> > It looks like I'll get to the 'fest on Thursday, by which time I trust > the pillars of the LinuxCNC community will have this all sorted out > and I'll just show off my 3D printer and wave my ARMs! :) > > - -- > Charles Steinkuehler
We should be so lucky. The LinuxCNC (nee EMC) community is a very diverse bunch. Some folks have been involved for only a few months, others have been around since 1996. Some are only modestly involved. Some devote most of their waking hours to working with it, even if they never actually run a real machine with it. Some believe that LinuxCNC should be a religion and needs to be actively promoted to the unwashed masses. Others feel that it just IS and should be left alone to exist in peace. Some come to it as a free and excellent body of code that is available for their own personal use and others see it as part of what provides their livelihood. (Disclaimer, I hope to be among the latter.) Some believe that the code must be protected by strong licensing from those who might attempt to use it without contributing back to the community. Others believe that it should be sown upon the earth freely for anyone to use in any fashion they wish without the hassles of legal contracts. Some want there to be a formal organization that manages the future of LinuxCNC. Others are allergic to any form of control. That LinuxCNC has continued to be developed proves that people do like it and find it worthy of their time and effort to improve it, despite the different view points on how it should evolve. I do hope that the session in Wichita continues in the same spirit as past versions and functions as an opportunity to improve the code while going lightly upon the substance of governance. The chance to have a significant number of people face to face in Wichita to discuss and work on LinuxCNC is a great opportunity, but lets not forget that the community is much larger than the fortunate ones who can attend in person. Steve Stallings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
