Hi there. Since I am having problems with my ISPs and relays, I don't know if my original message reached Adnan. For this reason, I am sending here an (edited) version of what I wrote to Adnan, with the "private chat" edited.
Regards, Rogério Brito. ----- Forwarded message from Rogério Brito <[email protected]> ----- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:06:40 -0200 From: Rogério Brito <[email protected]> To: Adnan Hodzic <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Permission for use, request User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi, Adnan. On Feb 19 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Quote of paragraphs we would like to use are: Yes, you can use it, with the following conditions: * you attribute me (not as anonymous); * incorporates the grammatical/spelling fixes below; * I explicitly license it as GPL-2+. > """ > Even though I am late with this post, it is nice to say that I am > writing here from this year's DebConf10, in NYC. > > Today (well, yesterday) was the day of the Cheese and Wine party and I > think that it was cool, at least for the moments that I were there. > This post, though, isn't technical in any sense. I only talks shortly Should be read: "I only talk shortly". > about my impressions of the community, as this is my first DebConf > ever (despite the fact that I have been using Debian since the late > nineties). > > I was very pleased to have met Bdale Garbee. I saw him the other day > arriving with Keith Packard, but I just didn't want to disturb them at > that point. We only talked for, say, 2 minutes, and his was one of the > nicest receptions that I had here. > > And there were some other people that were equally easy to approach, > nice to talk with and, to my surprise, knew my name after some brief > moments (yes, this does make a difference, especially when you are in > a strange country, when you don't know anybody with whom you have > worked for some years). Being involved in the organization stuff, one > would think that Jimmy Kaplowitz would be so busy, but he was so kind. > > I had longer conversations with Tássia Camões, Tiago Vaz (as always) > and some other people that I had not yet had the pleasure of meeting > in person. In particular, Daniel Baumann (who apparently is now crazy > about our FISL and wants to drink all Guaraná that he can get :-)), > Chris Lamb and Otávio Salvador and his mom. Those people are so cool > and it is nice to discuss some legal issues among different continents "and it was nice to discuss" > in the lounge of their building at late night. :-) > """ > > Rogério Brito > August 3rd, 2010 > http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/posts/first-post-from-debconf-10/ > > Please let us know if you give permission for us to quote your blog in > the report. (The report will be GPL-licensed, version 2 or later.) Go ahead. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
