Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

[Sruthi Chandran <srud@disroot.org>]

On 3/20/24 00:31, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote:

> Hi
>       Andreas,
>       
>       
>       Em 19/03/2024 11:46, Andreas Tille escreveu:
>       
> >         
> >         If this question is whether we should target for less power
> >         consumption
> >         
> >         I consider this topic as perfectly non-controversal and part of
> >         our
> >         
> >         mission statement.  I can't imagine any user wants to spent more
> >         money
> >         
> >         on energy to run a Debian system or might be happy about seeking
> >         for the
> >         
> >         next power plug to recharge the laptop battery.  Probably also
> >         people
> >         
> >         who do not believe in the need to reduce the carbon footprint
> >         will be
> >         
> >         interested in less energy consumption and I consider this as
> >         part of our
> >         
> >         mission statement.
> >         
> >       
>       
>       In your page, you wrote:
>       
>       
>       "I would encourage everyone to minimize air travel whenever
>       possible. Fortunately, I've noticed a tendency among Debian
>       community members to prefer land travel over flights anyway."
>       
>       
>       How about travels between continents, and traveks in
>       regions/continents without the same train network you have there
>       in Europe?
>       
>     
    I think opting for reduced air travel (and/or carbon footprint)
    should be a personal decision and not DPL's. But what I, as DPL,
    would do is to evaluate if the "cost" of travel is proportional to
    the benefit of travel.
>       
>       
> > I hope my platform was clear enough that
> >         I'm in favour of increasing the
> >         
> >         diversity in Debian.  
>       
>       I read you page yesterday but I would like to know what ideias do
>       you have to increase gender representation and geographic
>       diversity?
>       
>       
>       I'm sure everybody is in favor to increase diversity, but what can
>       be done in practice?
>       
>

Some ideas I have are:

• more focused spending of diversity budget to ensure the benefits reach eligible people
• having a delegated team focusing on diversity
• bring to limelight the diversity we already have. People from under-represented groups will free comfortable joining the community if they know there are similar people in the community already.
  
• getting Debian local groups more active to increase Geographical diversity
  

>       
>       Best regards,
>       
>       
>

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