On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:11 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 5/19/2009 at 14:02, Uwe Buckesfeld
wrote: BTW, it says "Do you want to support the Guiding Principles?", which is a bit more than just agreeing, IMHO. It's not like just realizing what the project Which part of the Guiding principles is so bad that it can't be accepted (granted, for most people most things should just be considered as 'normal'). I might have forgotten the worst thing I signed there. But when I read all this back in times I did not feel like I'd have to change my entire live or style in order to comply to hose Guiding Principles.
On the other hand, for this discussion, just pointing out the real paragraphs that caused you to shiver might be of interest to all of us. We might have overlooked it, it might be mis-worded and as such could be re-phrased.
Dominique
Personally, I think this is an interesting discussion, not for its content but for how it has gone down a rather negative path. I think Stephen Binner points out aptly that most likely, people are not signing the guiding principles because the path to it is not so obvious. I think it is impossible to discuss reasons why people might *choose* to sign or not sign without first answering that very point that Stephen brings up. Taking advantage of a thread to immediately espouse one's negative reasonings why a large body of people may or may not have signed it cannot be addressed without first proving or disproving whether they were able to notice the Guiding Principles easily in the first place. While a topic like this is clearly within the purview of the responsibilities of the Board and something that we should address as a regular course of business, it would be entirely irresponsible for us to re-address the content of the Guiding Principles without first verifying accessibility to the Guiding Principles, since we have not heard widespread complaint from the 2000+ people out there who didn't sign it in the first place. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org