Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: Ian said he'll send over his notes, but I'm impatient so I'll have a go :) Thanks for your impatience. :) The issues that were touched included: I found quite similar things in my private log - hoping to review the recording later to sort out

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, (you could have started a new thread :-)) On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: * The initial social committee will have to combine two aspects - one is the need to have a body that would judge on disputes (this would be the committee as such), and the other is the need to

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:15:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: * Someone proposed that the leader makes the initial list of members which would then be voted upon, not sure; I would maintain my position that people should be nominating themselves, rather than the leader naming them -

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: I have an issue with the leader deciding on the composition of the committee, in general. I think it could easily create the impression that they are his cronies, and we have to avoid that. You are right here - I just wanted to enhance the suggestion

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I was happy to note that there wasn't really any discussion as to whether there should be such a thing - the implicit consensus was that we do need something, it's just that we need to figure out exactly what and how. Something is needed, but I'm

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, MJ Ray wrote: If it's all voting-derived, how can we assure there will be any debian-minority views represented on soc-ctte at any time? What exact minority do you have in mind? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel we're really missing most sorely list-admin teams who will take care of the social fabric of one list each and are empowered to make limited short-term changes to preserve it, including updating the list info pages and small posting bans. We should

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:02:53PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel we're really missing most sorely list-admin teams who will take care of the social fabric of one list each and are empowered to make limited short-term changes to preserve it, including

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the difference between 'a list admin' and 'a small list admin team' in this situation? Nothing, really, I just believe in teams in volunteer work, because then it's more likely that somebody in the team has the time and the energy to do what's

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, MJ Ray wrote: If it's all voting-derived, how can we assure there will be any debian-minority views represented on soc-ctte at any time? What exact minority do you have in mind? No particular one, but including: racial or ethnic

debian/linux per ipovedenti - non vedenti

2007-06-26 Thread Claudio Gianelle
Vorrei sapere se esiste una versione linux per ipovedenti e non vedenti.Grazie.

Re: debian/linux per ipovedenti - non vedenti

2007-06-26 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
debian-project: He is asking for information regarding Debian accessibility for the visually impaired, and I'm sending him to debian-italian. Em Ter, 2007-06-26 às 16:29 +0200, Claudio Gianelle escreveu: Vorrei sapere se esiste una versione linux per ipovedenti e non vedenti.Grazie. Purtroppo

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:19:46AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: * The communication of soc-ctte members with people about their behaviour which might eventually become a matter of committee deliberation should be kept reasonably private, to prevent unnecessary escalation

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:19:46AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: * The communication of soc-ctte members with people about their behaviour which might eventually become a matter of committee deliberation should be kept

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:44:28AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: even if I'm not perfectly decided whether it might be just practical because I doubt that there will be enough cronies in the group of volunteers. Like with the cabal - it's not a matter of if they will be there, but a matter of

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:48:51AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: I feel we're really missing most sorely list-admin teams who will take care of the social fabric of one list each and are empowered to make limited short-term changes to preserve it, including updating the list info pages and small

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, there is hopefully no problem to find a replacement. My point was that we should explicitely name those positions who should not be a member of the soc-ctte. Okay. Interestingly enough, we don't have similar provisions in the constitution (§6.2)

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:19:46AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The biggest decisions need to be publicly documented however. I don't think we've clearly drawn the line here. I'm also unsure if it's important to have a clear

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I think that the internal discussions should be kept private to the soc-ctte at least as long as no decision is made. As decisions made by the comitee will probably quite often involve social behaviour of DDs I think it's problematic if all DDs can

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-26 Thread Mike Bird
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 15:33, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: After a decision is made I think it's less problematic to make the discussion available to all DDs. But still there is the problem, that offending behaviour would be exposed to all DDs. The committee's deliberations should be solely based

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:54:51PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in celebrating this a bit? What would be an appropriate way? By spending the day arguing about

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:12:51 -0700 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:54:51PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in celebrating this

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:12:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:54:51PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in celebrating this a bit? What