2010/9/27 Karsten König
Am Montag, 27. September 2010, 12:30:04 schrieb Henne Vogelsang:
Hi,
On 9/26/10 11:09 AM, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
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.
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 don't. He has contributed since he got hired right? That's the only thing that counts. Who cares if he get's payed, by whom, as long as he contributes right?
Henne
You can't understand people get a sour taste here? We are trying to get people to contribute for 'free' to opensuse and overnight somebody gets hired who didn't have big ties before and becomes a key person in opensuse community.
I get that. I was surprised myself by how much people expected just because Novell put the 'community manager' stamp on me. I mean, I'm just another guy, I frankly expected to have to earn my spot here a bit more... I guess either some of Zonker's reputation shined on me (?) or the fact that a lot of peeps already knew me from KDE helped a lot. And of course the title often does make a difference in itself - either because Novell employees tend to take it serious, or because I have some resources I can use (eg budget for marketing and such). And to the outside world it also helps quite a bit - something I'd gladly abuse for openSUSE's sake. But not inside the community - like anyone else, I'd like to be judged on my actions, not some position within an (admittedly big) commercial contributor to openSUSE. Anyway. All of that doesn't change what I wrote - it only points out that this ain't a perfect meritocracy - but hey, what is? I do believe we should strive for judging people by what they do and not by their position, employer or anything else, however.
Cheers, Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org