[maemo-community] A rant on 25th-hour hysterics...

[From: Eric Warnke]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Eric Warnke <ericew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> Maybe I would have been more active in maemo.org or karma had I been
>> on this list, but as I believe I have stated in the past... I hate
>> email lists.  I don't have another 4 hours a week to dedicate to
>> reading and responding to another listserv.
>
> Nothing personal, but one is forced to wonder if you could've been a
> productive member of the council if (say) there were no restrictions
> on who could stand, if you've not had the time - nor felt it necessary
> - to subscribe to maemo-(developers|users|community).
>
> The point of a council member is to represent the views of the
> community - if one isn't involved in the main, primary mechanisms of
> communication within that community; how can one represent it?

To play devils advocate there are differing ways of participating with
the community, this list is only one subset of those users.  In fact I
would argue there are more "participating" members of iTT than this
listserv.

-Eric