[Yast4debian-devel] Personal status report

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Sobota 24 September 2005 22:37 Mario Fux napísal:
> 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?

I can't comment.

>
> 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?

The estimation would be 3 months (that's the answer I've got last time from 
our UI frontend specialist).

Stano

>
> > What do you think guys?
>
> see above ;-)
>
> > BTW still interested :-)
>
> Great.
>
> > Ramon
>
> griits
> Mario
>
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