Hi, A quick note on meritocracies.
Andrew Flegg wrote: > According to Imad Sousou at the last TSG meeting[1], the MeeGo > Technical Steering Group consists of two seats: > > * Intel (Imad Sousou) > * Nokia (currently vacant after Valtteri Halla left Nokia) Companies typically don't have inherent merit. To cite one example, when Mitchell Baker left AOL (I can't remember whether she resigned or was laid off, it's irrelevant), AOL decided to appoint someone to take over from her as Chief Lizard Wrangler. But Mitchell said "Hello, I'm still here - I don't work for AOL any more, but I'm *still* the Chief Lizard Wranger" - and people followed her, and not the AOL appointee. I had understood that the TSG was made up of Imad & Valtteri, not Intel & Nokia. Has Valtteri resigned from the TSG officially? Combined with appointments of companies (whose representatives, with the exception of Yonghui Wang of China Mobile, have not sent even one email to any MeeGo lists) this makes MeeGo look less & less like a meritocracy and more & more like a collection of corporate partnerships. This has benefits too, don't get me wrong - there's nothing inherently wrong about an Eclipse Foundation-type trade association, but it is not what has been announced & reiterated, and what I believed the project leaders wanted the project to become. If the nature of the MeeGo project changed on February 11th, it would be nice to know. Cheers, Dave. -- Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
