On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 01:55:16 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: [...] > Where do we want the Debian Derivatives Front Desk to go from here? [...] > Some thoughts: [...] > Annual face-to-face meeting at DebConf, perhaps similar to what we had > at DebConf10, hopefully with a more diverse set of derivatives > represented ;) Getting to debconf is generally non-trivial, so i expect you'll have trouble getting people along. That said, I'd love to make it along :) > Census of Debian derivatives. Which ones still exist, how are they > doing, what is their relationship with Debian, places for Debian folks > to ask them questions, published resources (bug trackers, patches, > repositories) etc. Results can be placed on the website and more Sounds sensible. (I know gNewSense doesn't yet provide most of those things, but I'd like to be able to). > detailed info on the wiki. First start should be to audit the list of > child distros on the website. Updated in an ongoing manner, but > announce a "census" annually. For an example of what to put in the eg, in the dwn? > census, take a look at these pages I just created: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Ubuntu > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusTemplate I've put in a very basic gNewSense page. > Any more thoughts, ideas or folks who could volunteer to help > implement the above? I'd be interested in seeing if/how derivatives can collaborate on their infrastructure. There must be lots of things that we share that we could stop duplicating. (this has been partly discussed on this list in the past). > PS: it would be great if more folks could join the IRC channel > (#debian-derivatives on irc.debian.org aka OFTC). Is there more activity then this list? I'm trying to keep my irc channels list sane. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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