Hi Lucas, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:43:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The Tails project is a Debian-based live system focusing on privacy and > anonymity. For more information about Tails and their relationship with > Debian, see: > https://tails.boum.org/ > https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Tails > https://tails.boum.org/contribute/relationship_with_upstream/ > https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/debian/ > http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails/ > Tails is organizing a two-day hackfest and a contributors summit in > July. They are requesting sponsorship from Debian for the events, in > order to cover travel costs for contributors. Their overall budget is > between 10kEUR and 20kEUR. > Given that: > - they are a derivative working closely with Debian (and being a live > system, having their own public identity makes sense) > - they are doing a lot of their work in Debian -- the hackfest could be > seen as a Debian sprint > - they are addressing important issues, and clearly contribute to Debian > having something to say about such issues > I am planning to allocate 5000 EUR. As you say, this is a derivative, rather than a pure blend. While Tails seems to be doing great work, and I'm happy that they're trying to work closely with Debian, the fact that they *are* a derivative rather than a pure blend makes me question spending Debian money on this. Nothing says a pure blend couldn't have its own public identity, and if they were a pure blend, I would have no concern about the expenditure. But since it's a derivative rather than a pure blend, how do we know that in /this/ case, the work at the sprint is going to benefit Debian? The website has a very admirable statement about minimizing the delta with Debian, but is the size of this delta published and tracked anywhere? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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