Follow up on Robyn proposal

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 15:04:21 UTC 2013


On 04/29/2013 01:42 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:24:23 -0400,
>   Eric Christensen <sparks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> Quite frankly, all this talk has me thinking that we're trying to run 
>> Fedora like a company.  If we want our product to be X then we have 
>> to allocate people, money, and resources over there.  Well, this 
>> isn't a company and we don't have control over what the people are 
>> going to work on.  We need to let the people do their thing and 
>> support them through education initiatives, making sure that lines of 
>> communication are available, and to make sure we're one big group 
>> that is there to help each other out.
>
> We do have some control over resources. We have money that gets used 
> to fund things like Flock, FUDcons and media. The board can ask people 
> to give higher priority to some tasks relative to others. That doesn't 
> magically make things happen, but can influence where contributors 
> decide to spend their time.

Maybe some control over the resources but not the amount of those 
resources...

JBG


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