2008/7/29 Marek Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday, 29. July 2008 20:17:00 Chris Wright wrote: >> But you do have a design team, according to Rasterman. > > Of course we have. How do you think we are trying to get to a device that is > ready for end user ? And this is just the beginning. We will work with more > designers for the UI, the housing, etc to continue the direction towards the > mass market. > But that does not mean all that is perfect right from the beginning or that we > don't listen to constructive criticism. Please help us making it better by > _demonstrating_ a superior solution not by sending more emails.
Where I work, the design team is the same as the development team. >> Out of curiosity, how many of these developers use an Openmoko phone >> as their primary phone? > > What do you mean with "these" developers ? Everybody certainly has a different > opinion than others on something. Then it's vacuous to say so. >> Do these differences of opinion tend to fall on the same boundaries? > > I don't get what you trying to say here. Something as simple as a keyboard button -- well, users were complaining about its lack very quickly. If the design team were also users, then they would have insisted that the error be fixed. >> Still, nobody has mentioned why the design team can't be contacted or >> identified. > > Sorry but this is just not true. I don't get why you follow this childish > witch-hunt game. Because you were responding to this quote: > This also seemed to reveal something about the internals of > Openmoko that weren't expected: development decisions are not entirely > made by the developers, but instead they answer to some people who the > community cannot readily identify and who the community doesn't know how > to interact with or if they even can interact with these decision-makers. And your response was in no way related. I was merely pointing that out. >> Strange, I read this as "Openmoko has not been, but should in the >> future, trust those members...." >> >> I haven't been here long enough to determine which is the case. Maybe >> the company hasn't, either. > > Meant was: Openmoko pays much more attention to installable solutions and > listens to hackers that provide those instead to people that complain all day > long but don't get their hands dirty. Okay. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
