Re: Updates

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

2014-09-04 00:56 या दिवशी Vipin Nair ने लिहीले :
> Yes we do not have a lots of people with expertise or the willingness
> to do
> this and I sincerely appreciate what you guys are doing. Having said
> that,
> I do not understand what we are trying to achieve by calling this
> event
> 'Mini DebConf' and it not being Debian centric. Giving it a generic
> name
> which also includes a Debian track is perfectly fine, but when you
> call it
> 'Mini DebConf', you are setting the expectations wrong.

We are strongly suggesting Debian part of the Free Software community 
and we are providing rest of the Free Software community a chance to 
interact with debian community and share each others experience.

It Mini Debian Conference because the debian community is organizing the 
event and invite the rest of the Free Software community to come and 
join us.

> I would any day pick a small room with enthusiasts and interested
> folks
> hacking on Debian in one corner over a big event with hundreds of
> people
> with minimal Debian.

Sure, go ahead and organize such events. Nobody is stopping you or 
anyone.

> Also, I do not agree with the "Its all free software and Debian
> supports Free
> software, so free software talks are fine" argument. Tomorrow if I
> create
> my own OS with the Linux kernel and call it Debian, is it acceptable?
> Its not because:
>
> 1) Its not the right thing to do because its not 'Debian'.
> 2) Its a trademark[1] and I am not legally allowed to do it.

The difference is, the debian community is organizing this event to 
reach out to the rest of the Free Software community. Linus Torvalds was 
invited to talk at this years debconf not because he is a debian 
contributor as per your definition (he even uses Fedora and he was 
talking about linux kernel not packaging linux kernel in debian).

> There may not be registered trademarks for the names 'Debconf' and
> 'Mini DebConf' so legally we are fine with it but is it the right
> thing
> to do because there is nothing legally preventing us from doing so?
>
> In case you are still not convinced, have at look at other Mini
> DebConf's
> organized around the world, have a look into the kind of talks they
> have
> had, compare it to this list and see if you can see any resemblance.

There is some merit in this argument, so may be we should call it as 
"Debian Exchange" or something, which means "debian is inviting everyone 
to learn and share at an event it is organizing".

Another difference from the rest of the conferences is that, there are 
many contributors to make those event debian only.