Re: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum

[brendan <bed88012 gmail com>]

Doesn't this undermines the values of the open source community? While
where at making a private list for discussions, why not make the whole
gnome project, closed source. The news we generate from such
discussions, gives the gnome project public visibility that is needed
for gnome to grow.

The reason I love open source is that it open for ___anyone___ to
participate in the community and allows for people to come up with ideas
that "Foundation Members" never would of thought of. It's the whole
point of open source.

Thanks


Brendan



On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:49 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> [/me removes board hat]
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make 
> foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation 
> members.  If we make that change we would be able to discuss matters freely 
> without making lots of news that more often than not are harmful to our image 
> to the world in general.
> 
> Please sign here:  http://live.gnome.org/PrivateFoundationListPetition
> 
> We would need 35 to 40 signatures to put this to vote.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> behdad
>