[board-discuss] today's agenda

2012-02-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I just added some items to today's agenda at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetings#Agenda It looks rather long, but for most of the items, I only plan to distribute work to some of you, rather than discuss them in detail, so don't worry. ;-) Florian -- Florian

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Pedro, Le Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:17:10 -0800 (PST), Pedro pedl...@gmail.com a écrit : Charles-H.Schulz wrote This being said and at the risk of sounding evil and stubborn: FOSS has never been about demoracy. It's limited democracy at best, that is, democracy narrowed to a very

[tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Pedro
Hi again Charles Charles-H.Schulz wrote Do you have examples? I'd be happy to hear about them, I'm sure we work in a very similar fashion... Of course. Here is an excellent one http://emergedesktop.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1419 You don't work in a similar fashion ;) Regards, Pedro --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Pedro, Le Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:47:05 -0800 (PST), Pedro pedl...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi again Charles Charles-H.Schulz wrote Do you have examples? I'd be happy to hear about them, I'm sure we work in a very similar fashion... Of course. Here is an excellent one

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi again, I forgot the links... Le Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:58:17 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org a écrit : --- SNIP http://www.debian.org http://www.fedora-project.org http://www.opensuse.org http://www.claws-mail.org http://www.drupal.org http://www.django.org

[tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Pedro
Hi again Charles Charles-H.Schulz wrote What this thread says -and I took the time not to just look at the thread but at the other areas of the project as well- is that developers listen to user feedback. And that's probably a good thing to do although some people might disagree (cf. Henry

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:04:34 -0800 (PST), Pedro pedl...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi again Charles Charles-H.Schulz wrote What this thread says -and I took the time not to just look at the thread but at the other areas of the project as well- is that developers listen to user feedback.

[tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Pedro
Charles-H.Schulz wrote You have similar polls in supermarkets. But supermarkets are no democracies. Really? Supermarkets make polls for products they do not wish to sell? And they do accept the shopper's decision? I have never seen such a supermarket! Anyway even if the developers aren't

Re: [tdf-discuss] The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread yahoo-pier_andreit
On 08/02/12 10:54, Pedro wrote: Hi all I just read the UX thread/sequence of emails where it was decided that the universal Save icon (in any program, any OS) represented by a floppy disk would be replaced by another icon. I'm shocked that a Discuss topic where 54 messages from many people

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread sophie
Hi Pedro, On 08/02/2012 18:37, Pedro wrote: Charles-H.Schulz wrote You have similar polls in supermarkets. But supermarkets are no democracies. Really? Supermarkets make polls for products they do not wish to sell? And they do accept the shopper's decision? I have never seen such a

[tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Pedro
Sophie Gautier wrote the size of our community makes it very difficult to manage the feedback from our users That is exactly what I said :) I accept that it is difficult to have democracy in such a large community. My argument is that FOSS is not inherently incompatible with democracy,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread sophie
On 08/02/2012 19:41, Pedro wrote: Sophie Gautier wrote the size of our community makes it very difficult to manage the feedback from our users That is exactly what I said :) I accept that it is difficult to have democracy in such a large community. My argument is that FOSS is not inherently

[tdf-discuss] confcall issues gone?

2012-02-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I just wanted to ask all those who participated in today's confcall: Do I assume correctly that the issues are gone? No echoes, no noise, dial-in works? Anyone made a different experience? Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Chairman of the Board at

Re: [tdf-discuss] confcall issues gone?

2012-02-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
It went well for me but Thorsten sounded like he was in a subway ;-) Best, Charles. Le 8 févr. 2012 20:53, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org a écrit : Hello, I just wanted to ask all those who participated in today's confcall: Do I assume correctly that the issues are gone?

Re: [tdf-discuss] confcall issues gone?

2012-02-08 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hello, I just wanted to ask all those who participated in today's confcall: Do I assume correctly that the issues are gone? No echoes, no noise, dial-in works? Worked well for me using skype. -- Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

2012-02-08 Thread Sveinn í Felli
Þann mið 8.feb 2012 18:50, skrifaði sophie: On 08/02/2012 19:41, Pedro wrote: Sophie Gautier wrote the size of our community makes it very difficult to manage the feedback from our users That is exactly what I said :) I accept that it is difficult to have democracy in such a large

Re: [tdf-discuss] confcall issues gone?

2012-02-08 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Em 08-02-2012 17:50, Florian Effenberger escreveu: Hello, I just wanted to ask all those who participated in today's confcall: Do I assume correctly that the issues are gone? No echoes, no noise, dial-in works? Anyone made a different

Re: [tdf-discuss] confcall issues gone?

2012-02-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-02-08 23:15: I*have* to use skype, and it is a sort of lottery, one day is great, the other not so... depends where I pick the broadband, solar flares, tropical weather, and so on:-) what I would recommend is to use either SkypeOut to dial to one of