[openbeos] Re: FC07 - Permission to create promotional VMWare image distributed on CD
- From: "DarkWyrm" <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:02:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Seriously, I don't understand why the community is trying to hide the
> project from the rest of the world. That is a horrible way to grow,
> and you're not going to attract new people that way. Wouldn't it be
> better to get new developers interested sooner than later?
>
> Finally, we're talking about a Linux picnic here. These are not "joe
> users" - these are likely to be Linux hard-cores who are much more
> likely have software-development skills. We NEED these people. If
> they
> aren't interested in Haiku, they'll probably just throw the CD away
> anyhow.
I think most of it has come from a desire to hide our "dirty laundry",
but I think that in this case, it's actually not a problem because,
just like you've said, these are geeks we're talking about here.
> Oh well, I guess it was inevitable that once someone started talking
> about distributing pre-relase copies of Haiku, these discussions
> would
> take place. The community has been arguing over this since nearly day
> one.
We're a *lot* less pre-release than before, which helps. ;-)
At this point, we really need to be recruiting lots of different kinds
of people, especially developers. Seeing if we could find an accountant
or a couple of attorneys who are willing to donate their services for
the occasionial need would also help considerably.
--DarkWyrm
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