Martin Bochnig wrote: > A pity that nobody of you X11-group folks invited me
Sun didn't host the conference, nor invite anyone. X.Org set it up, and invited anyone who wanted to come, and even offered to pay for travel for those who had contributed to X.Org somehow (like several students working on Google Summer of Code projects who came - they didn't have big contributions to X.Org but got sponsorship anyway). Sun contributed money to X.Org to help cover conference costs, including facilities & sponsorships, but left it up to X.Org to decide who would be sponsored. As far as I know, no individuals got direct invitations - everyone just read the announcements on the Xorg mailing list or web page and applied for sponsorship if they wanted to go and needed financial help. > (in fact all of your group's staff didn't even respond to my polite "hello" > from a month ago) I haven't asked them, but I would expect a polite hello will not undo the filtering they do (either mentally or in their e-mail client) on your mails after your previous flaming of them. Nor do they send out general "Hi how are you?" messages to anyone else on this list - you're not alone in not getting mail from people, you're only alone in expecting us to take time away from our work to be generally chatty with you. I have enough problems getting them to send messages about X to the list, whether answering questions or announcing things they're working on, much less trying to tell them "Ignore the list of tasks you have to work on and go out and try to boost the ego of someone who is going to flame you anyway." > However: When you look at > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/observers/ you find many people > that almost never show up. "Observers" in our webapp is really strange - it's people who went to a project website, said "this looks cool" and clicked the link to list themselves as an observer. The only thing I know of that it does besides list your name on that page is list your name on the page on which I can grant write access to the SCM. Otherwise, I think it's meaningless and don't pay attention to it. > And under http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/leaders/ you see folks > who are simply doing their paid day-job (with the exception of Moinak Ghosh, > who is a true community member). You were under that page until you decided you were leaving OpenSolaris and asked for all your accounts and access to be removed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
