Re: Question to all candidates: In eight years...

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:27:55PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: this is the echo of a question asked two years ago in the 2010 campaign. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00057.html “In ten^Weight years I'd like Debian...”: - to be backed by a massively diverse community, even

Re: Raising money for Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:26:28PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: 2/ To all: are there other ways to raise money that we have not yet explored and that we should try? At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I haven't felt good at the idea of raising more money up to now, because I don't think we

Re: About debian-companies

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Stefano, will you continue to try to build that discussion place if you're not re-elected ? If yes, how do you expect to do it ? (AFAIK you're not a representative of such a company and as such you will no longer be able to stay

Re: About debian-companies

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: you might have read that Stefano is trying to organize discussions/collaboration between companies that have a strategic interest in Debian: http://lists.debian.org/debian-companies/ Wouter and Gergely, what do you think of this project ? Would you

Re: Raising money for Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: there's a discussion going on on debian-project about entering an agreement with DuckDuckGo to get some sort of affiliate commission from the money that DuckDuckGo would earn from traffic tagged as coming from Debian. 1/ To Wouter and Gergely: this

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org writes: What is your vision about how many different software pieces can be supported by Debian as a project for each part of the software stack, would it be architectures, kernels, init systems, high-level package managers, desktop environments or

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: In contrast with what we require for the software we distribute, we are forbidding to use some of our logos for profit. While there are some clear differences between software and carriers of visual identity, I feel that there is a strong mismatch

Debian Project Leader Elections 2012: Call for votes

2012-03-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2012. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Sunday, April 1st, 2012 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian