On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:38 -0700, Lefty wrote: > First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard > sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came > up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the > Board propose to do to address the ongoing waste of time and energy in > the community over trivia like "Linux" versus "GNU/Linux", "free" > versus "open source", and the like. This extends to things like > "litmus tests" on mailing lists derailing discussions into > observations about which email clients or operating systems > participants might be using at the time they post, for example. > > Attempts to divide the community and delegitimize individuals and > their viewpoints are common, and becoming increasingly so in the past > few years. Bad feelings have driven many away from the level of > involvement in the community they've previously had. Do candidates see > this as a problem? Do they have any proposals for addressing it?
If you have particular examples to go with this, I'm sure the Foundation Board could look into this, but I haven't seen any ostracism in our community that wasn't in part brought by the person who ended up being shunned. > Second: Do candidates have any view as to how the disastrous attempts > at engagement by GNOME with the mobile space might be improved on? The > "GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative" went nowhere, and arguably > handed the mobile device space to Google and Android by forfeit. Since > that time, there have been various attempts to get community-based, > mainstream open source onto mobile devices, all of which have pretty > much died. The sole remaining effort seems to be MeeGo, and GNOME has > no apparent direct involvement there. > > Do candidates have any thoughts on the future of GNOME with respect to > the mobile space? It's the fastest-growing portion of the general > computing device market, and the main platform choices are proprietary > or as good as. One of the issues raised by Canonical with respect to > the GNOME 3 shell for Ubuntu was that it wasn't felt to be as > appropriate for tablets and the like as Unity... GNOME mobile was never going to be _a_ product, as we didn't not build a phone UI, and probably won't for a while still. We should re-target the marketing effort as a way to show off our technologies. As for tablets, I seriously doubt Unity is any more ready to handle tablets than GNOME 3 is, whether at the bottom or at the top of the stacks. Effort is under way, and I'm sure we'll all be happy when a more complete solution is available. That ends up being a technical problem though, rather than one for the GNOME Foundation to handle. I expect the GNOME Foundation to support those efforts adequately. Cheers _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
