jdd wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
Most notably, the staff dedicated to openSUSE at Novell is too small in numbers. This has some implications, as we cannot tell Novell what to do with its money (no jdd, we can't):
did I ever say so?
Yep.
I'm sick of having unanswered questions,
set up a subject on IRC meeting tomorrow
The IRC meetings are very ineffective as far as communication is concerned. It's a one-way channel as long as it works by voicing, but there's probably no other option (so no pun intended). Haven't been there the last weeks though (Tuesday being the only day where I'm always away from home in the evening), maybe the modus operandi has changed.
We have to get our act together, drive topics and initiatives on this very list ourselves, then come up with agreed upon, realistic proposals or requests to Novell, if needed.
our problem is number, we are a very small number here
Which brings us back to the "linking community parts" topic. We are a large number as a whole... we're just no "whole" as of now, but isolated, smaller communities. The french-speaking community being a particular problem that deserves a thread of its own (and a large market to win for Novell ;)).
do you subscribe to opensuse-wiki? http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-wiki/2006-May/
I'm already on opensuse, opensuse-build, opensuse-factory, opensuse-fr, opensuse-opt and opensuse-packager, every single evening/night on #suse, #opensuse and #opensuse-fr + I read http://planetsuse.org every day. I think that given the above, if there is important/interesting information I'm not aware of, we have a communication problem (and yes, I read almost every mail on those lists ;)). I think this list is the "main" one, where everyone who's on other opensuse-* lists should be subscribed to. Maybe we could have volunteers who'd compile a weekly report of what's happening on the other lists, and send them on this one ? Just an idea... Blogging about it would be even more effective IMO. Anyone who blogs SUSE-related stuff sporadically and who isn't aggregated on http://planetsuse.org ? If so, please contact James Ogley (link is on planetsuse.org) to have him add your feed. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> __v FOSDEM 2006 -- 25+26 February 2006 in Brussels