On Monday 14 May 2007 23:30, M Harris wrote: ... > > opensuse-ux should probably be opensuse-useability
It was usability, but guys that lead the usability thought that as User eXperience is what they actually want to improve, list should be renamed accordingly. > and opensuse-offtopic should probably be opensuse-nontechnical The offtopic is broader, and allows much moretopics to be covered. > opensuse should be opensuse-technical > > ... and the reason is that opensuse sounds like: opensuse-general ?? It sounds, but the name was selected to make new user decision where to ask for help easy. > I realize that there are some who just want the technical and are not so > much concerned for the community... and by that I mean the interaction of > the community members to each other... on various levels. For the community > to bond, grow, become a cohesive entity the community members need to get > to know each other, and for other than technical merits of opensuse. This > is particularly important from a worldview standpoint. I have always > believed in world peace through world trade... and old IBM principle... and > I believe even stronger today in world peace through world development and > ownership... openSUSE style, Ubuntu style, etc. World-wide discussion > lists which provide cohesive venues for wholesome dialogue among nations > and people groups is just plain awesome. Even when things get a little > tense sometimes, free communication fosters understanding and brotherhood. > The point is, to be able to interact with the openSUSE community world-wide > (not just the USA, or the EU, etc) is the major benefit of the list > servers... I am in favor of placing social, patent, copyleft, FOSS specific > to openSUSE, on the opensuse-project list, if its welcome there--- and if > the community will really be willing to dialogue from that venue. There > really isn't much point to posting those issues to offtopice particularly > if folks don't read them... but from another angle its just as easy to post > to a personal blog for that.... again, the point is to have a meaningful > dialogue with the community... not just post a diatribe blog style. Agree. Free dialog is needed to build community and opensuse-project is probably the best place. Important is that we have to think on guys that are just arriving to Linux and choose opensuse mail list as they don't really know where their problem belongs. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
