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

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. http://clusty.com/search?query=host%3Acafepress.com+debian+sweatshirt> -- \ "Dyslexia means neve

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 us

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

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. -- .''`. m

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 softwar

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
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, tha

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

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. signature.

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 scrip

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 quic

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 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 > ex

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 a

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 w

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 anothe

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. kraf

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 mig

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

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 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

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 > > http://fixx

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

2008-02-25 Thread martin f krafft
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 > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/A

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

2008-02-25 Thread Anibal Avelar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/08, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Sam Hocevar [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > > > the FreeBSD logo

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

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.debi

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 2

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]

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 sp

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 agains

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

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 >>

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 pe

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

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 u