Hi, when sending my Bits of Debian Blends mail [1] I was explicitely hinting that Debian Lex needs more supporters. Looking at the list archive it contains the last real mail in May [2] all following mails are SPAM. This situation makes me very sad.
I have the impression that from time to time there is some kick of activity donw by single people and than they realise that there is not much response from others and they seem to give up / work on more burning tasks than Debian Lex (the list archive proves them correct that this project is not actually a burning task). >From my experience in the Debian Med project I learned that people who consider themselves not computer adictive (they call themselves "normal users" but I hate this term because it seems to exclude people like me from beeing "normal", yes, you might not believe but I also use my keyboard to type letters and I'm watching my screen with two eyes and I think this is perfectly normal) do not consider themselves as activists in such a project but just are sitting and waiting until a ready product pops up out of thin air. They fail to understand Free Software as a thing which is produced by a community and they beeing themselves a part of this but rather like a usual software product which just comes without any money. People really keep on wondering how this thing can come free of charge but fail to understand that they have to provide their very own work to make it really happen. So if people who subscribed this mailing list wondering why the Debian Lex project makes no real progress and are just sitting and waiting until something happens: This is the wrong strategy. If *you* want something to happen, it is *you* who should make it happen. The principle is frequently called "Do-o-cracy" - the doer decides what gets done. So if you don't do anything nothing will happen. Finally a would like to give a practical hint for the lex topic (which caused me to send this mail in the first place). Please have a look at https://www.recapthelaw.org/ It might fit somewhere on the Debian Lex tasks pages [3]. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/08/msg00006.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-lex/2009/05/threads.html [3] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/lex/tasks -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ändern! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
