Re: What do you think of the foundation?

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> You publicly embarrassed an individual at item number two. And no, you
> can't make your item number two look any better by trying to escape it. 

<snip>

> The person will hate you, will hate the board and will start persuading
> other people to join him. And for many people he'll most likely succeed
> after such extremely childish board behaviour, too.

<snip>

> I don't want people to be fearful of the board. The board is at this
> moment our cozy own friendly leadership. This is a great achievement of
> our community.
>
> Don't fundamentally change that. Just don't.

Here's the nut of the issue.

I want the board to protect people from being shouted down by people who 
disagree with them.

You want the board to not make waves among the shouters.


You point to the majority of people posting in this thread disagreeing 
with me. A cynic would say that all these people so vehemently opposed 
to this are (a) scaring away all the people who agree with me and who 
have spoken to me about this, and (b) the first people who would likely 
be censured, because they exhibit the type of behaviour which others 
find offensive.


> > To my mind, the person is embarrassing themselves by behaving in a way 
> > that is rude.
>
> This is irrelevant and not even always going to be the case. Not all
> fights happen publicly, for example.

Indeed - the private mails are often worse, more insulting, and more 
damaging to the project.

Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org