On 05/04/2009 23:21, Steve Mosher wrote: > The voting approach will be discussed. Basically I dont believe in > letting idiots vote. You dont want me voting on your layout and > convincing everyone with my superb rhetoric that your 8 layer design > can be accomplished in 2 layers.. you get my drift. The community will > have to have SME ( subject matter experts) They will have to have some > undemocratic powers. my view at least. > Hello Steve
Yes, I think you took the point. I think, if there will be an open development, I would be better if there will be a "meritocracy" vote. Example: if there is to discuss about "use glamo chip" or not, I think is not a good idea to have all the community speaking about the xglamo, where 95% of the person speaking neither know the low level implication to use a chip in place of another (and it is normal, because not all people have this kind of knoledge). I am one of these idiots. What according me missed in openmoko was a community. Or better: there are a lot of person in OpenMoko community. What we missed was a lead. What we missed was an official voice from Openmoko. Often I took you email as official announcement of OM, as official face. But you are not a "community manager" but only a "maketing manager". A community can't be democratic. Big projects as Linux, Ubuntu, Gnome, etc. have a community that is formed by person that don't stay all in the same level: there are leaders / there are developers / there are maintainers. And between them there is a knowledge and respect because they worked to get their position. This bring people to be serious and to work collaborative. Without this there are only people telling only: "The GSM module suck / The Wifi module suck / All OM suck". Only with this a collaborative project can born, and to have success. In this case FIC have only to put the money when the project will be ready. And remember that a open project may not be democratic. Usually the best one are never democratic. Someone here a long time wrote here: Ubuntu community was not an casual thing. It was by design. I would like to add: OpenMoko need something like this. These are my 2 cents. Michele Renda _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
