On 6/15/06, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote: [snip]
The concern is that perhaps the board is becomming too insular and not really paying attention to the participants on the various Wikimedia projects.
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Can you cite examples?
It is my belief that the board and other people deeply involved in the foundation are currently mismanaging their time by spending far too much of it being concerned with the potential reaction of every random non-productive armchair expert who inevitably crops up to call foul on any possible idea.
It's a lot easier to speculate on what we could and should do than to actually do it... and it's a lot easier to naysay than to act. It's nearly impossible to find a solution to anything complex without at least a few people writing kiloword screeds on the great evil of the solution. We must stop allowing ourselves to be victimized by people whose only skills are complaint and speculation and whose only assets are time and a desire to hear themselves talk.
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Treating the user community as the enemy is going to seriously cause problems in the future if it is not addressed right away. And some recent comments on this mailing list have made me feel like just that.
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Where has the foundation treated the community like the enemy? Which community? Which comments? What could have been done better?