>> the OR solution which is a bit of your 1st thing and 2nd thing: >> As far i as understood it : "uservoice.com" is a business web host >> not affiliated with Mozilla, so it is not a Mozilla.org foundation >> forum, seems like Mozilla outsourced this forum/user feedback to >> "uservoice.com". > > I can imagine that once we have some users, there's a reasonable chance > that we'll want to know what they think, and to let them vote on what > their favourite new feature might be, but being an old cynic, I have a > suspicion that the reason that mozilla might outsource this sort of > thing is to keep users away from their developer mailing lists ;-)
True that FF is quite a big thing now, ~2000 users in the middle of dvlp mails could be dazzling! > > The point is that while I may find it interesting that 99% of potential > freedomboxers agree that the killer feature for FB is a facebook portal, > I won't be doing anything about that, since I don't use or care about > facebook, so I'll do those things that interest me regardless of any > vote (i.e. at 4 a.m. last night I was trying to work out why the latest > u-boot renders the booted linux on OpenRD unable to drive the ethernet > properly -- hardly a vote winner ;-) > > Also, I cannot see why (even if we wanted such a thing) one would base a > user feedback mechanism it in a centralised, proprietary platform. We > generally eat our own dogfood when we can. How much respect would > Debian get if all our project's servers were running Solaris? > > Please note, I'm not trying to quench your enthusiasm. I'm hoping that > you'll direct it towards working on something concrete that will move us > closer to out goal of building a FreedomBox. > > Just choose something to work on, and go do it. That could even be > something like setting up a user forum if that's your thing, but if you > do that, do it because you think it's justified in its own right, and > despite the fact that most of the people here will continue to be _here_. > > If you do a good enough job of building it, people will come -- that's > what Jonas is on about when he mentions that Debian is a "do-ocacy". ahha! now i better grasp how open-source community works... seems like a happy anarcho-programmers group!! 8-p i understand and respect this way of do-ocracy work (i do it my self from time to time when i need a tool or something to get done) It is truely amazing to me to discover that lots of free SW i'm used to use might be done this way, i better understand the unknown parameter on the "release time frame" too. I'm surprised and delighted to see things get to work eventually, this SW-anarchist way! Q : i'm curious, how this project is organized ? is that, you choose what you want to work on, and get started with it... or is there a project manager ? a coordinator ? a motivator ? to drive/focus enthusiastic workforces ? is there a hierarchy somehow ? (and i don't mean an assh011e siting on the top of your shoulder pretending he's tall) is there a group spirit ? a group energy ? i understand some people like to dog-work on their bone alone, in their garage and that's good! and i do believe some people crave for team effort, team work somehow... see yesterday on this list i saw a *kid* out of his school sending a mail saying "waooo, i kinda like this project, i know this and that, how may i contribute ?" to me it was a message from someone having great energy, enthusiasm to add to the project but it seems to me he needs a senior a vet' or coordinator to welcome him, to guide him toward what he good at and enable him to have a strong contribution to the project at large!! thanks to anyone contributing to my enlightenment by answering my too-many-questions on this topic! and i wish you a happy WE ! _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
