Re: New Long Term Goal

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 7:04 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On viernes, 8 de marzo de 2019 16:57:42 (CET) Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> Hello Lydia,
>
> > That sounds good! Given that it has implications way beyond promo
>
> Okay, but we are approaching it only from the angle of what Promo can do to
> facilitate this. That is, "selling" KDE to other organisations to convince
> them to join us and then facilitating the communication between those
> organisations and the groups within KDE to make whatever has to happen
> (organise joint sprints, join the Advisory Board, etc.) happen.

Yeah. But isn't it better to get their buy-in before putting in the
work? Imagine for example promo puts work into building a relationship
with a partner, convince them to join the advisory board just to then
be told by the board that isn't going to happen for this partner.

> > it'd
> > be good to take this to the community mailinglist.
>
> Do you think so? Won't it come over as if Promo is dictating what the
> community should do, when it should be the other way around?

I think that's exactly the point. If it should be a community-wide
thing then it probably should go through the goals process? (I'll work
on getting the next round started in the next weeks.)


Cheers
Lydia

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