Dear All,
As far as I understand we are all on same page regarding out objectives and
long term goals. In every team there are few aggressive, few defensive and
few balanced out players. A team needs each of them equally because each of
them is best at their task.
I understand David's feelings and those of others who have put some long
term dates.
Dear David, you have some great ideas but brother the fact is that when an
army has to attack it can't send 5 soldiers in front. The whole team has to
go. George Bush who commanded the world's strongest armed forces waited for
10 months before launching attack on Al Qaida ( just an example, nothing
against any country , race, religion). Passion is very important but
sometimes we need to wait so that everyone comes along and we can launch the
ATTACK together. This might prove irritating to the soldier standing in
front line but he needs to wait for those bulky infantry guns to come who
will give cover fire during the battle.
I believe instead of entering this wastage of energy accusation war, we
should see which areas can be put on fast track. And I am sure if there are
some such areas where people like David who can devote extra time, then they
can be entrusted with some responsibilities in this regard.
I hope we all focus on tasks ahead. I will wait for Florian or someone from
the group to list out some things which can be fast tracked and what all can
be done by David and group to help with that
I hope we can put an end to this fight now :)
No soldier alone ever won the battle alone, but yes one soldier alone did
cause the Spartans to lose the battle .
We need everyone and everyone is important !!!
Thank You
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote:
Hi Andreas, guys, :-)
Thanks for your responses. I'd like to put some viewpoints that some of you
guys don't seem to have thought of.
Rant
rant
I would like to see an end to this mindset of some people regarding a
three-tier community: the new members, the ex-OOo community members, and
the SC members. (This mindset is not just my imagination: Bernhard
acknowledged and justified it in his post, and Sophie seemed to back him up
about it...)
Sometimes, when I read some ex-OOo members, the words complacency and
condescension pop-up in my mind.
I can tell you that it's irritating having to live with this constant
deference to OOo history.
IMHO, some ex-OOo people need to start thinking forwards, rather than being
rooted in a past that I feel has less relevance than you seem to think.
I feel it's time to say that OOo was the past, LibreOffice and TDF is our
future, and everything started from zero with the TDF launch.
/rant
Elections
When TDF first launched, there was a *lot* of interest and excitement
around
the project. I had the impression that, among others, there were quite a
few
intelligent and well-qualified people with fresh ideas and lots of energy
to
contribute work.
It would be good if SC members were to remember that there are other people
who want a chance to lead the project and to have an influence in its
future
development.
I'd be very keen to see elections, and to see some SC members given a
democratic mandate to continue their valuable work within a 9-member BoD,
but also to see some fresh blood in there, too, with a new outlook.
It would be good because those BoD members will remember that they are
elected for 1 year, and this will be something they will probably bear in
mind in their contact with other community members, and in the work they do
for the project.
Implement the Community Bylaws, and the institutions therein
===
In addition to organizing elections for the BoD, it would also be very
important to:
- quickly start setting-up and operating the institutions mentioned in the
Community Bylaws: the BoD, the ESC, the MC, ...;
- conform to the spirit and letter of the Community Bylaws, and start
officially communicating with the community regularly through
announcements;
I really fail to see any justification for waiting 9 months to set up the
BoD (which should be elected by community vote).
For those that speak of their lack of time and their need to attend to
family commitments, I would have to respectfully reply that maybe you
should
step aside, because there may well be other people with more time and
energy
to devote to the project's work. The project's work should not have to
proceed at the speed of the slowest contributor.
I would like the implementation of the Community Bylaws to be started ASAP,
and I would
