Quoting "Charles-H. Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello Daniel,
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
I rather think that if one wishes to work within the boundaries of the MP (or any) project one must ensure that one's efforts are in agreement with the project's goals. Asking the MP leads is not such a bureaucratic step, I think. What we all do not want is losing the message (or confusing it) or duplication of effort.
It depends on what you mean by "asking". If every step requires approval, and approval is almost impossible to obtain because you get wrapped up in endless discussion, then I think that's very bad. On the other hand, if you mean asking if anyone is currently working on a project like that, then absolutely.
I diagree with you on this point, Daniel. A FOSS project is a project releasing software whose source code and generally binaries are freely distributable, modifiable, reusable by anybody. Outside of that point, there is nothing telling us about being freewheeling and anarchistic. We're not a democracy and AFAIK we have rules, processes, leads, to-do lists, taks, etc....
And you also has the right to fork if you don't agree with this process. This is
exactly how many important projects like Gentoo got started. Debian had too much
politics.
So, once again, we go back to balance. There has to be flexibility for people to take their own initiative, not require permission for everything. On the other hand, there has to be communication, and we should avoid duplicating an existing initiative.
That's where I feel uncomfortable with the intent of this site. To me I thought it was a propagation site. But the more we go, the more I see that it tries to duplicate the entire OpenOffice.org site, with native-lang projects, with users'lists, with documentation, etc... I really don't see the point here.
I do see one point, and this is that we will 'own' the server in the extend that
we can mount the application we decide and the extensibility we want as opposed
to the very restrictive static only content we usually generate. We can't
really extend the modularity of the website such as exchange content within
projects and many important content get burried under the inmense mass of
mailing list trafic.
Also navegability would be greatly improved since the content will be lesser to
be managed and will bring less confusion to the end user, and will make the
access to content easier. That is not just to mention that might sprung even.
... if this is to be done as part of the MP project.
No. The MP project has the competence and authority on anything pertaining to OOo marketing (unless stated otherwise).
Best,
Charles.
Cheers, Daniel.
-- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/
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