David Nielsen wrote:
Den 28. okt. 2008 12.44 skrev Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
We have a FUDCon coming up in January, in Boston where the majority of the Desktop team resides. That would be an ideal location and time for this sort of summit!
I would be a little concerned with relying to heavily on FUDcon for such work, Fedora is a big project, many contributors spread across the globe, many of whom would probably like their voice heard or have ideas they wish to share. A lot of these people will not be able to go and partake in the talks for simple reasons of time and/or money. Most of the time we don't even get good video or audio of all the proceedings afterwards so it's hard to traceback what the rationale for a decision is or to see what other vistas were explored. As such I would be afraid a high reliance on FUDcon for this work would lead to a lack of transparency in our process. I would hate for this to become Moses coming down from the mountain carrying specs set in stone without accompanying notes.
I would rather the vision be developed in an open public way than live solely in the mind of some dictator who optionally (as a "bonus") would actually communicate and work with other community members.
Unfortunately it isn't possible for everyone who wants to participate to be able to go to a physical meeting, but I know for the spins meeting we did at the last FUDcon we were very careful to make sure we took very good notes [1] and blogged about it as well.
Once the story is developed it's easier to tell it and add on to it I think. But developing it is a big step I'm not sure of any better way to get done than a physical brainstorming meeting.
~m