On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 01:45:15AM +0200, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote: > I'll play devil's advocate here:
Hi Mathieu, I'll start by saying that playing devil's advocate isn't really likely to be a helpful way to contribute to this discussion. The board should consider the opinions that the GNOME community genuinely holds, not opinions that exist purely to be argued. If you really feel this way then you're not playing devil's advocate - if you don't, then do you believe that this is a genuinely beneficial contribution to the discussion? > Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities > more directly beneficial to its future than OPW? GNOME exists because people contribute to it. OPW has demonstrated a strong track record of creating long-term contributors. The mere existence of OPW has caused people who might otherwise not be enthusiastic about contributing to GNOME to contribute to GNOME, even without the board spending any money on them. Spending money on creating the impression that GNOME is a safe space is an excellent way to increase the pool of potential contributors, and this has succeeded far beyond spending the same amount of money on full-time developers. So, by every reasonable metric, OPW has proven to be directly beneficial to the goals of the project. I'm sure that the board is willing to consider alternatives, as long as those alternatives are equally compelling. So far, I haven't seen any. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list