Kevin Mark wrote: > There have been some new subdomains created as easier forms of > communication wrt debian (some unofficial and some not) like > times.debian.net and release.debian.org. Would it be useful or desired > to create a central location, as opposed to doing > 'site:debian.org position statement' in google, to view these official > positions that Debian has issued, possibly for media consumption and > for others looking to know Debians position on popularly discussed > issues? Not including say the social contract > page or people.debian.org entries that some folks like yourself have.
The problem is that Debian is a sufficiently decentralized organization that asking about "Debian's position" makes only a little more sense than asking about, say, "Slashdot's position". I don't know who exactly would have authority to make an official position statement for Debian. Probably the outcomes of GRs count, so we can say what Debian's position on the GFDL is. Can the DPL's remarks as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" be considered position statements on behalf of the project? He was elected, so maybe yes, but a fair number of DDs don't agree with some of them... Apropos to my previous email, I don't know if Debian has even taken an official position about the desirability of spending project funds to license software patents for use in Free Software, although I suspect the majority of DDs would be against it ;-) -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
