Re: GNOME Project Organogram

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On 2/12/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Quim Gil <quimgil gmail com> wrote:
> > Mmm but wait, at least my GNOME experience as contributor is not
> > dependant to the code in the repositories and the release team, as the
> > diagram shows.
> >
> > At least board, marketing team, web team and GUADEC (or GNOME events
> > in general) will also run and keep running no matter which decisions
> > relating to code are made. They are not waiting the release team
> > agenda to define their actions.
>
> They can make decisions, but their actions have no meaning without
> code and coders. Without coders and decisions made by coders, there is
> nothing to market; no point to having a conference; nothing to have a
> website about; etc.

I should note again that I think this indicates a *flaw* in the
project. This should be *inter*dependency, not *dependency* as it
currently is. But perhaps a good problem statement for the board, for
the marketing team, for the web team, etc., is 'how do we make
ourselves as indispensable as the coders are?'

Luis