On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brad since you work for the for the foundation and
seem to have a lot of
expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal
supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over
video conferencing or similar to understand the problems being hit and
helped them work through them? Email doesn't seem to have been an effective
method of communication in this situation as you have pointed out. Maybe
you can help with documenting these issues and helping people like yourself
understand the problems and why this change was reverted?
As Brad's manager, I think it's fine to invite Brad to a meeting if you
believe that the mailing list won't work for the conversation you'd like to
have. However, I object to putting the responsibility for initiating a
video conversation on him. As Brian Wolff mentioned earlier in the font
thread, a public mailing list is a perfectly fine place to bring this sort
of thing up, since sooner or later, this issue would have found its way to
this mailing list anyway.
For what it's worth, I think I can represent Brad's viewpoint pretty well,
so if anyone wants to discuss this with me in the office, I'm happy to
oblige.
Rob