To me, the title of this thread seems very strange, as if engineering and community is mutually exclusive. If this is primarily a developer platform, why are there so many intense opinions about such superficial things as color and marketing anyways? Personally, I was expecting that once the platform is absolutely solid, flexible, etc, then would be the time to release various versions forms of the hardware to suit particular marketing niches. That will come in due time. If people want to get involved outside of "hard" engineering why not dig into gui look-and-feel? If that's still too technical, then maybe there's just not the room someone's looking for in this particular project.. Really that's ok and to sometimes be expected. I mean marketing is really just "how to sell" and that's entirely up to the company taking the financial risk for this particular product, imho. Matt ________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williams Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:54 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness) I have to say my unvoiced thoughts were the same as Ryan's. I was not at all clear why a call for the community to help figure marketing stuff out would be met by a request to take the discussion off list as though it was somehow inappropriate for public discussion. It seemed like a very strange response. Now reading the responses to Ryan's comments seem even more strange. I feel like I am missing something because the responses to Ryan's comments seem on the surface, inappropriate as well. Hank On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Ryan Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never said anything about a conspiracy - I just thought I'd point out that > it strikes me as strange to respond to somebody's call to open up a process > and involve the community by asking that person to make their communications > private! So according to you, it should not be possible to talk with people outside the mailing list? I did not say anything quite so bold, and you've completely missed my meaning. Please go back and read the thread again - my comment is purely a reaction the circumstances under which the request for secrecy arrived. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- blog: whydoeseverythingsuck.com
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