On Mar 7, 2010, at 12:56 PM, David E Jones wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > >> >> On Mar 7, 2010, at 8:08 PM, David E Jones wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Tim Ruppert wrote: >>> >>>> It IS news when there is a new tutorial out there. It is not news when >>>> you are doing marketing. That sounds like a reasonable place to draw the >>>> line. For instance, I don't put my blog messages up there when they're >>>> not going to directly help users - just like Wikipedia, only the facts. >>>> We haven't put up one message about any of our twitter feeds, social >>>> networking angles, new websites, all promotion stuff. What Hans put in >>>> there is straight up promotion. >>> >>> What does that have to do with news? This is the most strange definition of >>> news that I've ever heard... >>> >>> Maybe this would be helpful: >>> >>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/news >>> >>> -David >>> >> >> That's true but some time ago we decided to merge the "blogs" section with >> the "in the news" section... in fact at that time we could have changed it >> to "news" or similar... but if we don't like what is happening now we can >> change the decision and remove the links that you don't like. > > That's not quite what I meant. IMO we can do (for the most part) whatever we > want on the home page, and by we I mean the community acting together > (moderated by the PMC). > > What I have a problem with here is the attempt by Tim to justify one behavior > and condemn the behavior of others by coming up with some weird definition of > the word "news", and saying we should draw the line where it benefits him and > causes problems for others. If we're going to discuss this, let's talk > plainly about what our goals our and see where they conflict, not try to > justify and condemn based on BS semantics and "right fighting". > > -David >
I was only using hte definition that we have used in the past - blogs and things on the wire - not marketing your own stuff- calling it OFBiz and then putting a link to your own site. Are you kidding me Jones? Now you think this is ok too? I've seen everything ... Cheers, Ruppert
