[ros-dev] Monthly meeting - April 2012

[Aleksey Bragin]

On 27.04.2012 15:57, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
> 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.
It's fine, nevermind, as long as there is a constructive discussion, 
it's good.

What I, and probably others, wanted to say is that those meetings are 
totally not a way to attract more contributors. They are strictly a way 
to work with existing contributors. New people are always welcome to our 
IRC channels, mailing lists, web portal with forums and wiki, there is 
no need for some event.

Best regards,
Aleksey.