Re: [OSCOM] Reminder: Public email for OSCOM board

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 07:56:39PM +0200, Steven Noels wrote:
> Pardon my interruption, but I assume this might be one of the issues  
> with OSCOM in its current state: I've been lurking on this list for a  
> while now, and suspect it is tough for newcomers to walk in without  
> assumptions or knowledge of the past. Hence they don't necessarily  
> feel welcome at all - old boys networks and such.

yes, definetly.
on a mailinglist it is not easy to know when someone is new anyways,
and the current state, trying to get a reorganization going is also very
inward focused, and therefore not inviting.

> Also, more than 50% of our core product development has been  funded
> directly by customers: they pay us for doing open source  development.

good model, i like going by that too :-)

> My hunch would thus be that OSCOM should be of major interest for us.  
> Yet, I don't know. [ ... ] 
> It's that we don't "get" what OSCOM could do for us.

yes, we are struggling with the same issue here.
i pointed my partner to oscom, suggesting that, if there is something
that would be of mutual benefit by working with oscom, then now, while the
reorganization happens, would be a good time to get involved, to help
shape oscom into something where oscom and we can benefit. 

> CMPros, yes, I  can figure that one out.

but i can't, what's cmpros? :-)

> So what are our options? Help to make the new OSCOM into something  
> that is useful to our and the community's purposes? 

yes, that sounds like a good idea.

> If so, how do we get in? 

part of the reorganization should be that 'getting in' will be made
easier. at least that is my expectation.

> Will we feel welcome? 

being welcome is a people thing.
whether you feel welcome will mostly depend on how you get along with
the rest of us. 

> Will OSCOM-NG again be Zurich- and  Boston-centric? Who gets to decide
> the overall strategy: members or a  board?

again my expectation is, that it will be member centric and that
members decide the strategy while the board handles the legal issues.

greetings, martin.
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