On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:11:40PM -0500, harryc wrote: <snip some ass-licking. :-) >
To the list, you're correct in assuming that many forums want to remain autonomous, but that doesn't mean that we can't communicate more effectively as a community. It's hard to let go of so many hard years work. It literally takes two to three years to build up a successful forum, and that is assuming that you have competent Mods and Admins from day one (which we do). Don't let this discourage you from reaching out, and the reverse applies.
The way I read it, he was talking about some individuals who posted what he said, not the whole comunity. We indeed need to talk and we ALL have to find out what the best way is to do this. You state yourself that building a forum and perhaps even the comunity, takes time. During this time we must work things out how things are done best. The openSUSE comunity has reached out his hands for the first time and at this moment. We have to see where it goes from here. We hope that everybody who uses SUSE can contribute in one way or another to SUSE. openSUSE is the platform for this. So how can we achive this without loosing the goodwill that is already out there? For me it is strange that then people, who might have at least indirect interest in the wellbeing of SUSE as a distribution, say they do not care. About this autonomity: nobody wants to take that away. It was just obe of the ideas that came upas a possibilaty. If there are other possibilaties, please, please, please let us know. houghi -- Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop