I am not a board member or anything official, I'm just some guy who hacks on
linuxcnc sometimes. I speak for myself.
I've been following this thread since the start, and there is a disconnect
between what people are asking for and how i think this project works.
People are saying thing like:
"What's the road map of features for future releases?"
"What features should/shouldn't I work on?"
"Who holds the Treasurer position?"
"How do you assign tasks to developers?"
These kinds of questions make no sense in my mental model of the project.
This is not a company and I am not an employee, so nobody gets to tell me what
to do. I'm a volunteer and I do this because I like our community, and
machining, and programming. I'm doing this for fun, in my spare time that I
could be doing other fun things of my own choosing.
If someone wants to make a roadmap, or a list of features they want, or a 5
year plan of what they think everyone should work on, that's fine by me - but
it doesnt really affect me, and it doesnt change what I'll do tonight after i
tuck my kids into bed.
I have a list of things *I* want to do to the linuxcnc project, but I'd never
dream of telling anyone to work on them. It's not my place to tell folks what
to do.
I do not publicise my todo list because I'm afraid that doing so might make
people impatient for the tasks to be finished, and the pressure of that public
expectation would diminish my enjoyment of doing the work. I have enough
schedule and pressure in my day job and other parts of my life, I dont need any
more! That's not what I'm here for!
I have never read the "Board of Directors Terms of Service", and until people
in this thread started talking about it I didnt realize we had one. I will
not go read it now, because I don't care. To me, this project works well, and
legalese bores me.
I run my part of our infrastructure on my dime because I happen to have the
equipment and skills and interest to do it, and i think it makes our shared
project better. I have no interest in trying to untangle the expense of it
from the rest of my household expenses and requesting a reimbursement from a
project treasurer. I dont know if we even *have* a treasurer, and if we do i
dont want to spend my open-source hacking hour talking about bills. I'd rather
just hack.
That's where I'm coming from.
----- Reply message -----
From: "Sven Wesley" <svenne.d...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 05:12
Subject: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors
To: <mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil>, "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
<emc-us...@lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>
> Andy,
>
> Understandable. The paypal link could be set up so that it could be
> turned on when funds are needed and turned off when the funding is met.
> The treasurer would have to stay on top of that though.
>
> Mark
>
>
This must be the most wide spread discussion in ages at this mailing list,
forums, lists, bills, credits... Doesn't matter, it just shows that even
the silent people can speak (which also is a Chinese saying). :)
If you guys think that the internal forum works well so be it. To me it's
not better at all than (for example) cnczone or the mailing list. One board
all questions, and that makes the mailing list superior. And unfortunately,
there were many broken links to the forum before. Cnczone being commercial?
There's no secret I'm a moderator at the zone. There's no secret a page
with 140 000 members need better servers than "our" page. Of course there
will be banners. Stating that it's a bad idea because the site might go
pay-to-view based - will not happen. Why on Earth would you bite your own
feeder? IF that happens, I'm the first guy to leave the site. We're lucky
that someone supports the LinuxCNC (formerly known as EMC2) community with
CPU and storage. So who will pay it otherwise? A paypal account seems to be
a good idea - at first. How should the board/community handle the scenario
when a "supportive company" transfers $ 100 000 and after a short while
demands to get their requirements sorted out? Who will be responsible for
the book keeping? What should happen if there's more money than needed?
What should happen when there's LESS money than neeeded?..
My first opinion is still not changed, there are too many communication
channels for a small (in a community perspective) project. it seems some of
you are pretty gnarly when it comes to commercial fundings (you're not
using Youtube, are you?..). Then kill the mailing list. That's commercially
based service, even more than the zone.
There's not a single response on Roadmap planning nor black/white listing -
suggestions that _really_ affects the evolution of the software. Not even
from other developers...
Regards,
Sven
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