All Candidates: Do you plan to be prominently visible duri..

Anthony Towns <aj.DeleteThis@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: [...]
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:44:46PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > and I really haven't seen much from Sam during his term.
>
> For example, there's been: [6 dda posts and a blog category]
> which is pretty comparable to either my own Steve's communication
> individually during my term, if you exclude the dunc-tank stuff. I'm
> assuming we're not looking for a DPL to create a hugely controversial
> project just for the visibility it gives the DPL. [...]

Erm, announcements != communication. I think the dunc-tank was quite
an example of the difference between the two, with various inputs
seemingly ignored.

Now, I'm hardly the most involved with the DPL, but I've had
substantive replies from Sam the two or three times I've contacted
him, compared with responses (seldom replies) followed by non-response
from previous DPLs. (It wasn't a language thing AFAICT, as lazily I
used English with all three.) So my limited experience of Sam has
been that he's improved communications.

I'd be interested to know if other DDs felt the same, as well as any
comments from those who've interacted with these candidates.

Are any of the DDs planning to automate announcements at all, similar
to Aigars Mahinov's idea on lines 428/429 of last year's debate?

Oh and is Marc Haber wanting to cash in this pledge:-
# <SamHocevar> If I fail to properly report, I shall offer full
reimbursement for your annual Debian subscription and a right to spank
me at the next DebConf. [22:48]
?

Thanks,
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:26:00PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Do you have any suggestions yourself of things that you'd like a DPL
> to do to raise visibility?

As long as the regular "bits" are actually posted, I'm fine with it.

Additionally, it may be a good idea to have regular "IRC conferences"
where the DPL is available to answer questions. A good time would
probably be a week after bits have been posted so that the questions
that the bits have raised can be answered. But that's only an idea,
not a "must", as long as the regular "bits" actually appear.

Greetings
Marc

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Hi,

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Saturday 15 March 2008 22:40, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Additionally, it may be a good idea to have regular "IRC conferences"
> > where the DPL is available to answer questions. A good time would
> > probably be a week after bits have been posted so that the questions
> > that the bits have raised can be answered. But that's only an idea,
> > not a "must", as long as the regular "bits" actually appear.
>
> I actually like the idea. "IRC conference" might sound a bit too much, rather
> something like "IRC feedback time" or such...

As a regular IRC user, I have nothing against trying that. It would make a
good excuse to create #debian-meeting (similar to #ubuntu-meeting with
facilities to create IRC logs, a topic with a schedule and a bot to
translate hours in any local timezone).

But I don't see IRC as a very effective "mass-communication mechanism" [1]
and as such, it would probably be more useful to discuss the status of
various projects and inform people interested to help so that they are
up-to-date and can help effectively.

Cheers,

[1] Because not everybody uses IRC (Moritz for example doesn't use it
often), because it's difficult to refer to an IRC discussion and because
the ideas discussed "live" are not always well thought out.
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