[Debian-NP-Commits] r54 - trunk/docs/report
Enrico Zini
debian-np-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:20:55 -0600
Author: enrico
Date: Thu Jun 17 12:20:54 2004
New Revision: 54
Modified:
trunk/docs/report/01intro
trunk/docs/report/02participants
Log:
Cleaned participant list
Added the bagunça goals brainstormed during the bagunça to 01intro
Modified: trunk/docs/report/01intro
==============================================================================
--- trunk/docs/report/01intro (original)
+++ trunk/docs/report/01intro Thu Jun 17 12:20:54 2004
@@ -230,3 +230,81 @@
airfare: estimating $1300 for each flight =3D3D 6500
Visas: $300
Total: ~$7500
+
+------------------------------------ Goals for the meeting
+
+
+<h1>Goals for the Bagunça</h1>
+
+<!--Goals of DebianNP participation at Debconf4/FISL
+------------------------------------------------
+-->
+
+<ul>
+<li>Debian NP Server
+ <ul>
+ <li>Create an overview of what Debian NP Server can look like
+ <li>Involved groups: Riseup Resist Autistici/Inventati Comodino, Indimedia
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Debian NP Workstation
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Debian NP Intranet server
+ <ul>
+ <li> Zufus is interested
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Debian NP Terminal server
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Cooperation of different groups
+ <ul>
+ <li>Strategizing on collaboration of different participating groups
+ (freegeek,riseup, skolelinux, praksys, freeflows(?) ) projects and how to
+ work together and identifying other like-minded groups/projects to connect
+ with, as well as with the larger free-software community.
+ <li>Exploit face-to-face opportunities for increased social connection
+ <li>Map technical capabilities of involved people
+ <li>Listing other realities we know that could be interested in participating to the works
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Technology
+ <ul>
+ <li>Familiarize group with the "Custom Debian Distribution" Framework, and
+focus on integrating into that framework
+ <li>Improvement of installer and hardware detection (specifically doing
+custom package selection with the debian installer)
+ <li>Work on Skolelinux metapackages and CD building projects
+ <li>Freegeek additions to debconf questions and filing wishlist bugs for low
+priority installation questions, adding custom configurations that
+freegeek has already done into base debian packages
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Phylosophy
+ <ul>
+ <li>Creating specifications from social point of view
+ <li>Reflection on the global/local nature of software, localization and
+finding ways to make Debian NP easy for people like E-riders to
+customize for a specific locality.
+
+<li>Planning
+ <ul>
+ <li>Shape future of Debian NP development
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Funding discussion
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Final reporting
+ <ul>
+ <li>Having a plan the Debian-NP Server
+ </ul>
+
+</ul>
Modified: trunk/docs/report/02participants
==============================================================================
--- trunk/docs/report/02participants (original)
+++ trunk/docs/report/02participants Thu Jun 17 12:20:54 2004
@@ -1,75 +1,104 @@
---------------------------- Who we where
+--------------------------- Who we where: biographies, goals and related groups
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html>
-<head>
-<title>Bagunça Short Bios</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-<h1>Short bios of the Bagunça people</h1>
+ * Enrico Zini [enrico]
-<a name="enrico"></a>
-<p><b>Enrico Zini</b></p>
-
-<p>Free Software Developer and independent researcher, intersted in
+Free Software Developer and independent researcher, intersted in
ergonomics, social aspects of software, digital divide, accessibility
-and networking people and groups together.</p> <p>Among other
-projects, I develop the Debtags system in Debian and I'm interested in
-seeing the Custom Debian Distributions work.</p>
-
-<p>Involved in:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.bfsf.it">Bologna Free Software Forum</a>
-<a href="http://www.bfsf.it/wiki/ThePresentation">(English description)</a>
-<li><a href="http://www.comodino.org">Comodino.org</a>
-<li><a href="http://www.acabnews.it">ACAB News</a>
-</ul>
+and networking people and groups together.
+
+Among other projects, I develop the Debtags system in Debian and I'm interested in
+seeing the Custom Debian Distributions work.
+
+Involved in (among other things):
+
+ - <a href="http://www.bfsf.it">Bologna Free Software Forum</a> <a href="http://www.bfsf.it/wiki/ThePresentation">(English description)</a>
+ - <a href="http://www.comodino.org">Comodino.org</a>
+ - <a href="http://www.acabnews.it">ACAB News</a>
+
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+
+ - Benefit for Comodino
+ - Try to work together with other groups
+ - Share work with other groups to ease the load of all
+ - Lubricating NGO infrastructure
+ - Doing later some easier E-Riding
+ - Play with social aspects of software
+ - Play with extreme customization and bridging global cooperation with local
+ customization
-<a name="zufus"></a>
-<p><b>Marco Presi (Zufus)</b></p>
-<p>PhD Student in Applied Physics. I have been involved with Free
+
+ * Marco Presi [Zufus]
+
+PhD Student in Applied Physics. I have been involved with Free
Software for several years, mainly promoting Free Software in Italian
Public Administration working mainly with Linux User Group of
-Rome.</p>
+Rome.
-<p>Recently I entered Debian, and I am willing to become a NP
-developer.</p>
+Formerly very active in Rome, cooperating with Free Software Foundation
+ Europe and Assoli, doing parliament lobbying and other stuff
-<a name="guillaume"></a>
-<p><b>guillaume pernot (praKsys)</b></p>
+Debian Developer, maintaining "pointless" among other packages
+Recently I entered Debian, and I am willing to become a NP
+developer.
-<p>I earn my life installing and maintaining debian system (servers
-and desktop) for NPOs in France.</p>
+Goals for the Bagunça:
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.praksys.org">praksys.org</a>
-</ul>
+ - Got to know Debian-NP from Mako and Enrico since several months, and
+ interested in getting in to work in the fertile Pisa NGO reality (Fair
+ Trade, Computer recycling) and would like to take part in the development
+ - Secret agenda: meet people, know people, know technical and cultural
+ aspects, share knowledge, discover that there are guys from Pisa here
+ Main: get involved in Debian NP development
+
+
+ * Guillaume Pernot [guillaume]
+
+I earn my life installing and maintaining debian system (servers
+and desktop) for NPOs in France.
+ - Working for Praksys in France (org spreading Debian free software)
-<a name="mako"></a>
-<p><b>Benjamin Mako Hill</b></p>
+Involved in (among other things):
-<p>I'm a Free Software consultant and intellectual property
+ - <a href="http://www.praksys.org">praksys.org</a>
+
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+
+ - Secret agenda: aim is not to stay as an association but to build a
+ cooperative (limited liability company) with a more collaborative point of
+ view (networking users, developers, institutions). They have some clients,
+ not only setting up servers but also desktop machines (10 clients using only
+ Debian Linux for their everyday work (OOo, Konqueror, mail, sql-ledger))
+ - Business is migrating from windows to Free Software platforms
+ - Partnership with computer brokers (dispatchers of used computers)
+ - Commercial targets: NP orgs, schools, cooperatives, companies
+ - Tech platform now is based on Woody because it started 1 year and a half ago
+ and wanted to benefit from security patches for everything which is exposed
+ to internet, and use backports for the rest
+ - Have central monitoring tools
+ - Need LDAP servers too
+
+
+ * Benjamin Mako Hill [mako]
+
+I'm a Free Software consultant and intellectual property
researcher. I've hacked on lots of Free Software projects including
Debian. I'm a two-time delegate of the Debian Leader and handle
finances and hardware for the project in addition to sitting on the
board of directors of Software in the Public Interest. I am the author
of many articles, papers, and talks including the Free Software
-Project Management HOWTO.</p>
+Project Management HOWTO.
-<p>My Homepage with a list to my projects/affiliations:</p>
+My Homepage with a list to my projects/affiliations:
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://mako.yukidoke.org">http://mako.yukidoke.org</a></li>
-</ul>
+ - <a href="http://mako.yukidoke.org">http://mako.yukidoke.org</a>
-<a name="vagrant"></a>
-<p><b>Vagrant Cascadian</b></p>
-<p>Worked with the trailing edge of technology since the mid-90s. Involved
+ * Vagrant Cascadian [Vagrant]
+
+Worked with the trailing edge of technology since the mid-90s. Involved
with <a href="http://freegeek.org">Freegeek</a>, as a system administrator and
mad scientist since it's doors opened fall of 2000. In 2001 developed a
"diskless" terminal distribution based on debian, which evolved into "<a
@@ -77,12 +106,23 @@
"<a href="http://cvs.freegeek.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freekbox2/">Freekbox
2</a>" distribution, based on Debian's woody release. former coordinator of
FG's "<a href="http://www.freegeek.org/build.php">Build Program</a>". Always
-looking to find and develop tools to end computer consumerism.</p>
+looking to find and develop tools to end computer consumerism.
+
+ - Author of lessdisks
+ - Freegreek computer reuse/recicling organization
+ - Collaborative Technologies subprojects of freegeek, they contact other
+ NGO to help them move to free software
+
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+
+ - Moving to stdized debian distribution
+ - Freegeek is also teaching people, so they're interested too in making things easy
+
+
-<a name="micah"></a>
-<p><b>Micah Anderson</b></p>
+ * Micah Anderson [micah]
-<p> I am mostly a system administrator working on creating grassroots
+I am mostly a system administrator working on creating grassroots
democratic technology alternatives to the existing corporate
structures. In order to meet the technology needs of those working for
radical social change I've helped start the Red Cursor Collective
@@ -93,253 +133,128 @@
architecting and supporting the existing technical infrastructure
needed to support it over the years.
-<p>With regards to Debian NP, I am particularly interested in creating
-a server version of Debian NP.</p>
+With regards to Debian NP, I am particularly interested in creating
+a server version of Debian NP.
+
+ - Started with the WTO protest in Seattle
+ - Worked with Indimedia for many years for setting up the global networking
+ infrastructure (web, irc, mail)
+ - 1 and a half years in NM process in Debian
+ - Maintains a bittorrent replacement (bittornado) and a kernel patch for ???
+
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+
+ - Benefit for riseup, servers for radical activists
+ - email, websites...
+ - Try to work together with other groups
+ - Share work with other groups to ease the load of all
-<a name="alex"/>
-<p><b>Alex de Landgraaf</b></p>
-<p>Full-time AI and CS student, part-time programmer, and in his spare
+ * Alex de Landgraaf [alex]
+
+Full-time AI and CS student, part-time programmer, and in his spare
time he's known to do some open source coding. Started Morphix in late
2002/ early 2003, and has been busy with livecds ever since. Although
sympathetic to the NGO/NP cause, he's not politically active (and
has no wish to be).
-<a name="autistici_inventati"></a>
-<p><b>ale & phasa</b></p>
-<p><tt>ale</tt> and <tt>phasa</tt> are members of the
+ * Alessandro Martinez TODO [ale]
+
+Together with <tt>phasa</tt> are members of the
<b>Autistici/Inventati</b> collective, which was born in 2000 to promote
digital rights and privacy, offering secure and anonymous services to
-its community of users. </p>
+its community of users.
+
+ - Part of Autistici/Inventati, maintaining a server for radical political groups and people
-<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.inventati.org/">inventati.org</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.autistici.org/">autistici.org</a></li>
+See:
+ - <a href="http://www.inventati.org/">inventati.org</a></li>
+ - <a href="http://www.autistici.org/">autistici.org</a></li>
-</p>
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+ - Get a better design and infrastructure for the servers
+ - See how much cooperation (not only technical) between similar projects is
+ possible to attain
-<a name="resist"></a>
-<p><b>Blaine Cook</b></p>
-<p>I am an everything person, and spend half my time coding, half my time
-doing system administration. Anything less, and I go crazy. I have been involved with the resist!ca collective
-for several years, providing alternative [[secure]] communications infrastructure
-for activists. I have recently started working with Radical Designs (dot org)
-on an open-source content management system that has been designed around and for
-activist mobilisations and activist and non-profit groups.
+ * TODO [phasa]
+
+Together with <tt>ale</tt> are members of the
+<b>Autistici/Inventati</b> collective, which was born in 2000 to promote
+digital rights and privacy, offering secure and anonymous services to
+its community of users.
-<br>
-<a href="index.html">Index</a>
+ - LDAP and server configuration hacker for Autistici/Inventati
-</body>
-</html>
+See:
+ - <a href="http://www.inventati.org/">inventati.org</a></li>
+ - <a href="http://www.autistici.org/">autistici.org</a></li>
+
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+ - we should define a general schema(not ldap only) for address our different problem
-<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
-Local variables:
-sgml-indent-step: 0
-sgml-indent-data: 0
-End:
--->
-
-
---------------------------- Who we where :: goals
-
-
-<html>
-<head>
-<title>Bagunça Goals</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<h1>Goals for the Bagunça</h1>
-
-<!--Goals of DebianNP participation at Debconf4/FISL
-------------------------------------------------
--->
-
-<ul>
-<li>Debian NP Server
- <ul>
- <li>Create an overview of what Debian NP Server can look like
- <li>Involved groups: Riseup Resist Autistici/Inventati Comodino, Indimedia
- </ul>
-
-<li>Debian NP Workstation
- <ul>
- <li>
- </ul>
-
-<li>Debian NP Intranet server
- <ul>
- <li> Zufus is interested
- </ul>
-
-<li>Debian NP Terminal server
- <ul>
- <li>
- </ul>
-
-<li>Cooperation of different groups
- <ul>
- <li>Strategizing on collaboration of different participating groups
- (freegeek,riseup, skolelinux, praksys, freeflows(?) ) projects and how to
- work together and identifying other like-minded groups/projects to connect
- with, as well as with the larger free-software community.
- <li>Exploit face-to-face opportunities for increased social connection
- <li>Map technical capabilities of involved people
- <li>Listing other realities we know that could be interested in participating to the works
- </ul>
-
-<li>Technology
- <ul>
- <li>Familiarize group with the "Custom Debian Distribution" Framework, and
-focus on integrating into that framework
- <li>Improvement of installer and hardware detection (specifically doing
-custom package selection with the debian installer)
- <li>Work on Skolelinux metapackages and CD building projects
- <li>Freegeek additions to debconf questions and filing wishlist bugs for low
-priority installation questions, adding custom configurations that
-freegeek has already done into base debian packages
- </ul>
-
-<li>Phylosophy
- <ul>
- <li>Creating specifications from social point of view
- <li>Reflection on the global/local nature of software, localization and
-finding ways to make Debian NP easy for people like E-riders to
-customize for a specific locality.
-
-<li>Planning
- <ul>
- <li>Shape future of Debian NP development
- </ul>
-
-<li>Funding discussion
- <ul>
- <li>
- </ul>
-
-<li>Final reporting
- <ul>
- <li>Having a plan the Debian-NP Server
- </ul>
-
-</ul>
-
-
-<h2>People</h2>
-
-<li>Vagrant
-<ul>
-<li>- Freegreek computer reuse/recicling organization
-<li> - Collaborative Technologies subprojects of freegeek, they contact other
- NGO to help them move to free software
-<li> - Moving to stdized debian distribution
- - Author of lessdisks
-<li> - Freegeek is also teaching people, so they're interested too in making things
- easy
- </ul>
-
-<li>Enrico
-<ul>
-<li> - Benefit for Comodino
-<li> - Try to work together with other groups
- - Share work with other groups to ease the load of all
-<li> - Lubricating NGO infrastructure
-<li> - Doing later some easier E-Riding
-<li> - Play with social aspects of software
-<li> - Play with extreme customization and bridging global cooperation with local
- customization
- </ul>
-<li>Kalfa
- <ul>
- <li>- Part of Comodino
-<li> - Debian Developer part of the CDD stuff
-<li> - Here in Porto Alegre for the CDD stuff and infrastructure
-<li> - Maintains Python related packages like jabber glue code; maintains OCR
+ * Cosimo Alfarano [kalfa]
+
+ - Part of Comodino
+ - Debian Developer part of the CDD stuff
+ - Here in Porto Alegre for the CDD stuff and infrastructure
+ - Maintains Python related packages like jabber glue code; maintains OCR
packages
- </ul>
-<li>Ale
-<ul>
-<li> - Part of Autistici/Inventati, maintaining a server for radical political groups and people
-<li> - Get a better design and infrastructure for the servers
-<li> - See how much cooperation (not only technical) between similar projects is
-<li> possible to attain
- </ul>
-
-<li>Phasa
-<ul>
-<li> - LDAP and server configuration hacker for Autistici/Inventati
-<li> - we should define a general schema(not ldap only) for address our different problem
-</ul>
-
-<li>Micah
-<ul>
-<li> - Benefit for riseup, servers for radical activists
-<li> - email, websites...
-<li> - Try to work together with other groups
-<li> - Share work with other groups to ease the load of all
-<li> - Started with the WTO protest in Seattle
-<li> - Worked with Indimedia for many years for setting up the global networking
- infrastructure (web, irc, mail)
-<li> - 1 and a half years in NM process in Debian
-<li> - Maintains a bittorrent replacement (bittornado) and a kernel patch
- for
- </ul>
-
-<li>Zufus
-<ul>
-<li> - Formerly very active in Rome, cooperating with Free Software Foundation
- Europe and Assoli, doing parliament lobbying and other stuff
-<li> - Now a PhD in applied physics in Pisa
-<li> - Got to know Debian-NP from Mako and Enrico since several months, and
- interested in getting in to work in the fertile Pisa NGO reality (Fair
- Trade, Computer recycling) and would like to take part in the development
-<li> - Debian Devel (pointless among other packages)
-<li> - Secret agenda: meet people, know people, know technical and cultural
- aspects, share knowledge, discover that there are guys from Pisa here
- Main: get involved in Debian NP development
- </ul>
+Goals for the Bagunça:
+
+ - Here in Porto Alegre for the CDD stuff and infrastructure
+
-<li>Guillaume
-<ul>
-<li> - Working for Praksys in France (org spreading Debian free software)
-<li> - Secret agenda: aim is not to stay as an association but to build a
- cooperative (limited liability company) with a more collaborative point of
- view (networking users, developers, institutions). They have some clients,
- not only setting up servers but also desktop machines (10 clients using only
- Debian Linux for their everyday work (OOo, Konqueror, mail, sql-ledger))
-<li> - Business is migrating from windows to Free Software platforms
-<li> - Partnership with computer brokers (dispatchers of used computers)
-<li> - Commercial targets: NP orgs, schools, cooperatives, companies
-<li> - Tech platform now is based on Woody because it started 1 year and a half ago
- and wanted to benefit from security patches for everything which is exposed
- to internet, and use backports for the rest
-<li> - Have central monitoring tools
-<li> - Need LDAP servers too
- </ul>
+ * Blaine Cook [blaine]
-Look for ASCII software which has been release on SourceForge dischosting.sf.net
+I am an everything person, and spend half my time coding, half my time
+doing system administration. Anything less, and I go crazy. I have been involved with the resist!ca collective
+for several years, providing alternative [[secure]] communications infrastructure
+for activists. I have recently started working with Radical Designs (dot org)
+on an open-source content management system that has been designed around and for
+activist mobilisations and activist and non-profit groups.
-<br>
-<a href="index.html">Index</a>
-</body>
-</html>
+ * Otavio Salvador [otavio]
+
+TODO
---------------------------- Who we where :: related groups
+--------------------------- Who we where :: related groups
+
+Groups connected to the Debian-NP people:
---------------------------- Who joined
+Enrico
+ - <a href="http://www.bfsf.it">Bologna Free Software Forum</a> <a href="http://www.bfsf.it/wiki/ThePresentation">(English description)</a>
+ - <a href="http://www.comodino.org">Comodino.org</a>
+ - <a href="http://www.acabnews.it">ACAB News</a>
+
+Guillaume
+ - <a href="http://www.praksys.org">praksys.org</a>
+
+Mako
+ - See at <a href="http://mako.yukidoke.org">http://mako.yukidoke.org</a>
+
+Vagrant
+ - <a href="http://freegeek.org">Freegeek</a>
+ - <a href="http://lessdisks.sourceforge.net">lessdisks</a>
+ - <a href="http://cvs.freegeek.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freekbox2/">Freekbox 2</a>
+ - <a href="http://www.freegeek.org/build.php">Build Program</a>
+
+Micah
+ - Red Cursor Collective <a href="http://riseup.net">riseup.net</a>
+ - <a href="http://www.indymedia.org">Independent Media Center</a> in Seattle
+
+Ale and Phasa
+ - <a href="http://www.inventati.org/">inventati.org</a></li>
+ - <a href="http://www.autistici.org/">autistici.org</a></li>
-- Otavio
-- Kalfa
--------------------------- Who else gravitated around