I'll put my famous powers of observation to work:
1. The initial problem was that marketing.openoffice.org wasn't doing
what people wanted it to.
a) Part of this problem was that there was not agreement on what
it is for (we should start a wiki page to /develop/ the organization
of our communication methods)
b) Another part of this problem was (I think) that m.OO.o was not
as accessible for some users.
2. A proposed solution to (b) was implemented with the wiki.
Apparently this was only three weeks ago? Wow. Good work since then!
3. With time, (a) was also to be sorted out, theoretically on the
wiki. However, either because of confusion as to how to use it, simply
because it's still too soon, it hasn't been done.
4. Steven is frustrated that the introduction of a wiki has only
partially helped organization, but still hasn't solved problem 1 (at
least yet).
5. He is proposing a new website to (in effect) compete against
m.OO.o. In market theory, what this does is put pressure on m.OO.o's
administrators to react. This pressure is intended to speed up the
process.
6. One extraneous variable that was mentioned was that m.OO.o is on a
secure site, so security takes priority over permission to change the
website.
Again, I've only been here two days. I agree with Jeff's lets work
*with* the wiki, rather than *against* m.OO.o.
However, if Steven wants to create a new website, I'm all for it. If
it's worse than m.OO.o, we ignore it, and Steven has an outlet for his
creative frustrations. If it's better, than it will act as a model
that m.OO.o will move towards. Steven keeps saying that he can build a
better website; I don't see why we should stop him from trying! At the
least, it will let us visualize what he's been proposing all this
time!
- RG>
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