Re: Microflyer

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 17:27, Joost van Baal-Ilić
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 02:14:21PM +0100, James Addison wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 May 2023 at 21:10, James Addison <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 28 May 2023 at 08:24, Joost van Baal-Ilić
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Your PR has been merged, I've just built assembly.pdf locally, that works
> > > > flawlessly.  So thanks for this nice work!
> <snip>
> > > > What could furthermore get changed is: "by a large community of
> > > > volunteers" in "by a community of over 1,000 volunteers": that will
> > > > likely stay true for at least 10 years.
> > >
> > > Yep, that seems fair.  Initially I felt that leaving the scale of the
> > > community unquantified could lead people to be curious and find out
> > > more for themselves.  I've included it below, and will think about it
> > > more.
> > >
> > > ---- BEGIN FLYER ----
> > > Debian is a free operating system for computers of all kinds.  It
> > > offers 63,000+ packaged utilities and applications, including software
> > > for businesses, programmers, scientists, educators and artists.
> > >
> > > Continuous improvements and timely security updates are provided by a
> > > community of over 1,000 volunteers who have subject area interest and
> > > expertise in the software they maintain.  All of the software source
> > > code shipped by the Debian community is available for you to read,
> > > edit and redistribute.
> > >
> > > To learn more about Debian and to obtain a copy that you can run and
> > > optionally install, scan the QR code above, or visit
> > > https://www.debian.org for more information.
> > > ---- END FLYER ----
> >
> > I've kindly been provided with commit access to the debian-flyers.git
> > repository - I don't think I'm quite ready to apply my own edits
> > without review, though, so I'm going to remove myself from that access
> > level.  If given the ability to modify the flyer within Debian without
> > collaborating, I think there's a risk I'd become less collaborative
> > (and also that fewer other people would understand the content).  I
> > haven't used the access to make any changes, and -- even though it
> > could take significantly longer, time-wise -- I think I'll wait until
> > I feel ready to become a Debian maintainer/developer, or will wait to
> > have individual patches/changesets reviewed.
>
> OK, fair enough.  You don't have any pending changes now, do you?
>
> Give me a call once you feel ready to apply @ nm.debian.org ; I might
> be able to write some blurb about your contributions.

Thanks, Joost - I'll do that, or at least will try to remember to, and
would be grateful for the writeup.

No further changes planned at the moment; I had a vague idea about
trying to restore the 'universal operating system' tagline, although
had difficulty aligning it satisfyingly below the Debian logo text,
and so have paused working on that.