Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 00:33 +0400, Maxim Udushlivy wrote: > >> Havoc Pennington wrote: >> >>> I think the best shot at this would be to gather a small group that >>> agrees on some audience they want to try and do stuff for, and just >>> start doing it; I'm not sure how the overall GNOME boat can be turned up >>> front, it's probably not possible. The small group would have to be >>> prepared for potentially large divergence from the existing >>> gnome-panel/nautilus/etc. desktop codebase - they would need to be open >>> to doing very different things either instead or in addition, if that >>> made sense to provide the benefits to the audience. >>> >>> >> "...gather a small group" - this reminds the infamous lack-of-leadership >> Gnome problem (at least from the outsider perspective) >> >> I was once lurking around planet.gnome.org and there was an interesting >> accident. One guy said about Israel that "it is evil" and another (Jeff >> Waugh?) was trying to moderate him. >> > > I'm going off-topic for the list, but I don't want any > misinformation to spread. I don't remember who it was > that wanted political opinion silenced on the planet, > but it absolutely was not Jeff. The whole idea of the > blog aggregator (and it was pretty much all his idea) > is to let people see the personal lives of the people > who make Gnome work. > > -- > Shaun > May be "was trying" sounds a bit negative, but I completely support Jeff reply regardless of who asked him to do that.
Many people read planet.gnome; it's a public place, not a private home page. There is a good saying: where the freedom of another person starts, mine ends. Political propaganda limits freedom of the mind (there is a choice to completely ignore planet.gnome of course). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
