Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-04-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
OK folks, let's keep moving otherwise we'll just rathole into a topic that we don't need to get into. Richard has made his point. Let's move on. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Luc Pionchon wrote: > On 27 April 2013 19:15, Lefty wrote: > >> On Apr 27, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Luc Pionchon wrote: >

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-04-27 Thread Luc Pionchon
On 27 April 2013 19:15, Lefty wrote: > On Apr 27, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Luc Pionchon wrote: > > On 27 April 2013 17:08, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Continuously telling some of our biggest fans that they are wrong all >> the time is not the way to grow our project. >> > > As a soft note, I did not rea

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-04-27 Thread Luc Pionchon
On 27 April 2013 17:08, Stormy Peters wrote: > Hi Richard, > > They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source > projects. I think we should refer to them as open source projects > regardless of what we call GNOME. > > If people from open source software projects want to joi

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-04-27 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Richard, They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source projects. I think we should refer to them as open source projects regardless of what we call GNOME. If people from open source software projects want to join us at a GNOME event to learn more about GNOME, we should

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-04-27 Thread Richard Stallman
This is true. Portland has a very large presence of many open source based start ups We're happy to accept support from those that talk about "open source", but let's take care to present GNOME as a free/libre software project, with the goal of giving users freedom, rather than using the