also sprach Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com> [2010.09.09.0703 +0200]: > > Alexander, who still wonders, why everything press related is > > always a PITA, when debconf is involved > > I can't speak for always, but I can say that for almost the year > leading up to approximately one or two weeks prior to DebConf, > unbeknownst to most, including myself, there was no active DebConf > press team lead. While there are certainly lessons to be learned > here, this situation has, at least for now, been addressed. I am pretty sure I had communicated my inavailability rather early in the process. Do I need to look through my mailboxes to produce proof? Fact is that there's been an SSH account on one of my machines for several press people since October 2009, because SQL access to debconf.org is IP-based, and it was easier to give other people access that way. And Alexander: I am sorry that it's been a PITA for you to deal with me (did you ever?), but consider that I picked up the pieces of DebConf press at a time, when Debian didn't even have a press team and dealing with Joey was consistently a massive PITA too. That said, I am quite aware that I was never a good team lead, never documented the processes. I also never wanted to do that job[0]. I have never understood why DebConf needed its own press team. I always considered it synergetically better if the Debian press team offered their experience, contacts, and resources for the task. Maybe now is the time that we can finally fuse the two efforts. Although I cannot reliably allocate time to Debian yet (not quite yet), due to my real life, I'll do whatever I can or whatever is required of me to make that happen. 0. Between the years of 2000 and 2006, I was very active in the .de/.ch market and had many contacts all over Europe. I offered multiple times to help out and join the press team, but Joey never bothered to react. Since 2006, I've lost most of my contacts and my enthusiasm for doing press work. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems in africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. in america they call it golf.
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