On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:10:32 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Thanks for presenting your thoughts. I'm going to make a few remarks on a meta level: > - Debian shouldn't do funding of Debian work for various reasons, > that add up to it not having the support of the developer body [..] > No doubt some of these > conclusions were obvious to some people before this was ever raised; > unfortunately not everyone's that well informed. When I read the first mail about Dunc-Tank I thought: "Hu? This will lead to a disaster. Don't they know it or are they deliberately ignoring it?" Why? Because not only my personal experience in NPOs but also the scientific literature on this subject show that a mix of paid staff and volunteers in an organization/project leads to disagreement/conflicts; and that introducing organzational changes needs a specific way of doing so (getting consent, involving affected parties, ...). If I understand your mail correctly you (and the Dunc-Tank board) didn't ignore these well-known facts on purpose but you just didn't know them (which is a little embarrassing from my POV but at least it doesn't look malicious -- and I have no reason not to believe you). > I presume the real question is whether anyone gets funded to do Debian > stuff in the future. IMO the "real question" is how we as the Debian community cope with the social system called "Debian", especially with the issue of organziational change. -- And from my POV it would be helpful if either those "techies" who have influential positions in Debian learned some basics about social systems or if they at least consulted someone with a little more clue about social phenomena before taking decisions/starting new initiatives. gre "Biella for DPL" gor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Bob Dylan: One of us must know (Sooner or Later)
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