Quoting Pirate Praveen (2014-08-13 10:34:39) > On Wednesday 13 August 2014 11:35 AM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: >> What Jonas meant here IIUC is it should be about *Debian* and not >> something else like some people proposed of making "private >> communication" as theme of it, then having name miniDebconf doesn't >> make sense. >> > > Isn't this too restrictive an approach? And also more like > proprietary/trademark protection kind of approach (we will only talk > about debian). Vasudev did understaand me correctly: his responses are good clarifications for what I meant. > We respond to current challenges and Freedom Box is a great example. > How different is focusing on private communications different from the > goal of Freedom Box? FreedomBox is a good example to illustrate the issue raised by Vasudev and me: FreedomBox is a project developed inside Debian, and FreedomBox aims to be a product of Free Software. You can talk about FreedomBox without the Debian part, and you can use FreedomBox only talking about it as being a Debian system without using the FreedomBox term at all and without discussing the agenda defined by Eben Moglen at all. Similarly, you can make three different conferences in Kerala with different agendas - one is about "Free Software", the other about "Private Communication and avoiding NSA", and the third about "Debian". All three conferences could be the exact same speakers talking about the same topics, and the audience could be exact same people. It would still invite for the speakers to frame their talks differently and would spawn different kind of atmosphere and discussions among attendants. I do *not* say that you *must* make this MiniDebconf in a specific way, but I am *encouraging* you to frame it as a *Debian* thing. I am *not* suggesting you to do *more* or *different* work as you do already. Whatever you do, I am sure it will be a great event! :-) - Jonas -- * 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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