On 6/8/06, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a side note: I think it's interesting that big Fortune 500 corporations like Sun and Microsoft are more open, more transparent and more trusting of their own people than Apache when it comes to blogging, wikis, etc.
Well, first, the members *are* the corporation here. There is not us and them, it's all us. And it's only blogging. I'm not aware of any et ceteras. No one is policing the mailing lists, web sites, or wiki's. I missed the blogging discussions, but I expect that the core problem is that we are all moonlighters, wearing many hats. People reading individual blogs don't know whether we are wearing our ASF hat or our Sun hat or our Google hat. If we were all actual employees of the ASF, then I expect it would be different. There is a lot of peer pressure to stay on topic on the lists and web sites, but with blogs, things are more likely to drift. As a compromise, some ASFers setup PlanetApache. It's a separate entity, but we maintain a close relationship. * http://www.PlanetApache.org/ Perhaps one day, PlanetApache could be powered by Roller! -Ted.
