Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

[Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof gnome org>]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:27 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:

> So, let's start (this is list done quickly by me and I haven't contacted 
> anybody from it), as basis:
> 
> - Robert Love
> - Christopher Blizzard
> - Miguel De Icaza
> - Nat Friedman
> - Daniel Veillard
> - Edd Dumbill
> - Glynn Foster
> - James Henstridge
> - Jeff Waugh
> - Mark McLoughlin
> - Scott James Remnant

Many of these people are and have been top GNOME people.

You'd be insane if you wanted to remove them from the planet.

If you want to destroy GNOME as a community, you're on the right track.

> > [1] How does one define that they have "left the GNOME community" ?
> 
> this list is based on people either no longer blogging at all or not 
> blogging about GNOME and not being active in GNOME. I don't have any 
> problem about people who blogs about non-political oriented things in 
> their life, as long as GNOME is one of those things...
> 
> I'm not even sure I should still be on Planet GNOME (even if I'm release 
> team member), since most of my posts aren't about GNOME but about the 
> distribution I work on. And I sometime feels those posts could be seen 
> as propaganda for my distribution.

This is nonsense. The planet-gnome slogan is:

Planet GNOME is __ a window into the world, work and lives __ of GNOME
hackers and contributors.

This is what made the planet a successful project, initiated by Jeff
Waugh (who you propose for removal ^).

If you want to fundamentally change the planet, why don't you start your
own planet and convince the world that yours is better?

> Regarding what bedhad said, nothing prevent people to read those people 
> blog outside Planet GNOME (like Planet Mono or anything else).

Nothing prevents you from starting your own planet.

I'm pretty sure that you can even get a neat subdomain under GNOME's
from the admins.

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