Support DebConf6's abrotman petition!

Hello,

I'm sorry if you find this petition as spam, but it really isn't: This
is a for a good cause, friendship. :)

To:  Debian community

Alexander Brotman, abrotman, is a guy from Philadelphia, US. He is a
dumbass because he can come to DebConf6 [http://www.debconf.org/], he is
a nice Debian user, helps a lot at #debian on irc.debian.org, but feels
himself out of context on a place like DebConf.

He has said previously that he would like to have a DebConf at the US,
but honestly, that is a bit over reality, at least for three or four
years from now. The closest he could get a DebConf will be this one, on
Mexico. The flight costs for him 350 USD, some people are spending
almost 2000$ to come, and he is still undecided.

I want every person out there that shares my point of view that he would
definitively fit in DebConf to sign this petition, since he is my friend
and I want to embarrase him a bit on public , but I'd be glad to have
it on DebConf with lots of other nice people.

Yes, this is probably a very useless petition, but please, sign this if
you support friendship and international drinking exchanges. :)

You can catch him and slap him under the nickname 'abrotman' on
irc.debian.org.

Sincerely,

Re: Support DebConf6's abrotman petition!

| Subject: Support DebConf6's abrotman petition!

ITYM "FTWCA abrotman".

HTH, HAND.
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Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

Hi,

Anthony Towns schrieb:

> If the secretary sincerely believes the proposal has a 3:1 requirement,
> does that mean it does? I think you're better off looking at the
> constitution, personally. As it happens, it says nothing about implicit
> changes to foundation documents, or even about having to act in accord
> with them.

Then it's clearly time for editorial changes to the constitution.

   Simon (ducking&running)

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:22:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I guess I could:
> 
> - ignore that the Project seems to have gone insane and issued a
>   position statement that I can't grok, and continue treating GFDL works as
>   RC for etch
> - ignore the Project Secretary's interpretation that this amendment
>   implicitly modifies the DFSG, and continue treating GFDL works as RC for
>   etch
> - accept that I don't understand how the Project as a whole interprets the
>   DFSG, and defer to either the Technical Committee or the FTP Team
>   regarding the RC-ness of all licensing bugs
> - start a new GR
> - resign and let somebody else deal with it
> - have an existential crisis

I vote for the latter. It results in the least number of problems for
all of us. Well, except you 

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Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:55:57 +0100 (CET), Xavier Roche <roche <at> httrack.com> said:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
>> > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake!
>> everything that is not hardware is software

> So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have to provide the
> sources (the DNA full sequence) if I want to give a kitten to someone,
> following the "free" spirit ? :p

cat is software: (though I don't know what DNA or kittens have to do with
anything)

# man cat

CAT(1)                           User Commands                          CAT(1)

NAME
       cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output

SYNOPSIS
       cat [OPTION] [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
...

(and yes, the sources are available)

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Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

Hi,

On Sunday 19 February 2006 04:15, Hubert Chan wrote:
> cat is software: (though I don't know what DNA or kittens have to do with
> anything)

cat is obsolete. please use dog instead.

Description: Enhanced replacement for cat
 dog writes the contents of each given file, URL or standard
 input to standard output. It currently supports file, http
 and raw URLs. It is designed as a compatible, but enhanced
 replacement for cat.

regards,
	Holger

Re: Re: Mail Delivery (failure mailabruf <at> mail.tchibo.de)

Re: Flyer Re-print for CeBIT

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:05, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > More than 13 CDs  How about: "... at least 2 DVDs or 14 CDs"?
>
> Well, that way you assume there won't be _less_ CDs in the future... :)

Somehow I feel that this is likely a valid assumption...

-- vbi

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Re: Re: Mail Delivery (failure mailabruf <at> mail.tchibo.de)

On Mon, February 20, 2006 18:11, Erwin Müller wrote:
> Stichwort:  "Brunchrezepte"

oh, you made this up just to post to d-c once in a lifetime :)

SCNR,
Christian.
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