On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:04:50 -0700 Stormy Peters <stormy.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there people on this list that are not GNOME Foundation members? If so, > can you speak up? It would be good for everyone to know why you subscribe to > foundation-list and the value you see in it. Technically I'm not on the list - I read it through gmane. But I do read it because I want to know what is up with the GNOME project. I want to see what's coming, and, crucially, I want to see how the project's processes work. I watch a lot of projects. In my opinion, the projects which conduct their discussions in the open tend to be the most robust and the most successful. Those which hold their discussions behind closed doors, perhaps occasionally issuing a press release to tell the world what they are up to, have far less engaged user and developer communities. As long as GNOME is a project that matters, there will always be bozos who will post uneducated articles about what you are doing. If your discussions are in the open, people who really care can see what was *really* said and help to keep those bozos (people like me) honest. If you hide behind closed doors, the bozos get the last word. Articles about GNOME will be less frequent, less accurate, and less likely to be corrected. Is that really what you want? jon _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list