SPI Board Candidates Debate

2003-11-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have agreed to moderate an online debate among the candidates for SPI's board of directors. Information about the election is available at: http://www.spi-inc.org/news/2003/20031023 The debate will take place on Monday, 17 November 2003, fro

LWN subscription for Debian developers

2003-08-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. Last October, I announced a group subscription to lwn.net for Debian developers, sponsored by HP. I've recently received numerous queries about whether this "deal" was still available, and/or whether HP intended to continue sponsoring the su

Bits from the (soon to be former) DPL

2003-04-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is my last message as your DPL. As most of you know, today is the last day of my term, and Martin Michlmayr takes over as DPL effective 17 April 2003. Many of you have asked what my plans are once my term as DPL ends, and many of you hav

SPI board resolutions

2003-04-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fellow Debian developers, I am extremely pleased to report that the SPI board today approved two resolutions, which in combination resolve long-standing concerns about the allocation of funds in SPI's accounts. In the first resolution, 2003-04-01.

Independent Vote Count

2003-03-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This message failed to be delivered to debian-devel-announce initially, trying again since all Debian Developers should know about this... Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Debian Project Leader, > > As one of the candidates in the DPL

SPI Board of Directors election

2003-02-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In early January, I pointed out that Debian is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc, and that all Debian developers have the right to be contributing members of SPI. SPI is now electing new members for the Board of Directors. I

SPI membership / vote

2003-01-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc, which is a non-profit corporation under US law that was created to provide legal and financial existence for projects like Debian. More information about SPI is available on the web

Soliciting Applications and Nominations for the SPI Board

2002-11-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Below is a message from Martin (Joey) Schulze, the current Vice President of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). SPI is the non-profit corporation that was formed to provide Debian with a legal and financial existence in the United States, and w

LWN subscription for Debian developers

2002-10-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. Some of you noticed that the Linux Weekly News, aka lwn.net, changed to a subscription model for full access, and wondered if Debian developers could arrange some sort of group access. I'm pleased to report that the answer is yes! LWN offer

Bits from the DPL

2002-09-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is another in my ongoing series of messages as your DPL. I certainly didn't intend to get from mid May to mid September without a message! I'll try to be more regular about these in the future... Rather than try to tackle every subject

Two Delegations

2002-07-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am pleased to announce two new Project Leader's Delegates as per section 8.2 of the Debian Constitution. First, as some of you may be aware, in May of this year I began looking for someone to help me handle the details of donations to Debian, and

Bits from the DPL

2002-05-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is the second in an ongoing series of messages from me as your DPL. This time my topic is porting. One of the features of our imminent Debian 3.0 (woody) release is that we will support *eleven* different architectures. This is almost