On 24/09/10 10:28, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
[...] openSUSE is, like all Free Software communities, a meritocracy. You EARN the right to speak up (influence) by proving yourself valuable. If you don't contribute, who the f*** are you that we should listen? We're not a company - where managers get appointed to a position because they had the right papers and contacts and get paid well - here, those who actually KNOW what they are talking about are in charge. When we need input from others (like users) we ask for it (eg see the openSUSE users survey).
I find your statement quite ironical. You haven't contributed to SuSE or openSUSE in the past (at least not directly), now you are being *paid* to work on Linux (openSUSE) the whole day, and you have been *appointed* the community manager. You get the picture? I work in the industry and your statement that (project) managers in companies just get their jobs because they know the right people and there's a lot of money involved and otherwise they don't have a clue is absolutely appalling. I would really like to know what your fellow Novell project managers think about such an opinion.
-project is a development list. So those who speak here are contributors - or rather, should be. If you answer questions on the forums, write articles for news.o.o, are an artist for openSUSE, packager, developer - it doesn't matter WHAT you do, you're part of those who make decisions. Nothing, however, is not enough. And opinions we have plenty, so no, giving those is not a contribution, sorry.
I agree with David on this one. You devalue thousands of contributions! There are a lot of people out there who don't have the luxury to be paid to work on Linux like you are. There are people out there who have not much time to contribute in form of RPM packaging etc, but they have great experience with Linux or software development or project management in general. Providing ideas and opinions *is* a contribution to openSUSE! Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org