En/na Dave Neary ha escrit: > Activity on mailing lists and bugzilla is the best way to do that. And > getting to know the developers involved :) Right, but mailings lists and bugzilla are not the best interface for newcomers. And non mailinglistsandbugzilla channels are not the best interface to deal with GNOME developers. We have a problem of interface and the marketing team is in between (and the webhackers too). Please note that marketing people are possibly even more reluctant to dive into mailing lists and bugzilla. And wikis. People like Santiago may hear from us through rss feeds and planets, and any other web based interface with a proper structure & layout, and a reasonable usability. This means we have a structural problem here: in order to get the people that will help us to change/improve our structure and interface we need to change first our structure and interface. Santiago, if you didn't get any proper answer to your questions it was because all the factors exposed now plus a main factor of time and dedication of the marketing team members. Most of us are primarly involved in other parts of the project, we love this corner of GNOME but we spend time and energies when we have them. IMHO the main problems of the marketing team would be solved just by getting more people like you willing to collaborate. We have a problem of human resources as well. :) But... even if you crash here and want to help it's not easy to do so becauste there is a lack of main objectives and strategy. This is the same reason because it's not easy to collaborate even if you are a GNOME insider or even a marketing team regular contributor. Our current objectives and strategy have been mainly individual. Luis thinks this is important and he invests time on it. Dave thinks that is important and does the same. Jeff, Murray, Sri, Quim... add yourself to the list. But... where are the common objectives and strategy? What are the 5 main challenges to be achieved by the merketing team in 2006? We can't even have a version control system to show our progress (were we 6 months ago in 1.2? Are we in 1.3 already or just messing 1.2.4?) As a conclusion, we have a problem of interface, structure, human resources, objectives and strategy. Not bad. :) The good news is that we have a great product: GNOME. Many marketing teams are just in the opposite solution: as a team they are great and well organised but they need to sell crap. I much prefer our situation. If only we would have 2-3 team challenges to achieve, and making explicit they are our priority over the next months. A roadmap, the developers call it. -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature