[maemo-community] maemo-community Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Jonas Hurrelmann <j at outpo.st> wrote:
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[snip]
>
> Either a separate blog or just the existing blogs of the council members
> should be used to push important information to the planet, as this is in my
> opinion still the most streamlined way to distribute information as it's
> signal to noise ratio is comparatively high. By using a separate blog it would
> be possible to subscribe to that specific feed only, so I would pretty much
> prefer it this way.

A good idea.

> I would claim that this way things like the election process would have gained
> much more attention in a better time frame, as drafts could be posted and
> reviewed by a larger audience.

I agree with your point, but there were a number of times that there
were blog posts, and threads about the council to try and get people
involved and commenting on the first/second/third/... drafts which
existed at that time:

    http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-June/033767.html
    http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-June/033829.html
    http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-June/000378.html
    http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-August/000644.html
    http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2008-June/033797.html
    http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-August/000648.html

    http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/jaffa/2008/06/04/maemo_org_what_next_part_2
    http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21161
    http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-548593686a1d11dd886655bb60f3a101a101
    http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2ee694186dba11dd9b6cbde14cd502850285
    http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/jaffa/2008/08/26/maemo_org_community_council_elections
    http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/08/community-liaisons-instead-of-community-managers/
    http://blogs.open.collab.net/oncollabnet/2008/08/maemo-community.html

The last two are particularly interesting - these are people *outside*
of the Maemo userbase who have seen us organising ourselves like this
and think it's a great idea (ego_boost++).

Advertising new things is difficult, but I don't think it was a lack
of trying which means people weren't involved. Can you give more
specifics on what actions could've pulled you in to the earlier
discussions?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

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maemo.org Community Council candidate: http://tinyurl.com/election-jaffa