Re: Application letter
Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.events |
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| 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/ _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.