Re: Application letter

Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Organization KDE
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 23 May 2011 23:16:17 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Friday 22 April 2011 14:19:25 Thomas Thym wrote:
> > Hi Lukas,
> 
> > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 01:48:07 wrote Lukas:
> <snip>
> 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Lukas
> > 
> > For starting contributions that matters to the community, I can underline
> > what Jos wrote.
> 
> As thomas said, the clue is simple: we work in teams. This team does maybe
> the approximate amount of 1, maybe 2 full-time people. Any planning tool
> is nothing but overhead, sorry.
> 
> Frankly, half what is done here is overhead: keeping up to date with what
> is going on, argueing, discussing. Much of that is needed, much of it is
> simply too much. For example, any mail with more than 10 lines is
> frequently best qualified as "a waste of time". I usually skip them.

Like this one? ;-)

> Seriously. Talk gets you nowhere. Doing a simple article about KDE is far
> more effective than any planning or talking ever can be, simply because
> things almost always STOP at planning. If that article gets you 2 people
> helping out with something, dude, that is MAJOR. Really.
> 
> So if you want to make a difference, I suggest to DO it ;-)

To be fair, Lukas is (e.g. the little survey he set up, results coming I 
believe). It's a good point though, if you want to do something and can, then 
just do it.
 
> Then, if you want to talk strategy, come to a meeting. Doing it over mail
> doesn't work.

And this too - we had a few interesting chats at the promo sprint about things 
it might be nice to do in an ideal world

Going back to the point of project management software, I guess it's something 
we can go back to when there are enough of us with time to actually do some 
project management ;-)

Cheers,
Stu

-- 
Stuart Jarvis
KDE Marketing Working Group, Promotion Team and KDE.News

Experience Freedom with KDE
http://www.kde.org/
 
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