Re: bad press in the G+ circles/press

[Karl Fischer <kmf fischer org za>]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 18:56, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

> The thing is, I want to also educate.  Designing a desktop is a completely different space than kernel development and a lot of these kernel guys are trying to apply principles they learned hacking on the kernel to a user facing software eco-system.  Not the same thing.  We have one high profile kernel developer after another standing up and publicly talking about switching to XFCE.  I don't particularly care, but it's creating a trend that will be hard to ignore for marketing.  I promised myself that I would not allow what happened from 1.x -> 2.x to re-occur because we botched it badly because we didn't engage with the community.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 22:05, Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com> wrote:

> "What I mean is that, if you enter the discussion, do it in a
constructive way. It's about tackling empty, fallacious, or too vague
statements ; and get to the point. It's about pro-actively extracting
valuable feedback."

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Here's a snip,
from Slashdot :
(http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/01/24/1842218/Linus-Switches-From-KDE-To-Gnome)
"In a recent Computerworld interview, Linus revealed that he's
switched to Gnome — this despite launching a heavily critical
broadside against Gnome just a few years ago. His reason? He thinks
KDE 4 is a 'disaster.' Although it's improved recently, he'll find
many who agree with this prognosis, and KDE 4 can be painful to use."


Linus is Linus, even though we need to hear what all our users say and
what their feedback is. All feedback is important.
Sure Linus has influence, maybe we can leverage off this, to benefit project.

I have to agree with Luc.

Maybe having a similar open space like "http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/";
we can stir conversation and get more awesome feedback.

Karl