Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-03 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/3 George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thirded Someone can clarify but don't you need to be a Foundation member to nominate or support nominations? Either way, all of the current Council get my nomination, plus welp gets a second. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Howells
I nominate everyone on the current Council and/or second anyone else nominating them :) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/5 Ali Polatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to nominate: Fernando J. Pereda -- ferdy Bo Ørsted Andresen -- zlin Is there a method for objecting to a nomination, kinda like the opposite of seconding it? :P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Howells
Oh, btw! astinus, I'm nominating you. :P Hahahahah, I find this hilarious and will accept just so I can *not* write a big manifesto (pointless waste of time) and *not* vote for myself -- gotta be worth seeing how badly one can fail to be elected ;) What would I aim to fix? Hopefully not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-07 Thread Alex Howells
I completely agree. Few people have done more behind the scenes as Roy. I would also like to nominate zmendico for his excellent work with portage. I agree with both of these and also think both agaffney and wolf31o2 would serve us excellently on Council. Consider them nominated too :) Alex

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-07 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/7 Santiago M. Mola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ferdy, thanks for the nomination. astinus, thanks for your support and inspiration, which almost convinced me for running for Council. Any time :) In which case I guess maybe Jeroen Roovers (rej / jer) wants that spot on the ticket? ;) I'd like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-07 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/7 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, but I'm not sure what I could do to fix this crazy thing. Precisely why you'd be perfect for the job. You would bring new perspective to the role, not misconceptions. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-08 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/7 Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Except you'd rather veto the ones you don't like. Hehe... It must suck being you, wanting to veto people and not being able to do it :) I trust the masses to do the sensible thing and not vote for people who'd be bad for the project. Hopefully

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-08 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/8 Nirbheek Chauhan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have raised flame and don't actually contribute anything useful to an art form. Whilst I'd agree Ciaran flames with the best of them, and trolls with the worst, you simply cannot contend he never contributed anything to the project and despite

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Alex Howells
Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D -- Astinus On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:17 +0100, Tom Martin wrote: Hi all, Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the ranks. His

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Robert Clark (hyakuhei)

2007-01-09 Thread Alex Howells
On 09/01/07, Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Robert Clark (also known as hyakuhei), our latest addition helping with forensics. Everyone better read up on securely scrubbing those hard drives ;) Robert is joining from Aberystwyth (that's in

[gentoo-dev] GOOD HOME REQUIRED -- Poweredge 2950 :)

2007-01-23 Thread Alex Howells
Hiya All, I seem to be making a habit of 'For Sale' notices lately; guess I like to keep decent hardware within the community, and see it continue to run Gentoo :) I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 of the following spec: * 2 x Intel Xeon 5110, 1.6GHz/4MB, Dual-Core * 16GB FB 667mhz Memory

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing D into the tree

2007-03-09 Thread Alex Howells
On 09/03/07, Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I forgot to add that the dev-lang/dmd-bin ebuild might also require the special DMD license to be included in the tree. I'm attaching a copy of the license. I'm not much of a legal person, but it seems like this license is different from