Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 2/20/20 8:50 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 2/20/20 8:30 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> For the record; I have _absolutely no doubt_ that Sam is working to benefit >> Debian. But in that particular instance, I happen to strongly disagree that >> his actions have a positive effect on Debia

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Roberto, Regardless of whatever could be my political views (which I'm trying to set aside), there's issues with your reasoning below: On 2/20/20 2:20 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Another and clearly better and more inclusive approach would be to not > "penalize" people for the government u

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
micah anderson writes: > Ansgar writes: >>> The crux of my strong disagreement is here: as DPL, you just _framed_ the >>> Montreal miniDebConf as a protest. >> >> I think the announcement by the organizers framed the conference as >> being organized specifically to support the BDS movement > > Yo

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread micah anderson
Ansgar writes: >> >> The crux of my strong disagreement is here: as DPL, you just _framed_ the >> Montreal miniDebConf as a protest. > > I think the announcement by the organizers framed the conference as > being organized specifically to support the BDS movement You might think that but I thin

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:37:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar writes: > > > If you have 80-90%+ of parliament, from pretty much all parties, agree > > on something, then it *is* pretty much as uncontroversional as it gets > > there. > > This is an entertaining example to use in a projec

Re: -EXT-Re: DFARS Compliance Question

2020-02-20 Thread Ximin Luo
It's most likely fine. Tor Project has to abide by DFARS (and I too when I was a Tor contractor) due to its DARPA funding and we all used Debian. DFARS is literally 600+ pages of regulations, not really feasible for a small org to crawl over in detail. X Kunowski, Betty: > WARNING: This messa

Re: RE: -EXT-Re: DFARS Compliance Question

2020-02-20 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Hi Betty, For the record, though I am a Debian Developer, I am replying to this email in my capacity as a Federal employee. Nothing in this e-mail shall be considered authorization for vendors to incur cost or perform work outside of the scope of their contract. If there is a question as to wheth

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar writes: > If you have 80-90%+ of parliament, from pretty much all parties, agree > on something, then it *is* pretty much as uncontroversional as it gets > there. This is an entertaining example to use in a project whose mission is free software. I'm pretty sure that by that standard it'

RE: -EXT-Re: DFARS Compliance Question

2020-02-20 Thread Kunowski, Betty
WARNING: This message is from an external source. Evaluate the message carefully BEFORE clicking on links or opening attachments. Thank you I have already sent them a separate email asking this question and am waiting for a response. Betty Kunowski IT Asset Specialist - Software ITS Planning

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sam On 2020/02/20 15:44, Sam Hartman wrote: > I really hope that supporting our people doing the work at DC20 is > uncontroversial. During DC19 I've spoken about this topic to dozens (as in, literally dozens) of people who have approached me who care about DebConf and who have contributed to i

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 17:11 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > But my main point is this: Ansgar asserted that it is uncontroversial > that the BDS movement is antisemitic. Obviously that was not true. As I wrote it's only as uncontroversional as, say, climate change or usefulness of vaccines is. Of co

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Felix Lechner writes ("Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team"): > Hi Ian, > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:50 AM Ian Jackson > wrote: > > > > The BDS movement is not antisemitic. > > Please have a look at this report, especially the final page. > http:

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ian Jackson dijo [Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:50:26AM +]: > Ansgar writes ("Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel > not the DC20 Team"): > > I think the announcement by the organizers framed the conference as > > being organized specifically to support the BDS movement, a m

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Jack Warkentin
Hello Debian Community Criticism of the BJP government of India is not considered to be anti Hindu. Criticism of Myanmar because of their treatment of the Rohingyas is not considered to be anti Buddhist. Criticism of Saudi Arabia because of their treatment of women is not considered to be an

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, Em 18/02/2020 15:31, Roberto C. Sánchez escreveu: On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: Right. But choosing Brazil for a DebConf venue at a time when it did not even have national-level anti-discrimination protection for LGBT people[*] was done in good taste an

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 05:03:50PM +0100, Dato Simó wrote: > > If we force you, it is inherently distancing. If you do it on > > your own, it can be constructive. > > This sentence is beyond the pale for a PL. How so? The project, including various of its apparatus will ask people to self-cens

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Dato Simó
> If we force you, it is inherently distancing. If you do it on > your own, it can be constructive. This sentence is beyond the pale for a PL. -d

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Sam Hartman
[This will be my last message on this thread. I go away on vacation tomorrow.] > "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: Didier> The crux of my strong disagreement is here: as DPL, you just Didier> _framed_ the Montreal miniDebConf as a protest. This is a case where perception is

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:49:59AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > We could have something like a "bid acceptability check", at the start of > the process, to detect, discuss and formally decide on Elephants early > on. > One way to achieve that could be to poll regular DebConf attendees about > t

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Ian, On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:50 AM Ian Jackson wrote: > > The BDS movement is not antisemitic. Please have a look at this report, especially the final page. http://bit.ly/TheNewAnti-SemitesReport Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar writes ("Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team"): > I think the announcement by the organizers framed the conference as > being organized specifically to support the BDS movement, a movement > that is uncontroversially seen as antisemitic. They cou

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:26:06PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > absolutly. I still dont think it was right to have this decission in > > private, > > but at least announcing it earlier would have been better. > > > > (I do think having the decission in private was neccessary because else the >

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
Michael Banck writes: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:02:53AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> the BDS movement, a movement that is uncontroversially seen as >> antisemitic. > > Only a Sith deals in absolutes. So you are a Sith? But yes, some people also find climate change or usefulness of vaccines (autism!

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:02:53AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > the BDS movement, a movement that is uncontroversially seen as > antisemitic. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Le mercredi, 19 février 2020, 16.17:00 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : >> Debian is Asked to Support a Protest of a Debian Activity >> = >> >> The Montreal organizers could have simply organized an alternative for >