On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 22:01 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote: > David Zeuthen wrote: > > So I think this thread shows we need to figure this out; it's pretty > > clear that the status quo where the combined desktop livecd product is > > everyones responsibility (through maintaining their own packages) means > > that it's no-ones responsibility. We have a lot of low-hanging fruit > > just *waiting* to be picked up (the firewall problem is one such) but > > typically such work requires coordination, education and banner carrying > > across multiple areas both inside and outside the desktop live cd space. > > I'm wondering if it would be useful to hold a Fedora-specific desktop > summit type of meeting to first come up with the Fedora-specific desktop > vision for the desktop livecd product, then to hash out the projects and > their respective work items needed to achieve the vision (or at least a > first phase of it.) Post-meeting, I think you would need at least one if > not more champions for the whole project (I don't like the term > dictator) to keep things moving forward and to motivate the folks > working on tasks in the plan. > > We did something like this for the spins site at the last FUDcon and I > think the meeting was really successful in developing a common shared > vision for where we wanted to project to go. I think we came into the > room having some very different ideas, and walked away from the room in > agreement of where we wanted to be. Although that particular project is > stalled somewhat because there aren't many people working on it at the > moment, because we have that shared vision we do know what we have to do > (it's just an issue of time/manpower atm). [...snip...] 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! -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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