-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 12-09-20 11:19 AM, [email protected] a écrit : > Hey, thanks a lot for your input, Fabian! > > I wasn't aware Trisquel is still mostly one person effort. If he doesn't stay in contact with the community, who is in contact with you, guys? I wonder. Are you here by yourself, hanging around, helping with support, promotion and translation?
There is *lots* of activity here, but as the list name implies, it's users, not devs. The wall seems tall between both types. I personally don't need much help or at least very often, as I understand Trisquel is based off Ubuntu and inherits its bugs too. As such, I know some bugs won't be fixed for 5.5 at all, and won't for 6.0 either if they aren't in Ubuntu. When/if I have bugs, I mostly report them in Ubuntu knowing they will be fixed in Trisquel at the next release. Regarding promotion I focus on showing people that a 100% distribution is functional and can also be very helpful when testing hardware. > I am aware of the recent development in the Debian Project towards freedom. > I've just subscribed to the mailing list pointed out by you. This is one of the reasons Fundația Ceata financially supports debian.org.ro. > > How many Trisquel developers are there? I imagine that Ubuntu is still different from Debian and not all of them will switch. Plus, while the Debian Project will probably move to 100% Free Software, the community will not adopt a Free Software culture over night, I imagine. They have been using the term GNU/Linux for the Linux-based GNU operating system for some time now, but the Debian Handbook (recently released) still includes lot of erroneous references to Linux as operating system (except for the first chapters). And the Free Software culture is getting even slower to local group members who act based on their own judgement, I know this for a fact. The community changes, and becomes what their users are over time. It depends upon us, users, to influence such changes. The book is freely licensed so nothing is stopping anyone to make such corrections either as a contribution or as a fork of it. Regarding free software culture, I think the LibrePlanet structure is great to organize advocacy locally. Take a good look at the links I provided. > > I don't see why registering a LibrePlanet in Romania would be a good thing, providing we already have a Free Software and Free Culture Activist Foundation, called Fundația Ceata (also present on the LibrePlanet wiki). LibrePlanet doesn't refer to Free Culture too, it's only about Free Software. Plus, I oppose to globalization and "localization"; it's not practical to have a Romania, Moldova, etc local group if there are other countries and diaspora communities which are speaking Romanian. Ceata (means 'group' in Romanian and it's a recursive acronym for 'Ceata eliberează artele și tehnologiile actuale' - en. Ceata eliberates arts and modern technologies) has its own identity and a 4-year history. If your group is already in the LibrePlanet wiki, that's very much what I was referring to! Very nice. What is the uRL? The idea is to have a global, recognizable structure where people looking for you will find you immediately. Try searching for "Romania" at LibrePlanet.org. LibrePlanet is really not *exclusively* about free software. > > Regarding the trademark, I don't think Rubén will go against a "local" group of Trisquel users at trisquel.ro. Nobody (not even Canonical, RedHat, etc) does it. It felt just right to ask for permission. We will take an independent decision on the Ceata administration mailing list. For language support, I agree it's a good idea. Whatever best suits your needs, do it! But as I said before, focusing too much on Trisquel may burn you in th elong term, just my opinion. > > Thanks once again, Fabian! > > Tiberiu Cheers, F. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBbPlgACgkQfUcTXFrypNXImACfY4SY+EMrUoRx3yNJCbYTV2WU wA8An1oXSaaS9XueUu+WcY2Exp7Jjuhz =VlZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
