Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-25 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 2024-03-23 14:13, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: Maybe is it time to Debian has its own outreachy program? To have DDs mentoring paid interns to learn how to package, how to contribute for softwares/tools used by Debian, and so on. What is the rate at which paid interns stick around when it becomes

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2024/03/23 18:48, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Maybe is it time to Debian has its own outreachy program? To have DDs mentoring paid interns to learn how to package, how to contribute for softwares/tools used by Debian, and so on. In the last Debian Outreach Delegation, this is one

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-23 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, Em 22/03/2024 14:23, Sruthi Chandran escreveu: Some ideas I have are: * more focused spending of diversity budget to ensure the benefits reach eligible people Maybe is it time to Debian has its own outreachy program? To have DDs mentoring paid interns to learn how to package, how t

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:38:26AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > >Another facet of the question is: do you think that Debian should >support and/or take action on "good causes" that aren't part of its >stated mission (and that some people, including some DDs, might >disagree on being "good")? >

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:38:26AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: I would point out to the candidates that Gerardo is not a voting member of the Debian project. I don't think we should allow our candidate discussions to be hijacked by non-voters. -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sven Mueller
I find even calling asking for a stance on wording regarding "gender issues" disrespectful.If you just respect everyone for who they are, using gender neutral language follows automatically. Because it's the only way to be inclusive to all genders and orientations (no matter if people are male, fem

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/22/24 21:29, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote: Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned from the discussion, and still seem to fin

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
* Soren Stoutner [2024-03-22 16:59:46 CET]: > On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote: > > Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright > > disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned > > from the discussion, and sti

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/20/24 00:31, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Hi Andreas, Em 19/03/2024 11:46, Andreas Tille escreveu: If this question is whether we should target for less power consumption I consider this topic as perfectly non-controversal and part of our mission statement.  I can't imagine any

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/19/24 14:08, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics? I'm not really sure in how far you consider the first statement relevant to the questi

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/10/24 21:06, Thomas Koch wrote: A question to DPL candidates It seems (to me?) that more and more areas of our lives become political and controversies on such topics more aggressive. Or people stop talking with each other. Personally, I believe that there is politics in every aspect of

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote: > Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright > disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned > from the discussion, and still seem to find a way that the Code of Conduct > woul

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
* Gerardo Ballabio [2024-03-19 09:38:26 CET]: > Another facet of the question is: do you think that Debian should > support and/or take action on "good causes" that aren't part of its > stated mission (and that some people, including some DDs, might > disagree on being "good")? Extending the DFS

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-21 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Gerardo Ballabio wrote on 21/03/2024 at 10:00:28+0100: > Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> I can understand that you want the candidate's opinion on this (after >> all it's important for a lot of people to chose someone with whom one >> shares values) > > Yes, that's why I asked. One candidate alre

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-21 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > I can understand that you want the candidate's opinion on this (after all it's important for a lot of people to chose someone with whom one shares values) Yes, that's why I asked. One candidate already answered and I hope the other one will also share her opinions. B

Environment friendlyness, diversity (Was: Candidates question: politics and Debian)

2024-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paulo, I'm changing the subject to match the content of your question. Am Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 04:01:12PM -0300 schrieb Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana: > In your page, you wrote: > > "I would encourage everyone to minimize air travel whenever possible. > Fortunately, I've noticed a tendency a

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-19 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi Andreas, Em 19/03/2024 11:46, Andreas Tille escreveu: If this question is whether we should target for less power consumption I consider this topic as perfectly non-controversal and part of our mission statement. I can't imagine any user wants to spent more money on energy to run a Debian s

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Gerardo, Am Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:38:26AM +0100 schrieb Gerardo Ballabio: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing > > > a great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics? > > > > I'm not really sure in how far y

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-19 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Gerardo Ballabio wrote on 19/03/2024 at 09:38:26+0100: > Andreas Tille wrote: >> > How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a >> > great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics? >> >> I'm not really sure in how far you consider the first state

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-19 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Andreas Tille wrote: > > How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a > > great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics? > > I'm not really sure in how far you consider the first statement relevant to the question. If your focus is on political c

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Thomas, Am Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 05:36:57PM +0200 schrieb Thomas Koch: > A question to DPL candidates > > It seems (to me?) that more and more areas of our lives become political and > controversies on such topics more aggressive. Or people stop talking with > each other. I share this observ

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Thomas" == Thomas Koch writes: Thomas> A question to DPL candidates Generally we mwait until the campaining period for questions to the candidates. I mean it's a list, you can post to it whenever, but those conventions do help us.

Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-10 Thread Thomas Koch
A question to DPL candidates It seems (to me?) that more and more areas of our lives become political and controversies on such topics more aggressive. Or people stop talking with each other. How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a great distribution without