Hi All, So, as it seems I am going to try and hold an ad-hoc BOF/ brainstorm / discussion about this in San Francisco, anyone interested please let me know.
Thanks for you attention, -Sivan On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Timo Härkönen <timo.harko...@digia.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 19:22 +0200, Sivan Greenberg wrote: >> List, Dawn et al, >> >> This thread is after speaking to Dawn about having some sort of wide >> community event/brainstorming/feedback to get more insight towards how >> community feels with how's the project is managing, quality of >> communication, its deliverables and hopefully any other reservation or >> feedback the community would care to share. >> >> Dawn: you said that this wish of mine to do this kind of thing >> requires a framework and a method, I agree. So far I would like to >> attempt the following: >> >> 0) We send community a link to my talk, to get their ideas rolling. >> Since opinions ranged from being harsh to not being harsh enough I >> risk saying it could be a good device to engage people to comment and >> feedback. Not to mention the 'harsh' points were treater with great >> humor. "He who spares the whip hates his son". This metaphoric saying >> from Hebrew states that when you don't show your child where he's >> wrong you deny him the wisdom of life and development. >> 1) I man a booth or stand throughout the conference where anybody can >> come to me and provide his feedback or thoughts. I volunteer to do >> that. > > Sounds like you should submit a BoF proposal for the conference to go > along with this. > >> 2) We also have a suggestion box where people can submit feedback not >> just about the conference but about the project at whole, if they >> want, anonymously. > > IMO these mailing lists should also work for this purposes. Although > that requires that they are reacted to and the project's management and > processes are transparent. The transparency thing is something that > should be fixed in any case to avoid and to get rid of things like the > "some architectural changes" thread has brought up. Lack of > communication and well defined processes just lead to failures [1]. > > -Timo > > [1] > http://www.rose-hulman.edu/Class/ce/HTML/publications/momentold/winter96-97/hyatt.html > >> 3) I am planning a software solution to empower this sort of thing >> using ofcourse Qt and QML, but this won't be ready until I think the >> next EUpian conference. >> >> I tend to to think that a host with the people sitting and talking in >> an informal manner together with (1) and (2) would suffice for now, is >> this along the lines the framework you had in mind? >> >> -Sivan. >> _______________________________________________ >> MeeGo-community mailing list >> MeeGo-community@meego.com >> http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community >> http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
