Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:22 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Anibal Avelar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.0805 +0100]: http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Penguin_Fat.gif http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Jhas.png http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Franklin PIAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.0936 +0100]: What about a bug... Bugs are our pets : we take care of them. I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why bother? A fluffy pillow with a

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not. Debian is for everyone, kids included! -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1007 +0100]: A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not. Debian is for everyone, kids included! Yes. What I meant to say was: a stuffed animal might belittle Debian. The Swirl is way more mature, albeit perceived less

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2008-02-26 at 10:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1007 +0100]: A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not. Debian is for everyone, kids included! Yes. What I meant to say was: a stuffed animal might belittle

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]: I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed animal would belittle Debian. Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS project with an animal mascot. -- .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2008-02-26 at 10:20 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]: I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed animal would belittle Debian. Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]: I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed animal would belittle Debian. Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS project with an

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-26 12:26]: also sprach Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]: I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed animal would belittle Debian. Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:41:41 Nico Golde, vous avez écrit : Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS project with an animal mascot. I strongly agree, also because we already have a logo it would be nice if the new fancy logo would be related to the existing

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Romain Beauxis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1454 +0100]: Now that I think about it, I think that a care bear with a debian logo on it's belly would even be better than a marmot :-D Oh, then I vote for teletubbies. (NOT) -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sam Hocevar] Development news Last month Petter Reinholdtsen (pere) gave some news about his project of improving the init system [3]. This is almost as simple as adding LSB headers to your init scripts, and work is advancing towards this goal, though not as quickly as

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Sam Hocevar] Development news Last month Petter Reinholdtsen (pere) gave some news about his project of improving the init system [3]. This is almost as simple as adding LSB headers to your init scripts, and work

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm not advocating stuffed animals for Debian mascots. I'm fine with a pillow, a tie, and a tutu. I proposed Lars Wirzenius wearing nothing but a tie and a tutu, and holding a pillow with a swirl on it, as the official Debian mascot.

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:54:18PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:41:41 Nico Golde, vous avez écrit : Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS project with an animal mascot. I strongly agree, also because we already have a logo it

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:36:32AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: What about a bug... Bugs are our pets : we take care of them. Oh god. No, please, everything but not a bug as mascot. You'll be unable to communicate to our users that we _care_ for bugs. It will bring the reputation to Debian, that

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:20:55AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS project with an animal mascot. What about a Foss project with a non-animal mascot? And for an non-animal mascot I'd like to suggest The perfect spiral [¹]. [¹]

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:56:40AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Franklin PIAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.0936 +0100]: What about a bug... Bugs are our pets : we take care of them. I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the free software zoo. Is

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patrick Schoenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.2239 +0100]: From a marketing point of view its a really great idea, because it betters the recognition of Debian. From a marketing point of view, our swirl is already better than any other mascot, except maybe Tux. -- .''`.

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: What about a bug... Bugs are our pets : we take care of them. I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why bother? Ack. A fluffy pillow with a

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:02 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:36:32AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: What about a bug... Bugs are our pets : we take care of them. Oh god. No, please, everything but not a bug as mascot. You'll be unable to communicate to our users

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Finney
gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'd actually like to see, own and use is a sweat-shirt; wearing it in everday life would be a nice and easy way of promoting Debian. URL:http://clusty.com/search?query=host%3Acafepress.com+debian+sweatshirt -- \ Dyslexia means never

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly agree, also because we already have a logo it would be nice if the new fancy logo would be related to the existing ones. I really like the genie in http://www.openpuppets.com/fondos/8c.png :) Hey, I like the

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread nic
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:16:28 +0100 Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to set up a Debian Marketing Team, whose work would be to organise all the promotional stuff (logos, t-shirt designs, wallpapers, etc.) so that the project can officially endorse good designs, and to

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. [¹] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful penguin, rebelling against its

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. [¹] Technically speaking it

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 13:42 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:07:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We had a chicken[1]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. I loved the chicken. I had a character. That would be the animal at: http://lintian.debian.org/

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian project (in a

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian project (in a similar way to the Linux penguin or the GNU gnu) that we can use

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian project (in a similar

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-24 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. [¹] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful penguin, rebelling against its genetic heritage. LCA2009 has a tasmanian devil pretending to be

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:07:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On su, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD