Ian,
Ian Lynch wrote:
[snip]
Don't
confuse professionalism with rigid structures and procedures or
mechanisms of control. The most important aspect of management is
optimising resources and that means motivating people, particularly in
volunteer organisations.
The basic strategy you and others more or less associated with the
OpenDocument Fellowship have employed when you want to get your way and
find yourself (possibly) frustrated, is to complain that this project,
writ large or small, is inflexible, rigid, hierarchical, and basically
hostile to freedom.
Not so.
The point of this project is again, not to provide a forum for you to do
as you like. It is to coordinate the work of others and to ensure that
things do get done, impartially and for the good of all, not just for
one group. And that those things that get done represent what the
overall project deems worth getting done. Every member of this project
is entitled to voice his or her opinion and to present arguments. But
whining is so tired, and complaining with no facts and only empty
rhetoric is no longer acceptable. There are things to do, this thread is
tiresome, for you, I am sure, for me, I know, and for others as well. It
also has nothing to do with the subject line. :-(
Oh, btw, the point of the DLS: I don't think it the best venue for
expending our rather scarce monetary resources. If you go, and represent
OOo, then I'd trust you'd do just that. If you want to help organise
the San Diegans and anyone else who wishes to pay his or her way for
this, great. The point is spending virtually nonexistent money on a
conference that has problems. To twist this into a declamation against
volunteering is ridiculous. (Of course, the CC may decide that it's
actually a good idea to fund travel to the conference. Vote is still
underway.)
I would like to terminate this thread now. If you want to raise the
(tired) issue of OOo not being what *you* want, then go ahead, but I do
not think this is the list and certainly not the subject heading.
ciao,
Louis
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