[Bernelle, please don't top-post] On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> wrote: > I bought Debian wine @Debconf9 in Spain, and wonder there would be > another Debconf wine in "winelands" beautiful South Africa :) Quoting Bernelle Verster (2016-04-03 11:15:42) > I think beer would be a better bet :) I say this tongue in cheek as my > personal preference is beer, but I do have two other reasons for > saying this: > > 1. I don't know any winemakers in SA who are passionate about Debian > or open source generally, mainly because I don't know winemakers. But > I'm sure the community can rustle someone up. > > 2. Many of our open source community members (specifically in the Cape > Linux Users Group are avid beer brewers. One, Honingklip [1] brewery's > Mark Ter Morshuizen even made it his day-job. We have a local brewing > club in the Cape, called the South-Yeasters, and they have an annual > competition to make interesting beers. So we could brew a Debian beer, > have a few requirements and let the brewers come up with their > offerings. The logo design on its own would intrigue me! > > E.g. the beer could be an amber ale (to go with Debian red) ... , it > has to be an open source recipe ... I dunno, something like that. A rule for the competition could be that it should be a fork of FREE BEER¹ - i.e. use same freely licensed brand and recipe. I am not much of a beer drinker myself, so bonus points for also making forks of OpenCola². - Jonas ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Beer ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_%28drink%29 -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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