Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-11 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, Reading zack's platform, it makes me wonder why would you (Gergely and Wouter) actually need to be elected as a DPL to do what you mention on your platforms. Especially Wouter: you even state that you want to do some things the way zack has been doing them. So, the questions are: * Why do

More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months for project leaders in this or that area of the project. In Debian, we just elect a DPL, and then we hope that he appoints people who then can make decis

Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, This is a question for all candidates. Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that there's very little money that Debian is able to get. I'm convinced that this situation could change with a bit of involvement from the DPL, and that such money could help a lot the project. For

Gergely Nagy: how will you "search for talent and passion"

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, "search[ing] for talent and passion" is a great goal, but just writing "The key to my goal is communication" isn't enough for me. So, how will you do? Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Gergely Nagy: Disappearing?

2012-03-11 Thread Gergely Nagy
Kurt Roeckx writes: > As your platfrom indicates, you have disappeared from the Debian > project before. Some DPLs started with alot of energy, but somewhat > faded during their term and then disappeared. Do you think there > is a chance of this happening to you? No, there is no chance of that