2011/7/13 Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > Hi :) > Would his description be more accurate if someone changed it from ... > "David is the LibreOffice community representative in Brazil." > to > "David is a LibreOffice community representative in Brazil." > > It is difficult to claim someone is representing any community accurately > as the > whole point about a community is that there are many diverse, probably > conflicting, opinions and representing all those opinions in a fair way is > very > difficult and possibly unlikely to happen. We do what we can but never > achieve > perfection (hopefully). It is even difficult if the community votes on who > is > to 'represent them'. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > Hi Tom.
In my view, anyone who contribute is a "community representative", mainly TDF members. When someone describes himself as "community representative", he's taking a "title" that doesn't belong to him. That could give the wrong impression he's "in charge" of community's public relationships, when he's not. But I also think this discussion is taking a wrong path. I don't think we must "judge" people for what they've done at this very moment. I think Claudio's comment was made only to advise MC that this issue could become "ugly" under brazilian community's eyes, with David in MC. It *could*, but it doesn't mean it *will*, right? Rgds -- Paulo de Souza Lima Técnico em Eletrônica e Administrador http://www.pasl.net.br http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729 "For people to achieve peace in their relationships, spiritual peace and the peace among people, it's necessary, earlier, to win the internal battle between virtues and defects" - Talal Husseini - Acropolitan Philosopher -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
