2022 à 00:07, Hideki Yamane a écrit : Hi, On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:09:24 -0500 Devin Prater wrote: * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? Sorry, no. It means that there's an opportunity to people like me can know it more if the Debian Accessibility group could sh

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 11:40:36AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: > > If there was a single Debian foundation, Debian members would be split > > between those that are in the juridiction of the foundation and those > > that are not and the former would be inevitably advantaged. > > Would moving such

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-21 12:05, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> A common pattern to address this within the open source world is to >> create a non-profit legal entity, e.g. the FSF Foundation or the GNOME >> Foundation. > > or SPI? SPI is Debian

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > A common pattern to address this within the open source world is to > create a non-profit legal entity, e.g. the FSF Foundation or the GNOME > Foundation. or SPI? -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|r

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Gard Spreemann
Bill Allombert writes: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Currently, the Project has no legal standing of its >> own, meaning that within any legal context, there is no Project. > > Indeed, it is a great feature of Debian that it is not bound to any > particu

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > Currently, the Project has no legal standing of its > own, meaning that within any legal context, there is no Project. Indeed, it is a great feature of Debian that it is not bound to any particular juridiction, it only exists thr

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-21 09:41, Christian Kastner wrote: > Currently, the Project has no legal standing of its > own, meaning that within any legal context, there is no Project. You > can't donate to Debian, you donate to some other organization (SPI). The > DPL can represent the Project only formally, as for

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Devin On 2022/03/20 19:09, Devin Prater wrote: * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? I have indeed.   * If so, have you worked with them in the past, or are you currently working with them? I haven't directly worked with them directly, but I have been on the receiving en

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-20 13:10, Felix Lechner wrote: > I'm sorry no one has gotten back to you so far. I do not know which > ideas Jonathan Carter and Brian Gupta (copied as a courtesy) have been > pursuing. > > My own thinking on this point is also evolving, as detailed below. I > copied Christan Kastner to