Re: Reducing the board size
- From: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
- To: Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu>
- Cc: Glynn Foster Sun COM, Foundation-List <foundation-list gnome org>, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
- Subject: Re: Reducing the board size
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:16:22 +0200
By the way, I'm having trouble taking this mail as anything other than a
personal attack...
Anne Østergaard a écrit :
People with too much time on there hands could be dangerous to the
community and to the future and the direction of the GNOME Foundation,
as they tend to think that there personal opinion is important on all
matters and every tiny detail. (We have seen the same four board members
express there opinions time and time again.
I'm part of that four, right?
This does not mean that
others agree with the guys that writes the most- but it tells us that
there are a lack of regular voting going on during board meetings. This
gives outsiders the impression that the ship is sailing without a proper
direction. It is not good for a successful and growing organisation like
GNOME.
I agree that lack of direction is a problem. Where should this direction
come from, in your opinion?
I find it important that persons stick to the areas of there special
expertise. If this is developing code maybe they should concentrate on
this- and leave some things to people with expertise in other matters-
where they are the best suited. (One does not have to have or air an
opinion on every single matter- or for that matter sit and control the
work of the others all the time. Marketing, conference planning and fund
raising are quite different from writing code.)
Being good at coding does not necessarily mean that these same persons
who write code or fix bugs are good at community building, organisation,
marketing, fund raising etc. or even at giving presentations- please
leave these functions to those who are.
Since these 3 issues just so happen to be the areas I've been involved
for the past couple of years, and where I have come into conflict with
you, I have to reply to this point.
When I was elected to the board last year, the GNOME foundation
marketing was done by a closed little cabal on a private mail alias. Now
we have a growing community of people on a public list, with the private
list for writing press releases and dealing with press contacts.
Last year when we were planning GUADEC together, there was a
mis-communication (I know you think otherwise, but frankly I stopped
caring what you think around that time). You believe that you and Tim
were going to plan the entire third day of GUADEC. I believed that the
third day would primarily come from user-oriented presentations through
the call for papers. In the end, the most popular and well received
talks on user day were the ones I insisted be there.
Do you feel that you better represent the community's interests when
planning conferences or building teams, Or doing marketing?
If you're going to make thinly veiled attacks on people, the least you
can do is take off the veil and say what you mean.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
David Neary
bolsh gimp org
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