On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:12:45 +0100 Laszlo KREKACS <laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Marcus Bauer > <marcus.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:36:21 +0200 > > "Risto H. Kurppa" <ri...@kurppa.fi> wrote: > > > >> The community shall be the judge and point me where did I go wrong. > > > > The community did already: Risto Kurppa, you have been sending me > > your massively abusive emails after the release of 0.9.3. They were > > so far beyond anything acceptable that I > > > > a) got a lawyer in Helsinki to deal with you and > > b) informed the Ubuntu Community Council. > > I think it was nothing else just a desperate try to build a > community around tangogps I probably repeat myself: open source / free software is build upon a meritocracy. The more you contribute, the more influence you do have. And actually in one way or other it is pretty much everywhere in life like this. If you haven't shown any regular support of a project or group than common sense should tell you that you wont be accepted as community manager. Freenode has exactly for that the policy that only people affiliated with a project can register project channels. And freenode is the core of many communities. > as apparently you failed to do it. Ah, allrighty! It is just that tangoGPS has a community of more than 100.000 users, of more than 25 distributions, of people packaging it, people twittering about it, people blogging about it, people discussing it in forums... The tangoGPS friendservice has been used almost half a million times and the messaging is frequently used too. There has been an article on Linux.com about tangoGPS and another one in the Linux Magazine. I'd say the tangoGPS community is bigger than the openmoko community :-P Now let's compare that to Risto Kurppa, who wrote in his mail two days ago: "In co-operation with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation I started a mailing list to discuss FOSS-GPS related topics to connect the users & developers:". This sounds good, no politician could say it any better. But if you look into the list archive you see that there are three positing in the last month: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss-gps/2009-December/date.html Not exactly a vibrant community that he has created in over a year. "In co-operation with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation..." BlaBla. Talk is cheap. It needs sustained work and commitment to get a community of the ground. > Risto was and are a very active mailing list member, had some > very useful comments here, what I think many users > appreciated. Which is no excuse for misbehaviour. > I do believe there was some small misunderstanding in > your email exchanges. Certainly not. The Ubuntu Community Council didn't take it lightly either. > As for the lawyer part, Im really sorry, you needed hire a lawyer > in a foreign country. I hope you didnt spent to much money on > it and also I hope you enjoyed the trip to Helsinki. > > However I usually dont hire any lawyers, if I receive some spams > in my inbox. But everyone are free to do in his/her way. That's exactly what I do too with spam. However Risto Kurppa didn't leave me any choice. He set a deadline until which I have to respond to him or elsewise he would go public with his diffamations. And yet I'd still drop this kind of email into the spam folder but next day he showed up on planet ubuntu and at this point the fun ends. That guy simply didn't stop and that's when I notified the Ubuntu Community Council and contacted a lawyer -- btw, they have phones in Helsinki nowadays, no need to go there. A word about the "usage of lawyers": they are a lot more useful (and cheaper) for getting legal advice than for sueing somebody. It is a good idea to go and get early advice with precise questions than to wait until a situation is out of control. By definition and statistics they have a success rate of 50:50 when they sue. -- How was that with throwing a coin? Marcus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community