Subject: Re: Special GNOME event in California next week
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general
Date: 2007-04-13 18:43:05 GMT (2 years, 11 weeks, 6 days, 9 hours and 53 minutes ago)
<quote who="Jonathon Jongsma"> > There may be legitimate reasons for some degree of secrecy, but there is > no information for us as foundation members to judge for ourselves whether > that secrecy is warranted. It essentially all boils down to: "trust us, > we're good people". I thought I provided some pretty good information for you to judge whether secrecy is warranted, particularly the examples related to employment and commercial-in-confidence issues. To me, they obviously require sensitivity, which provides clear rationale for some forms of secrecy. > At a minimum, after things like this become public, I hope the board will > consider preparing a summary for foundation members detailing exactly why > it was considered necessary to keep things secret from the membership. I can do that now: We'd like to exploit the promotional potential of this announcement for the betterment of the GNOME community and the commercial ecosystem around it. It is, in effect, a public secret -- the Board knows, the Advisory Board knows, a particular subset of the community knows (and have been participating for ~9 months) and heaps of people in the broader community know about it but just don't know that's what we're announcing. - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ make: *** No rule to make target `whoopee'. Stop.