On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Alberto Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/6/21 Jason D. Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And there's a discussion about it already, there's even a BoF at GUADEC > around the topic. > PGO is the wrong place for that discussion and as I said in the first sentence of my email, this thread is for everyone; not just those that can afford to go to GUADEC or who blog to PGO. > 3. Marketing to developers must get ramped up; we agree that we need a new >> generation of awesome developers to bring new ideas and blood in to our >> process. A number of our Gnome modules are in "barely maintained" mode. With >> new blood, we can reinvigorate 2.x while looking to the future. And I've >> volunteer for this one in the form of 15 minute screen casts. However, it >> needs web hosting space. And that needs Gnome resources. What do we have to >> do to make this hosting happen? What else can we do to get more developers? > > > Is there anything preventing you to put the videos at your GNOME's home > directory and serve it through http? I can't see why those screencasts > should wait before the hipotetically needed bandwidth is there. > This is a marketting effort. Nothing hurts something like that more than a false-start. We need to make sure the bandwidth is there first. Actually, you can just put those videos at youtube and provide a secondary > ogg link, that will solve the bandwidth problem and it wil provide an > "usable" way to watch the video for most people, and a freedom-compilant > version of the video. > YouTube doesn't provide sufficient quality for a screen cast. A screen cast where you can't read the text defeats the purpose. > As a side note, if you want to drive leadership I will strongly encourage > you to avoid any sentence that starts with "I hate", if you have something > against some developers' decisions on the tools they want to use, just give > your rationale behind your opinion and recognize the benefits of what they > use as well. Don't assume people is just wrong since that will inevitably > drive the discussion into a passionate argue instead of a constructive > conversation. Remember, encouraging people to move forward is way more > important than making your personal points clear. You also appear to have misread my email. I'm *advocating* the inclusion of Mono with 100% approval so that we can MEND the rift in our community.
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