[openbeos] Re: I am back
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:52:20 -0400
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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