I don't think a list of names would be suitable, or even possible due to legal
constraints. What would have been beneficial would have been some form of announcement
possibly via the Board saying that there are job cuts and these will affect some of the
Novell staff with a direct involvement in the prpject. Obviously once the affected staff
have been advised. This is the first (and hopefully last) occurance of this and as such
mistakes are inevitable.
We need to take a leaf out of other big projects and be more engaging with the
press/media. This will not be easy, but can and will happen.
I am not defending Novell's mistakes, but I am defending openSUSE; and as Novell are
part of the community they get some defence. They are like a child going through toilet
training, there are accidents but with percerverence they manage to do it on their own.
The crucial part is it takes leadership by example - do as we do not as we say.
Regards,
Andy
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From: Martin Schlander
Sent: 24/02/2009 00:00:26
Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Open Support
Mandag 23 februar 2009 20:32:11 skrev Gerald Pfeifer:
I am sure you understand that with the exception of
the CEO and similarily
ranked officers no company will provide lists or other details of people
leaving, be it voluntary or otherwise. Not the least since this would run
afoul of data protection regulations.
I don't understand how anybody can claim to want to build a community, and
then be completely silent, when major events affecting the community greatly
like these firings occur.
I don't remember seing any official communication about this whatsoever,
except some executive level bullshit in the press - but nothing at all
addressing the concerns of the openSUSE community.
A list of names would probably also be against the interests of the directly
affected peopIe, but I'm pretty sure it would have been possible for someone
to release some information to the openSUSE community explaining what goes on,
why, how it affects (different parts of) openSUSE short and long term etc.,
without Novell getting in too much legal trouble because of it.
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