On 08/14/2011 03:20 AM, Revd Kathy Smith wrote:
Your response to Texrat's reply seems to me to be sign of a tendency to take stuff personally. I recognise it because I have that tendency too. When Nokia announced the n9 and two or three people made comments on forum.meego that it should be discussed there as it wasn't relevant, I felt personally slighted and made unwelcome: but there was nothing personal in the comments, and careful study showed it was one or two posters at most making those responses. So I would invite you to present specifics. Bring us the actual statements which have made you feel that the community is unwelcoming, and let us look at them. If there are one or two being overly brusque we'll point that out to them. But a broad brush sweep at the 'whole community' insults everyone, when MOST people round here are helpful, welcoming and well-meaning.
Your response, and Daniel's, is something I feared. My e-mail is more about the development community and not the user community. I thought about posting to the maemo-developers list, but then Andre or someone else will tell me to post on the community list. Plus I talk about MeeGo so should I cross-post to MeeGo? (I hate cross posting) Or perhaps post on t.m.o or f.m.o? Posting to maemo-community seemed the least evil thing to do.
The other thing I invite you do is make sure you have it clear in your head what is the role of the Maemo community, what is MeeGo Community (they are not the same, and the two communities operate very differently) and what is the corporate business of Nokia. Blaming the community for Nokia's business decisions is taking a meaningless swipe at the wrong people, some of whom are every bit as hacked off as you are at the decisions, but finding creative ways to live with it.
While I do have some frustration at Nokia, it is not entirely focused on them. My creative way of living with it would be to pursue an Android device. :)
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