[openbeos] Re: I am back

I apologize for hurting your feelings. I did not intend to at all. I don't care 
how many people
lurk. The more, the merrier. I hope that tons of qualified, interested, 
enthusiastic coders sign
up to help. I look forward to reading your bug reports. :-)


>"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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