My comments below, Rob
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Randall Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >________________________________ > >From: Sunny B <[email protected]> > >To: List for community development <[email protected]> > >Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:01 AM > >Subject: Re: Election announcement article (formatting & questions) > > > > > > > >Alan, > > > >You are the one who started a thread called "The end is coming...". In > it, you said "the maemo community is (almost) nothing without Nokia" and > argued that "the best thing the Maemo community can do over the next > year > and a half is to transition to the MeeGo community." And you have argued > against people at maemo.org organizing themselves, voluntarily. I don't > know if you > are the "primary person" or not, but hey you did put yourself out there. > > > > I'd like to defend Alan here. > > First I'd like to move past finger pointing. That's divisive and > unnecessary. Umm, it was Alan's own email that went beyond the "some > people" and pointed to himself. If anything was divisive, it was probably > the proposal to "transition" and shut down maemo.org. The "people are > unfairly criticizing me" email was unnecessary, as I pointed out, the > criticism has been of the opinion and there's been no name calling or finger > pointing at Alan, etc. > > Second, he's essentially correct in his judgment: Maemo the OS has a > limited life without Nokia's backing, assuming it will never be released > 100% to the wild (and I believe that to be a safe assumption but would love > to be proven wrong). A general transition to MeeGo *does* make sense, and > even Cordia should be able to fit. That you agree with the opinion is > besides the point. Alan's email was about more than whether his opinion > was correct. > > Finally, I have seen nothing from him arguing "against people at > maemo.orgorganizing themselves, voluntarily". I think that's a leap. What I > see is > him disagreeing with are ASPECTS and some suggestions, NOT the core activity > per se. Knowing Alan I cannot believe such a thought would even cross his > mind. I may be wrong there, and this is just my opinion being expressed. Oh, > don't take it out of context. We're talking about the issues raised by the > referendum. It was recognized quickly that winding down or better > organizing maemo.org are pretty much binary options. > > I realize there's a lot of emotion here and I've been guilty of succumbing > to it, too, but please: let's ALL try to be objective, especially community > leaders. I will do better myself. > > Randy > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community >
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