Re: Election process (Was: An update from the board)
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 06:33 +0100, Mark Stopka wrote:
Serving on the openSUSE Board is a privilege in a way, but first and foremost a service, and generally not very thankful at that. If there are perks of the job (or for former members) I have yet to see them. ;-)
Yes it does, it does matter when, where and how you say things, we call it context and there is an entire department at your company called the PR department that thinks about what to say,when to say it, where to say it, and how to say it.
Let's keep our employers out of the conversation here, please. We all contribute to openSUSE as individuals, exclusively or to a good extent in our spare time.
I could as well use *any sufficiently large company that does a lot of communications with the ouside*, but you can see 13 words against 1 more relatable example, you can replace that with any organization of a reasonable size really... The point was communication is a tricky business, and it does influence views of projects / people / organizations in the eyes of both the internal and external stakeholders.
I admit, that *certain company* established internal comms department between *certain company* Business Services - Global Infrastructure Services and rest of the company after I have during *program name* transition & transformation have communicated some changes in the structure of company data storage infrastructure to the rest of the company that were considered too bold without the proper softeners, for some.
Example: I would communicate to Local IT and the L-team of a specific local subsidiary that as part of the transformation we would be migrating their IT assets to a different location, as part of a streamlining effort (we were going from 90+ DCs to about 50), but I have omitted those in my eyes at the time unimportant details like "there will likely be no changes to the structure of human resources associated with this on-going and important effort that strengthens our company leading position in our industry".
I hope that does provide some clarity on what I meant by that.
First Richard, then Henne, now Gerald - just how many current and ex-board member will you ignore when they teach you how the Project actually works? If Richard was paranoid why do you keep trying to make openSUSE a business? This make no sense. We are a free software community by volunteer. Please stop trying to make openSUSE to something it isn't
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:26 AM Conrad Smith <conradsmithe@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 06:33 +0100, Mark Stopka wrote:
Serving on the openSUSE Board is a privilege in a way, but first and foremost a service, and generally not very thankful at that. If there are perks of the job (or for former members) I have yet to see them. ;-)
Yes it does, it does matter when, where and how you say things, we call it context and there is an entire department at your company called the PR department that thinks about what to say,when to say it, where to say it, and how to say it.
Let's keep our employers out of the conversation here, please. We all contribute to openSUSE as individuals, exclusively or to a good extent in our spare time.
I could as well use *any sufficiently large company that does a lot of communications with the ouside*, but you can see 13 words against 1 more relatable example, you can replace that with any organization of a reasonable size really... The point was communication is a tricky business, and it does influence views of projects / people / organizations in the eyes of both the internal and external stakeholders.
I admit, that *certain company* established internal comms department between *certain company* Business Services - Global Infrastructure Services and rest of the company after I have during *program name* transition & transformation have communicated some changes in the structure of company data storage infrastructure to the rest of the company that were considered too bold without the proper softeners, for some.
Example: I would communicate to Local IT and the L-team of a specific local subsidiary that as part of the transformation we would be migrating their IT assets to a different location, as part of a streamlining effort (we were going from 90+ DCs to about 50), but I have omitted those in my eyes at the time unimportant details like "there will likely be no changes to the structure of human resources associated with this on-going and important effort that strengthens our company leading position in our industry".
I hope that does provide some clarity on what I meant by that.
First Richard, then Henne, now Gerald - just how many current and ex-board member will you ignore when they teach you how the Project actually works?
If Richard was paranoid why do you keep trying to make openSUSE a business? This make no sense. We are a free software community by volunteer.
Please stop trying to make openSUSE to something it isn't
You are 100% right.
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