On Sunday 12 February 2006 01:04, Andrew Hill wrote: > At last, a couple of notes of sanity, presented in a clear and > concise manner. Thanks Richard and linuxgirlie. I have found a lot of > interesting ideas and links through this list in the past relevant to > my roles as a lecturer and as E-learning Co-ordinator for England's > Learning & Skills Development Agency. In the latter capacity I am > constantly bringing OpenOffice alternatives to the attention of > Further Education practitioners and, indeed, advising on effective > implementation of best practice at senior levels in the sector, > including OFSTED inspectors. > > I do not have time to wade through what appears to be some in-house > distended disagreement and would urge participants to consider > carefully the audience that this list now reaches and perhaps use > some other form of communication when appropriate. One good > old-fashioned phone call should have resolved the last issue. > > I had reached the point of deleting recent items without bothering to > read them and wondering whether I had inadvertently joined a private > message board. > > Enough. > Greetings Andrew,
At some point, there will be discussion that centers around administration of individual lists. This is not done by private email or phone call from one side of the world to the other because that would then remove such conversation from the public arena. As Sophie pointed out, that is considered courtesy in opensource projects. Your post is not helpful at all to the discussion and neither was Richard's. Neither added anything to the discussion, simply belittled peoples input into the process which is a tried and true method. Robust discussion of differences of opinion without flaming is good for continuing growth. Linuxgirlies post by contrast added to the discussion without belittling the process or the people involved. If you have nothing constructive to add then say nothing. If such debate offends your senses then delete the thread Don't belittle either Sophie or Ian or myself for the passion of our convictions. The passion of our debate is simply a reflection of a long time working hard for the project over a long period in many areas that has developed ideas about the management of the project. The fact that I disagreed with Sophie subtracts nothing from the huge respect I have for her and her contribution to the greater OOo project. If you had read the posts you would see that a consensus has been reached, the system works. So I say to you: Enough! unless you have something meaningful to add. -- Graham Lauder OpenOffice.org Marcon New Zealand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Gold Assessor Trainer www.theingots.org Member Open Document fellowship http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
