Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > Tom H wrote:
>> >> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> >>> What is a SIG?
>> >>
>> >> It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group.
>> >>
>> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs
>> >
>> > Sorry. Term predates Linus Torvalds let alone Fedora ;)
>> > IIRC I came across it as an engineering student in the early 60's.
>>
>> Of course, but within Linux distributions, it's a Fedora thing.
>
> I respectfully disagree. Special Interest Groups, SIGs, have been
> around for a very long time. Fedora may also use the term and may be
> keeping it warm these days but the use of it has been in general
> computing for decades. Many of these are quite well known
> conferences. (Anyone been to a SIGGRAPH lately?) For example these
> and this is just one association. There are many others too.
I was simply making the point that, when the OP mentioning SIGs within
the context of his issue with Debian documentation and of a Linux
distribution, I understood his reference to be the Fedora definition
of SIG, nothing more and nothing less.
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