On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:11:56 -0800, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >OOo is moves at glacial speed. Any new idea is shot upon sight. I > >spend great effort trying to contribute, but my efforts are for > >naught. Even the simplest change has to be fought tooth and nail over > >the course of several months. Frustration is evident everywhere, I see > >it every day, it gets discussed all the time. As someone recently > >said, fork is in the air. > > Think of it in these terms. Some ideas are better then others.
Whoa Louis. Calm down. Include people instead of insulting them. Nobody here wants to push Daniel away from the project with all that he starts. We lost a good resource in Sam Hiser last time I saw you snubbing like this. Remember we are all on the same side. Some ideas are better then others, eh? I completely agree. I am in particular very fond of OOoAuthors.org. I also like the new business card initiative he is throwing together. Daniel is a great source of not only good ideas, but also of the initiative needed to start projects without your personal guidance. OOoAuthors is probably the first majorly successful thing outside of the NLC I have seen come from anyone in the project in a very long time. You really want to know why I am starting the NL-EN project now? Because of the high level of frustration I've seen and heard in trying to do anything novel or grassroots on the MP and other lists. An NL-EN would allow me to immediately create something like http://en.openoffice.org/authors for Daniel if he proposed that project, or http://en.openoffice.org/businesscards or anything else of the kind. The idea is that once a small project is started, people can offer constructive criticism, all they can do before that is kill it in endless debate. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the experience I hear about from multiple people is that innovation is only welcome if suggested by a project lead, so I decided to go back to my proposal for a NL-EN that was so well received when I originally sent it to encourage more low level innovation our efforts up front, so that constructive criticism could replace ineffective stultifying debate. -- _________________________ Ryan Singer Editor In Chief, The Sentinel http://foothillsentinel.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
