On Friday 06 August 2010 19:31:31 Egbert Eich wrote:
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
First of all, interesting, bloody interesting read. And I understand the labs ppl very well - will discuss this with them in 2 weeks when I hope to be at their offices...
Labs people are not colocated - that's why they have this conference. In case you mean the office in Prague, yes, there are a number of labs people there - but not all of them. Most of the labs is spread all over the world.
Ok, that is of course obvious, should've known. But talking to some already helps ;-)
I have this myself - I don't know where I stand being both a Novell employee and a community member. Something I want to discuss with ppl in person a bit anyway so I'll take it up with them too.
Finally people speak up - and I'm sure others will go again: "oh, no, this should have been an internal discussion".
Well surely some details should be discussed internally. But the fact we struggle with this, and much of that discussion, can go on a more public platform. Then again, it should't be advertised like a major issue either so I would rather not have ppl blog about it.
The strategy part I can, I think, explain to them. I've been trying to get more strategic thinking within the KDE community for ages, it's finally working a bit (more due to aseigo than me, btw) and I have strong opinions on the matter. And I'm of course right ;-) (gosh I sometimes wish I was arrogant enough to actually say (and mean) that without a smiley)
As much as I know aseigo he's actually able to drive a strategy - thru his own contributions :) This is exactly in line with what I wrote earlier.
Yes and no. You might not have read all my posts in this area but they are summed up quite reasonably in this blog entry: http://nowwhatthe.blogspot.com/2010/08/kde-strategy-for-opensuse.html <snip stuff we agree on>
Cheers, Egbert.
Have a nice day, Jos