Mark Harrison (Groups) wrote:
In fact, I'd go
further - I got the impression that DISCUSSION wasn't particularly
wanted, and the purpose of this forum was more to communicate to us what
the "central team" (which seems to be some mix of Sun marketing staff
and the community council) are doing,
I've heard a lot of people express this or similar concerns (btw, the
council is not composed of Sun marketing staff, it's a mixture of Sun
employees, CollabNet employees, and a few independents). I think that at
least in principle, most people would agree that on-topic discussion is
allowed, but strongly disagree on what "on-topic" means. For example, is
Microsoft Office on-topic on the basis that it's our main competitor? Is
the OpenDocument format on-topic on the basis that it's an important
feature? I've seen a couple of people answer "no" to these questions. I
guess that a few people might even feel that the only thin on-topic is
what's on the Marketing To-Do list, which would be roughly equivalent to
saying that discussion is not wanted. To make things more complicated,
different people think that different things are important. Some tend to
focus on small, short-term tasks (e.g. making posters) others want to
have a long-term strategy (e.g. raising funds so you have resources to
do marketing with). Someone focused on short-term tasks might be tempted
to see discussions of long-term strategy as "off-topic".
Where do I lie in this spectrum? I tend to focus on long-term strategy
(raising funds, the OpenDocument format, etc).
Cheers,
Daniel.
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