Re: Proposal for First Draft of GNOME Style Guide 1.1

[Bowie Poag <bjp primenet com>]

> > Tom, the conference was announced on freshmeat and slashdot.  You *have*
> > heard of the Slashdot Effect, haven't you?  :-)
> 
> I have, being a regular /. reader.
> 
> however, it will mean there will be about 2k people there, half of them just
> to look, half of the rest without any real interest in gnome or user
> interface, half of the interested without a clue in both and so on.
> 
> whereas on the list everyone knows WHY he's there and what it's all about.

Again, i'm tempted to say that it looks like you want the Style Guide's
development to be a closed process, Tom.. Do clarify that for me, why you
think adding the general public into the decision-making process, in
addition to the mailing list, is NOT a good idea?

Bowie