Re: Questions for candidates

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

Yes, that was the presentation. The view that maintainers are all that really counts did not strike a resonant chord with me, nor with the EU representative sitting behind me at the presentation, I must say. Rather, this view seems to be closed, exclusive, not particularly bothered about expanding GNOME into the wider world. If there is a collective desire to match a Certain Large Commercial Desktop, then a lot more key expertise is needed at the core of GNOME directional strategy than just the
maintainer view. 

Again, this is only my humble, worthless opinion as a non-core-package-maintainer. If the maintainers-are-all-that-matters view is the correct assessment of the GNOME community culture and the GNOME Desktop, then you can safely ignore my comments as irrelevant. 

I suppose what I am really trying to find out is, is there a collective desire to do something really big with the GNOME Desktop, to really ignite the world, to bring accessible computing to the huddled masses. Or is it all just a nice hobby for a small group of hackers? If the former, then we need to look at the culture of GNOME, if the latter, then the culture is fine by all accounts. 

Pat
 
Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:48AM +1300 or thereabouts, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > > I think that the time has come to look at the identity of the GNOME Desktop, and the GNOME community. For example, I went to a presentation at GU4DEC in Dublin, where the following points were made [to summarize]:
> >
> > Any chance you could tell us what this presentation was? It would be
> > good to see if I have the audio lying around, so that I could make it
> > available for the purposes of the discussion :)
> 
> Looking at the points summarised, this sounds to me like Luis' talk.
> 
> Slides at
> http://developer.ximian.com/articles/presentations/guadec2003/gnome_org/
> 
> Telsa
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