On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/11/2014 09:01 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> >>> ... Therefore, I'd like to appeal >>> >>> to our Friends foundation. I hope we can find a middle ground instead of >>> staking out extreme positions. >> >> >> Coming to the middle, I'd like to suggest what I suggested in yesterday's >> meeting (which was completely ignored). >> >> Gnome could use a menu in the 'All Settings' menu that would allow users >> to add their own links as well as add some predefined links (such as Google >> apps and Facebook). These would be disabled by default but the user could >> easily activate them and include them on their system. > > > It wasn't ignored. In fact, that was close to what I had suggested too, and > I was (and am) in favor of it. However, it seemed us 2 were the only ones > in favor it, and at least 2 explicitly mentioning being against that (iirc) I agree it wasn't ignored. Reading back in the logs, however, doesn't show anyone explicitly against it. There was some discussion on opt-in vs. opt-out, but the specific suggestion wasn't voted on. Considering the thing we did vote on is more abstract and broadly applicable, and this is an implementation detail of the UI, I don't think it required a Board vote. It's a fine suggestion to pass along though. > In the spirit of Matthew's post, something that I appealed for in the > meeting was that each board member try to outline as best the could what > positions they could support as well as those they could not. Given > something like that, one can try to formulate something that has a chance of > getting some semblance of consensus support/approval. Worst case, it would > help identify that there is not any potential to reach a consensus. The difficulty I have doing this is determining positions on what? Position on FOSS in general? (that's probably unhelpful) Position on linking to non-FOSS webapps/web services? Position on opt-in/opt-out of linking to aforementioned items? I'd be happy to express a position on something if I knew exactly what I was expressing a position on. This is why I was hoping we could vote on the motion Stephen Gallagher presented yesterday, as it presented a very specific question. However, that vote was cancelled. josh _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
