Re: community managers

2012-11-15 Thread Fabiana Simões
I'm not really sure about the effectiveness of this approach. I think addressing these external problems in such a micro level - as in, answering comments and pieces of news - is very likely to create more noise and, possibly, more misunderstanding about the project. What I think might be a

Re: GNOME weekly roundup (was Re: community managers)

2012-11-15 Thread Emily Gonyer
Sri, essentially you're talking about setting up a dedicated GNOME channel on IRC for this sort of stuff, is that right? One anyone could subscribe to and get updates when they are posted. If we do so (and I'm not opposed to) we need to ensure we have fresh content, else it'll become yet another

Re: GNOME weekly roundup (was Re: community managers)

2012-11-15 Thread Lucas Rocha
Maybe it would be simpler to just do a Google+ Hangout? --lucasr On 15 November 2012 06:34, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, November 14, 2012 7:58 am, alex diavatis wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at

Re: community managers

2012-11-15 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Dave, On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: I think that as a project, we have had trouble communicating our vision, because as a project we are not sure what it is. There is a part of the project that has a very clear idea of their vision, but that vision

Re: community managers

2012-11-15 Thread Emily Gonyer
I think Dave's point was that we missed an opportunity to keep Cinnamon as GNOME 3 - because at one point it was GNOME 3.x with extensions piled on. They have since forked and are truly a separate project now, but that wasn't always the case. If we had made it clear that they their users were

Re: community managers

2012-11-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: I think Dave's point was that we missed an opportunity to keep Cinnamon as GNOME 3 - because at one point it was GNOME 3.x with extensions piled on. They have since forked and are truly a separate Well, the thing is