On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@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