Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-04-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Adrian Bunk [2019-04-01 18:29]: > > The DPL can encourage an inclusive community and cultural > > understanding. Just creating more awareness about stumbling blocks > > that people face helps because it many cases people simply have no > > idea (e.g. the visa issue mentioned above). I've

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-04-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana [2019-04-01 14:51]: > I agree we can have MiniDebConfs but the problem is the local DDs > are usually involved on the organization too. So it's important > Debian developers from Europe (and other countries) been encouraged > to join these MiniDebConfs. I

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-04-02 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi Jonathan, On 3/30/19 4:53 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > > That's right, geographical diversity has some significance. There's been > some discussion all over about privilege lately and how it affects free > software contributions. Free software developers tend to come from > backgrounds

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-04-01 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, On 4/1/19 9:35 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > There are a number of reasons why many FOSS contributors are from > "developed"/"Western" nations, e.g. time, access to computers, > Internet, language, etc. There are also cultural reasons, e.g. in > particular in some Asian countries it's

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-04-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:35:56PM +0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >... > The DPL can encourage an inclusive community and cultural > understanding. Just creating more awareness about stumbling blocks > that people face helps because it many cases people simply have no > idea (e.g. the visa issue

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-04-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
(I'll turn your questions around) * Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana [2019-03-30 13:51]: > It's important increase diversity in Debian with DD especially from > southern hemisphere, right? I believe it's important, yes. I actually had a phone call about this topic last week with a researcher

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15357 March 1977, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: We have debated on the "debconf-discuss" mailing list about DebConf21 and it was said about the huge number of DD in Europe. So, what the DPL can do to increase the number of DDs in other regions outside Europe and USA? Well. Yes, its

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2019/03/30 18:51, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > We have debated on the "debconf-discuss" mailing list about DebConf21 > and it was said about the huge number of DD in Europe. > > So, what the DPL can do to increase the number of DDs

Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-03-30 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, We have debated on the "debconf-discuss" mailing list about DebConf21 and it was said about the huge number of DD in Europe. So, what the DPL can do to increase the number of DDs in other regions outside Europe and USA? It's important increase diversity in Debian with DD especially from