On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:01 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > In any FOSS community, the community is made of the developpers. The > one > who codes is the one who calls the shots. The rest, albeit valuable > sometimes, has no other way than respecting the developpers' decisions > or try to convince them they are wrong. There is hence no question of > separating the community and the developpers. > I think I put a slightly different slant on this. I entirely agree that the open-source communities which work best are the do-ocracies, those which value people according to what they contribute. By contribute, I don't just mean posting to a mailing list, which can be just an ego-trip. I mean people who actually contribute code (if a developer), translations (N-L), artwork (art project), collateral (on a marketing list), etc.
So I like to think of OOo as a community of different projects, each valuing their contributors according to how they contribute to that project's aims. I think it is entirely right e.g. for the MP to try and encourage developers to code what the market wants. We maybe need some mechanism whereby people gain community points for doing things, and maybe lose them for just creating noise on lists :-) John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
