Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:41:31AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: \item You can use DEBIAN trademarks to make true factual statements about DEBIAN or communicate compatibility with your product truthfully. Can I use DEBIAN trademarks to make snarky ill-supported

working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

2012-07-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in the do care camp: that's fine too, there is no need to convince others of your position; what is needed is your contribution to fix low hanging fruits and document the more difficult ones. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

Bug#679956: please document the debian.net namespace and its entries

2012-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: - I've already discussed in a related thread of a few months ago how I think the current distinction between debian.net and debian.org should be documented, incidentally resolving other visibility problems of those services. Not that the dnsZoneEntry LDAP entry

Re: Fresh academic paper with Debian affiliation

2012-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
consistently use Debian Project. We do that in legal-ish contexts (signed/represented by foo, on behalf of the Debian Project). I think we --- actually, you :-) --- should do the same for scientific publications. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
* be able to host the mentors service on Debian hardware without endangering the organizations that legally owns or run it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:12:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: So until these policies and whatever else is needed is in place there is no way to run this as an official service. That is correct, yes. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in Debian. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule

Re: DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: [Debconf-team] Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
don't think it's as easy as it seems either. [2] all the encouragements contained in this mail are not specific to Ian, of course, but general to the lurker public as a whole -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http

Re: Claiming the debian account on GitHub ?

2012-06-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
, because this is something you're doing on your own, and on which you're free to do as you please. But next time you could as well skip the first part of asking for an opinion, if you're going to ignore it. (Likely/hopefully, my last comment on this whole matter.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Re: Claiming the debian account on GitHub ? [and 1 more messages]

2012-06-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
of singling out some was good, IMO. I wish he had proposed that _before_ closing down the account. But no worries, Yaroslav has picked it up and is implementing precisely that. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http

Re: Claiming the debian account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
, for new software. I would also add a link to http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ given that non-free-ness is not the only problem with GitHub-like offerings. Please consider doing the above. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
use case to support. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
), than they should be self-reconfirmations. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
all *.commands to structured syntax as part of this change, or do you rather plan to have both structured and oneliner syntaxes coexist? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian

Re: General Resolution: Diversity statement results

2012-06-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
been developed for Debian purposes and it's serving us well as it is. But I do challenge the argument that devotee is not interesting/useful for others, because I don't think it is distributed in a way that is comparable with usual free software standards. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack

Re: General Resolution: Diversity statement results

2012-06-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
(and for considering the patch idea)! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club

Re: Claiming the debian account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that they are non-free (why this is bad for their users, if space permits) and point to alternative free/federated solutions Hope this helps, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian

Re: Need suggestions on Debian.cn (Debian China community)

2012-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
mailing list, unfortunately, but you can look up Debian Developers in China starting from http://db.debian.org/ Hope this helps, -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader

Re: xth wrap-up about statement on diversity, statement may be issued without general resolution

2012-04-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
and will post a draft GR on -vote ASAP. In addition to the above, what I can do to make the process as smooth as possible is to reduce the discussion period to 1 week, and I intend to do so. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

[fwd: OpenStack summit April 2012 post mortem]

2012-04-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
report! Cheers. - Forwarded message from Loic Dachary l...@enovance.com - Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:37:32 +0200 From: Loic Dachary l...@enovance.com To: openstack-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org CC: Stefano Maffulli stef...@openstack.org, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@upsilon.cc Subject

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-04-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ catching up with some old discussion ] On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:16:09PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: All in all, as a project we should simply see the agreement as something like for every web browser in Debian who decides to use t=something, Debian will receive donations. If, due

Re: xth wrap-up about statement on diversity, statement may be issued without general resolution

2012-04-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
propose this as a nice NM question for the future! -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule

Re: xth wrap-up about statement on diversity, statement may be issued without general resolution (Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project)

2012-04-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:47:04PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: The message from Stefano Zacchiroli quoted below includes a wrap-up (of the wrap-up (of the...)) about the statement on diversity in contributors proposed by Francesca Ciceri. Stefano asked to publish it in #669011, although

Bug#669011: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
see fit. Many thanks in advance, Cheers. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00048.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/04/msg00053.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
/04/msg00011.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for downstream changes, but checking didn't hurt. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
; otherwise the statement can be published under DPL auspices. Hope this helps, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. But I've no idea how that would map to actual donations. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:00:04PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Anther interesting thing in there is a requirement that we inform DDG thirty days in advance of releasing changes to the implementation of the links to it. I have some bad feeling which cries non

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
time effort that need periodic explicit action by both parties (us pinging them and them deciding should we do that again?) to work in the long run - for companies, the two are likely to be on different budget lines: one for marketing, the other for partnerships Cheers. -- Stefano

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. a rather standard agreement whose underlying technical infrastructure is not his to change. We can accept or give up, but it's likely not in our power to impose how they do the accounting. That's life. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
upstream relationships, that set will shrink to nothing, too bad. The agreement will simply allow the set to exist, it will not magically fill it with browsers that implement t=something. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

Re: DDG

2012-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:20:24PM +0300, vangelis mouhtsis wrote: And how can i avoid to have DDG as default search URL on my iceweasel? I think thats not fair enough. Please read the thread. We are *not* talking about having DDG as default search engine in iceweasel. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
quo. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
and innocent groups. Ooooh, interesting, that is a welcome change. Thanks for working on it! -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. (Only there and not as an attachment simply because I haven't yet explicitly asked if I can shared it publicly, but I doubt there will be a problem with that.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
of adding DDG as an optional search engine will be considered negatively on technical basis, people will complain, and we can rely o our usual mechanisms to decide on technical matters. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
transparency principle should win, on this.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a problem with earmarking traffic as originating from Debian, *they will have an option* to gather Debian donations out of DDG searches. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
$trusted_organization :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
, but it'd be useful to know if your $company find that convincing or not. If they don't, it would be helpful if you can share your impressions on why they don't. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack

Re: Visible results from sponsor funds [Re: Finding sponsors for Debian]

2012-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
with visual clues that *show* work being done with donated money. We are quite good at that for DebConf, with the final report, but we don't do that for other events like sprints or, why not, machine installations / replacement. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org

Re: DEP-5: Patches pushed to the Debian Policy repository

2012-03-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:22:37AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Answering to self, I hereby propose the following patch for the DEP-5 repository. It implements the (not so) big fat warning suggestion above. Unless there are objections, I'll push it to the repository a week for now

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. IANAL, but AFAIR fact *collections* might be under some circumstances. But again, this has nothing to do with this discussion. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 06:40:08PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Dear project members, as you might have heard post-FOSDEM, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is opening up to an affiliate membership structure [1,2]. As I've already mentioned in [3], representatives of OSI have approached

Re: DEP-5: Patches pushed to the Debian Policy repository

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've a question related to that: what do you think would be best for the DEP-5 version published at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ ? Would it be OK to have a big fat warning there saying this DEP has been accepted

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
values, as exemplified by DFSG §4.) For the trademark policy, see above. I've already spend some time on it, as you should know, but I'd like to first decide the general guidelines before finalizing that part. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
* agreements. On the other hand, we'll base our assessment of whether we should rebrand some software or not based on various inputs, including trademark *policies*. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that affiliating to OSI would diminish our participation in SPI. I fail to see the logic behind that implication. Cheers. [1] although only on matters related to the services that SPI's is offering us, so you could argue it doesn't count as contributing -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc

OSI affiliation

2012-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
methodologies are not. I consider that part of the OSI name to be, essentially, historical heritage. I don't think it should stop us from working with OSI, if we consider that doing so is a useful thing to do -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de

Re: Suggestion: *Debian brochures [Was: 1 year release good enough]

2012-01-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
be happy to grant them. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club

Re: [DEP5] Clarification of the minimum required structure

2011-12-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
statement than just stating a global Copyright / License. But I do see such a feeling as a good thing: it'd be an incentive to do such a review, and to do so in a more principled way. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

DEP-5 and SPDX

2011-12-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
representative in the working group). FWIW, SPDX 1.0 goals were not the same as DEP-5. I believe we have converged on the largest possible common subset of features. That common subset *might* be larger for SPDX 2.0, but it is too soon to say that for sure. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack

Re: FYI: Creative Commons 4.0 process starts

2011-12-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
up, Paul! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule

Re: private email aliases considered harmful (Re: bits from the DPL for September 2011)

2011-11-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
material needed are volunteers to help with DPL tasks. Having thought about the above since quite a while, I've repeatedly called for volunteers to work on DPL-related tasks. Unfortunately, with little success so far ... but I haven't given up hope yet (hint hint :-)). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

call for volunteers: Debian liaisons for Google Code-In

2011-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to apply. Many thanks in advance!, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology

relationship with Ubuntu - call for feedback

2011-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to point me to specific episodes you'd like to remain private, feel free to mail me at leader@d.o. Many thanks in advance for your help, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG

2011-10-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
it is modified wrt upstream? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first

trademark licenses and DFSG

2011-10-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
without (trademark) restrictions! What do you think? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG

2011-10-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
of such a broader interpretation, but I'm not sure I'm parsing it right. Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/08/msg00194.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/08/msg00195.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in the spec once and for all? If no further changes to the *format* are planned, that should be a safe thing to do. Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/?m=20110905164020.ga...@upsilon.cc -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

report from GNU hackers meeting 2011

2011-09-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've been invited to deliver a speech at the next GNU Hackers Meeting, which will take place in Paris (France) from August 25th to August 28th. The people who invited me are interested in the workflow of patches from final

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
think? Cheers. PS Regarding Wouter's objection in this thread, it's a valid one, but I guess it's as empiric as saying that several DPLs in the past have been actually running for a second term after having been in charge for one, sometimes winning again sometimes not. -- Stefano

Re: relationships with GNU as an upstream - call for feedback

2011-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've been invited to deliver a speech at the next GNU Hackers Meeting, which will take place in Paris (France) from August 25th to August 28th. The people who invited me are interested in the workflow of patches from final

Re: Summary of scientific research on Debian (was: DD age histogram)

2011-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela ...| ..: |.. -- C. Adams

Re: Summary of scientific research on Debian (was: DD age histogram)

2011-07-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is quite high) managing to have an impact on us. The entry barrier is very high for them. So if we, as in Debian, want to benefit from research outcomes, it should *also* be us reaching out to scholars and try to integrate their work. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science

Re: Summary of scientific research on Debian (was: DD age histogram)

2011-07-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for raising this topic, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-07-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
mentioned earlier on in this thread and the possibility for hardware people to jump in and provide direct support. But I don't expect the latter part to be any significant share of the whole thingie. Just my 0.02 EUR, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7

Re: Debian Hardware Compatibility List (Debian hardware certification)

2011-07-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12:35PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:33:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: We talked about the possibility to have their hardware being certified as compatible

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf9/10[/11] accounting summary

2011-07-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
or another the numbers shows that: either in the past 2 years we have already started respecting the desiderata of being an amortized 0 cost event; or it is at hand's reach for future editions. Thanks again for digging up the numbers, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc

Re: [Debconf-team] Getting DebConf attendees reimbursed quickly for travel costs

2011-06-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
of Debian finances. Most notably, recent cash flow might be missing, as well as already approved expenses which have not been paid yet. Hope this helps, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc

relationships with GNU as an upstream - call for feedback

2011-06-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
on that front) [3] http://updo.debian.net/ [4] http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#allgnupkgs -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
be worth to pursue this approach. It might even be possible to share test suite code with the Ubuntu folks, depending on how much the tests are tied to the deltas between Debian and Ubuntu (something I haven't investigated). JFYI, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
, exclude the Debian distribution from its scope. We might consider it only if that detail changes. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle

Re: New DDs introductions ?

2011-05-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
-- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela ...| ..: |.. -- C. Adams

Re: Linuxtag Germany (Berlin) 2011 -- recap

2011-05-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
attendance to the conference. Cheers. [1] which had me juggling a bit with my slides and speech on the relationships among Debian and businesses [2] 20110511103627.gb12...@melusine.alphascorpii.net -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc

Re: New round of IRC sessions

2011-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
me] if this is the case.) Good luck for the organization, I'm looking forward to the first session! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle

Call to participate in FrOSCon 2011

2011-05-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
] FrOSCon website: http://www.froscon.org [2] Call for Papers: http://www.froscon.de/en/program/call-for-papers.html Submission interface: https://frab.froscon.org/froscon2011/cfp/users/sign_in - End forwarded message - -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
be better if the Blends team at large (+ other relevant subprojects) consider turning into a proper WML page the index currently at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr

blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
and/or submitted a bug report against www.d.o about it? Cheers. [1] or at least to those we believe to be popular + an extra more blends... link -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando

Bug#622274: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
at 11:24:26AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I like a lot the idea of providing links to blends from the Debian homepage [1], thanks for proposing (and revamping) the idea! However, from the above paragraph I do not understand what you needed

Re: Upcoming Cherokee webserver providing a webapp-market - Opinions please?

2011-03-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
stable release. I see advantages on both sides in such a (hypothetical) agreement. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans

[DEP8] autopkgtest - automatic as-installed package testing

2011-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
: 8 State: DRAFT Date: 2011-02-25 Drivers: Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk, Iustin Pop ius...@debian.org, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8 License: Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification

Re: Debian WWW team IRC meeting, 15 February 21:30 UTC in #debian-www

2011-02-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
, please let me know if you want me to. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela

Fwd: Present at LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin (May 11-14)

2011-02-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
- Europe's leading event for Free Software and Open Source 11.-14. May 2011 at Berlin Fairgrounds http://www.linuxtag.org - End forwarded message - -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc

Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions - End forwarded message - -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to be the most natural place. After all, we include licenses in that dir as they are widespread licenses we don't want to duplicate in copyright files; that seems to be the very same rationale for assigning short names in DEP5. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
of the spec, hence possibly in need of some revamping. Thanks again, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta

[vu...@gnome.org: Cross-distro meeting about application installer]

2010-12-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
message - -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela

Re: cross-distro work on App Store/Software Center - looking for volunteers

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
are interested, please contact me to volunteer. The sooner, the better. Cheers PS full quote below of the initial mail, to the benefit of -project readers On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Dear all, Vicent Untz has contacted me about a cross-distro meeting

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in pushing a standard forward, even in a delicate area as copyright information. Thanks! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
on the general principle of readily available whiteboards. The history of DEP-5 has accounted for a slight deviation from that, but that's it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela ...| ..: |.. -- C. Adams

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
this difference, can you please expand? Hope this helps, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for things like exceptions, I'd say that we certainly want to. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta

Re: Debian WWW Sprint, Dec 17th to 19th

2010-11-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
://wiki.debian.org/Sprints -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela

Re: Report from Debian booth at SfN2010

2010-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to the Debian project in the Acknowledgements section to http://www.debian.org/donations ? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the characteristics of a pure gift-economy, but when those chances come, let's appreciate the important *advantages* gift-economies have over other models. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -- http://upsilon.cc

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
) highlight that current guidelines are not clear cut (and that is not necessarily bad IMHO), there are already behaviors which are considered OK-ish if applied sporadically and a bit less so if applied recurrently. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z

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