On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:17:12 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 01:55:16AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Hi all, > > Ditto, thanks Paul for this wrapup-and-ping message. > > Annual face-to-face meeting at DebConf, perhaps similar to what we > > had at DebConf10, hopefully with a more diverse set of derivatives > > represented ;) > > A periodic BoF sounds reasonable. Of course attending DebConf is not > always possible, but we should then make very clear that, as DebConf, > we *invite* representative from derivatives to attend. That is I was wondering if having a BoF/miniconf/debian-and-its-derivatives-morning at other events would be worth while too? They don't have to be big and structured, just a way of people to meet face to face when they can. > > Census of Debian derivatives. Which ones still exist, how are they > <snip> > > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census > > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Ubuntu > > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusTemplate > > That is a very useful initiative, thanks. I remember that people from > -www meant to revamp the webpages on the subject and that they will > welcome help. Moreover, we need coordination about where to store the > information. I believe it does make sense to start from scratch and > then, after a given cut off date, discuss with -www how to migrate the > data to a more stable place. (Or, better, given that sometimes distro > appear and disappear, we might say that they will be moved to www.d.o > after a while.) I tend to disagree with moving the derivatives pages off the wiki, as it requires derivatives to go through -www to change information about themselves. 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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