[ros-dev] Monthly meeting - April 2012

[Emanuel Rietveld]

On 04/27/2012 01:20 PM, Aleksey Bragin wrote:
> Let's put it a little bit less offending to the general public.
>
> Those meetings are of primary interest only for the actual team of
> people which works on ReactOS now (so-called members). We try to define
> a common work direction for the next month and see what was successful
> and what failed during the last month.
> It's just meaningless to invite everyone there.
>
> Nevertheless, we do our best, and provide meetings minutes to anyone, so
> there are no secrets.
>
> And to conclude my diplomacy with something harsh ;)
> If a project is open source and free, it doesn't mean that everyone
> magically acquires rights to demand something from such a project. Free
> open source project grants you other, maybe even more important rights
> though.
>
> Best regards,
> Aleksey.
>
>

I realize the tone I wrote might have been offensive and I'm sorry. 
Please don't take it the wrong way - I don't want to demand anything 
from this project.

My thinking was, ReactOS might benefit from having more contributors, 
and I think having private meetings is one of the things that really 
hurts the ability of new people to come join in.

To be an attractive project for new contributors takes a lot effort, but 
it pays off when you can get more manpower behind your vision.