[openbeos] Re: I am back

"Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Anyway - as far as the concentration of work, we have a vast quantity of 
>lurkers. The list 
is >at 80-85 subscribers. Maybe 10 people actively signed up for anything. I 
planned for 
having >more active participants. As we leave the planning stages, we will need 
to get more 
>commitments or backtrack on what we can do.

I do not see myself as a lurker. I am one of the 70 people that read but do not 
contribute 
actively. Everyone will have his/her personal reasons, for me it is that I do 
not have any time 
because of learning for upcoming exams (biology diploma) and I am not a coder 
so I could 
not contribute because I am simply not able to. I can do "Hello World"  in a 
window, but 
that's it.
But I am interested in how the project develops.

And please see it also in another way: Now that Be, Inc. is practically dead, 
people do not 
know how it will go on. A lot of people have very strong hopes for the OpenBeOS 
project, 
and while they never heard anything from Be, here is the chance to just 
subscribe to a 
mailinglist to keep being informed. We have missed that for a long time. So I 
think it is quite 
normal that there are a lot of interested people. We/you should be happy about 
everybody 
that is still interested. 

Maybe I am a lurker but I do not feel bad about it. If you do not want it the 
way it is now 
you should think about a closed mailing list and weekly newsletters or 
something like that. But 
I cannot see in which way people that just read but do not write in the 
mailinglist could 
disturb. 

Sorry for being a bit emotional but I felt kind of attacked personally so I had 
to defend 
myself :-)

Bye,
Finn

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