On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
On 04/11/2014 09:01 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>
>> ... Therefore, I'd like to appeal
>>
>> to our Friends foundation. I hope we can find a middle ground instead of
>> staking out extreme positions.
>
>
> Coming to the middle, I'd like to suggest what I suggested in yesterday's
> meeting (which was completely ignored).
>
> Gnome could use a menu in the 'All Settings' menu that would allow users
> to add their own links as well as add some predefined links (such as Google
> apps and Facebook). These would be disabled by default but the user could
> easily activate them and include them on their system.
It wasn't ignored. In fact, that was close to what I had suggested too, and
I was (and am) in favor of it. However, it seemed us 2 were the only ones
in favor it, and at least 2 explicitly mentioning being against that (iirc)
I agree it wasn't ignored. Reading back in the logs, however, doesn't
show anyone explicitly against it. There was some discussion on
opt-in vs. opt-out, but the specific suggestion wasn't voted on.
Considering the thing we did vote on is more abstract and broadly
applicable, and this is an implementation detail of the UI, I don't
think it required a Board vote. It's a fine suggestion to pass along
though.
In the spirit of Matthew's post, something that I appealed for in
the
meeting was that each board member try to outline as best the could what
positions they could support as well as those they could not. Given
something like that, one can try to formulate something that has a chance of
getting some semblance of consensus support/approval. Worst case, it would
help identify that there is not any potential to reach a consensus.
The difficulty I have doing this is determining positions on what?
Position on FOSS in general? (that's probably unhelpful) Position on
linking to non-FOSS webapps/web services? Position on opt-in/opt-out
of linking to aforementioned items?
I'd be happy to express a position on something if I knew exactly what
I was expressing a position on. This is why I was hoping we could
vote on the motion Stephen Gallagher presented yesterday, as it
presented a very specific question. However, that vote was cancelled.
josh