[Mageia-discuss] Mageia's objectives and foundations

Fri Sep 24 19:25:22 CEST 2010

> Well, it's not even a week now since the start. The founding group is
+> putting together the board, it is working on the charta and statutes,
+> it is working on the legal putting together of the organisation. That
+> is their task at the moment.
+>
+> Anne gave as much information as necessary to inform everybody about
+> the main causes and directions and she informed about the current work
+> the founding group is working on. She also informed about the
+> different sections, the planned structure as far as it is planned by
+> now. Others are also giving informations and are communicating.
+>
+> If the members of this founding group would be listed somewhere
+> everybody would send mails to them, no matter how many mailing lists
+> there are or how many men-in-the-middle, because everybody would think
+> his question/remark is wo important to be brought to the top people
+> driectly.
+>
+> Result: they would either have to stop their work on the important
+> points and spend their time answering mails. Or they would have to
+> ignore the mails and carry on with their work. Both is not good.
+>
+> The chaotic situation we have here in some areas was to be expected.
+> You can not expect a common discipline in an open environment like
+> this in a situation where the basic rules of discipline and structure
+> are just in the making.
+>
+> There's nothing you can do now except let the storm go on until these
+> structures ar ein place and working, which is coming soon, also
+> communicated by Anne just one day ago.
+>
+> wobo
+
+Thanks for the answer. Then answers and replies from both sides 
+community and core group should show a little more patience and 
+constrant. It is just as frustrating to be told "As said several times 
+during these discussions: Yes they are." Some of the people are new to 
+the list and have not seen your message. There are also, as usual, a 
+group of mailist lurkers who read and do not respond to the mailist 
+threads.
+
+As an example many of us are still unclear as to if you are part of the 
+core group as you seem to have the inside knowledge of the goings on.
+
+There is the problem. There is nothing wrong with establishing a clearer 
+information protocol. Letting people know who the core organisers are is 
+less harmful than letting people wonder who is running the organizing. 
+Communication will never kill the project. Lack of communication ... 
+well ... we all remember Mandriva.
+
+Being mailed directly is par for the course. Less impact if there was a 
+regular official Mageia rep. on the list to update the community that it 
+is trying to foster.
+
+Marc
+
+