Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (140 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 05:48:01 PM Gregory Zysk wrote:
> On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on
> > openSUSE Magazine.  We all have been interested but the idea got lost
> > somewhere since none of us had enough time.
> >
> > One of the results of GCI was design for the magazine. While printing
> > of the magazine maybe very expensive. I think we can create this
> > magazine for inviting new sponsors to the project and also for the
> > upcoming openSUSE Conference.  So printing a few 100 copies and
> > sending it across should not matter but thats upto Jos to decide.
> >
> > Please have a look at the design, I will soon set up it in the artwork
> > repo for openSUSE and if somebody can do that for me, it will be great
> > as I have bandwidth and speed limitations as of now. Patches are
> > always welcome :)
> > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7174228
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> I am sorry, but I have to interject on this. Manu, I have seen you do
> this times before and it is really bad taste. This is not your
> initiative, but N.B. Prashanth's and Stella's idea, which was initiated
> at the Marketing Hackfest in Nuremberg after the oSC. I know because I
> was in the original list of correspondence for this initiative and also
> have been tracking it since I believe Prashanth's idea was a very good
> and unique.
>
> If there is anything that needs to be changed in this project more than
> anything it is the killing of initiatives by certain members of this
> community, only to use it later to their own benefit. So, Manu you have
> absolutely no right to take credit for this as it is not your idea.
>
> I would request that this matter be looked into by the election
> committee and all others to verify that the candidates are campaigning
> on their own merits rather than trying to steal ideas to make themselves
> look better.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gregory
I am sorry, but I have to interject on this. I doubt he was stealing an idea 
considering openSUSE trademarks are property of SUSE and the community. 
Resuscitating an idea doesn't seem to be hijacking when there is no profit and 
only the community would benefit or take a liability. Chances are I'm missing 
something here, but getting pissy over whos idea something is seems rather 
silly in an open source project.
-- 
Roger Luedecke
openSUSE Ambassador
Ind. Repairs and Consulting
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