* Margarita Manterola <margamanterola@gmail.com> [2004:12:02 12:29 -0300]: <snip lots of good stuff> > Also, the violence of debian-devel@l.d.o is a big draw-back. It has > the effect that I am so wary of saying something wrong that I end up > not participating, or at least not as much as I would like to. Same here. > There are lots of things I like about the project, though, and that's > why I want to contribute. But as I've said more than once before, if > we *really* want to take over the world, and -more seriously- we > **really** are devoted to our users, then we should start building a > more open community. How can users be our first priority if we can't > listen to what they want and what they are asking for? How can we > devote ourselves to someone we don't know? > > I'm thinking about talking about all this in the next Debconf, but I'm > afraid I'll be tossed rotten tomatos (or their verbal equivalent). I thought the same would happen to be when I gave my d-w talk, but you see how well that turned out. :-) Really, I think the DDs that are willing to show their faces and meet with other developers are a lot more likely to care about the community aspect so, if I were you, I would not worry about this -- I suspect a lot of good could come from it. -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide
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