On 10/08/2013 07:00 AM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:

Hi Johann,
you use the word *the community* in your emails a lot, but I don't see many others supporting your opinion,

Hi Jiri

There are other ways to than being visible to show support and sometimes it's not the best strategy to do so.

When dealing with an overwhelming entity like fortune 500 company you have to be organized mobilized and smart when engaging it to ensuring for example if it manage to silences one voice there is another voice to replace it in the community it but I dont see many outside Red Hat employee contributing to this thread either many of those just want to find a mutual path to solve this ( which ofcourse can be found ).

People are supporting me plenty privately ( if that's what you are wondering ) even asking why I left the big elephant out of this discussion as in one of more real conflict between Fedora's growth and Red Hat's goals being money ( as in the project funds ) with several suggestion how to collect money to fund various for and in the project ( which this thread is not about ).

But before community members start popping up various crowd funding projects to help the aspect of the project that they think are being left out by Red Hat ( by funding or resources ) or find more sponsor or other ways to sponsor it ( manpower hosting what not ), we need to be able to ensure that the various work flows,policy's and other bits can handle a single sponsor and does so well.

JBG