[Yast4debian-devel] Personal status report

[Mario Fux]

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2005 11.29 schrieb Ramon Acedo:
> Hi all/Hallo zusammen,

Morning/Guten Morgen

Sorry for the delay but ATM I learn quite a lot and today we had a Linux 
Information Party at the local LUG (not the successful but nice)

> just suggest a weekday or Weekend you can.

This belongs to the IRC meeting, right ;-)?

> I know that Pikota is working in the last versions of YaST2
> with Ubuntu and he's trying to get some fund from his firm
> through the public administration to be able to work in it
> as much time as he can. It won't be easy though.

Interesting. Great. Be a bit more verbose, Pikota ;-). No ;-).

> What if we'd propose a little paper argumenting why porting
> YaST2 to debian based distros (in Spain there are some local
> distros paid by public administrations).

And the city of Munich and the city of Vienna are using Debian derivates too. 
The ideas sounds interesting.

> I know that I am a dreamer but imagine a work group working

I'm a dreamer too but the world needs dreamers who bring the things to 
reality.

> in it and making it to work in some local distros (from Spain,
> Switzerland, Germany, USA...), most of these local distros are
> Debian derivarives, and co-funded by the administrations.
>
> Would Novell/SuSE help in convincing them? I am an evangelist
> here in Catalonia and I can reach some people at the top of the
> Catalonian administration in the Information Society Departament.

I'm not the optimist for the Swiss administration but hey, there are other 
groups of interested people who we could talk to.

> I'd be able to hire developers through my firm
> (http://cargol.net/?lang=en) (Jaldhar, Pikota, Mario and other
> super-skilled-techies/evangelists :-) but counting with the support of
> Novell/SuSE would give us more credit and possibilities.

Stano, Klaus: Do you think there is some chance that we could convince some 
people inside Novell/SuSE who are able to speak some money? Just a small or 
even tiny chance is enough?

And there is Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu/Canonical too. We just need someone 
who develops a GTK frontend for YaST2.

Stano, Klaus again: Could you give some raw time estimations for the 
development of another (GTK) frontend for YaST2?

> What do you think guys?

see above ;-)

> BTW still interested :-)

Great.

> Ramon

griits
Mario