[SlugBug] Fwd: debian project interview

[Bill Best]

Any 'acti-geeks' want to send questions to Martin Michlmayr of Debian???

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Subject: [Imc-uk-features] debian project interview
From:    "yossarian" <yossarian1936[at]speedymail[dot]org>
Date:    Wed, May 19, 2004 12:53 pm
To:      imc-uk-features[at]lists[dot]indymedia[dot]org
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Hi there,

Some of us in Cambridge are trying to set up a speaking engagement for
Richard Stallman here on Friday at lunchtime, before he makes it back to
London for his 6 pm engagement there.  In the course of trying to set up
this gig, I contacted Martin Michlmayr, who lives in Cambridge and is 
the current Debian Project Leader, that is, the public face of the 
Debian GNU/Linux operating system.  He said that he already knew some 
people involved in Indymedia, and that he would be happy to do an 
interview sometime.

So.  I am thinking that it could be quite interesting to solicit
questions from this list (please forward this email to any acti-geeks 
that you know are not on this list). Indymedia and Debian are two
projects that share a number of characteristics:

a)  both use and produce Free Software and other kinds of content,
although there is a very different emphasis - we produce much more 
content than software, they are the other way around.
b)  they are both non-corporate forms of organization with democratic
structures in place for decision-making by non-paid volunteers
c)  they are both worldwide projects networked together by a large 
number of mailing lists, irc, project groups, etc.
d)  Debian and Indymedia both have strong positions against the proposed
EU Patent law
e)  Both projects are fundamentally attempts to ensure the free flow of
information as a cornerstone of a free and democratic global society.

There are likely many other similarities, and there are also many
differences.  Anyway, if you have any questions you'd like to have 
asked, please email me off-list and I'll start keeping track.

Y

PS to those who don't know what Debian is:  you can read a bit more 
about it at http://www.debian.org;  it's an ideologically righteous 
GNU/Linux computer operating system.