[impdev] official contact person (was: Re: Are we able to redistribute recompiled imprudence-bin.exe?)

[Morgaine]

That may well be.  :-)

But it's nobody's business to tell open source teams how they should be
organized other than the team members themselves.  That applies universally
across open source.


Morgaine.


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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Nicky Perian <nickyperian at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Rant:
> I have never seen a two dimensional matrix organization actually succeed
> in the long run. Usually, someone rises above the noise and becomes a focal
> point for both management and team members. Or a team leader is selected or
> team leader is a rotating task and there are usually perks included to have
> someone take care of the whiners and not have management attention
> diverted.
> Feeling better now.
>
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> *From:* Morgaine <morgaine.dinova at googlemail.com>
> *To:* "impdev at lists.imprudenceviewer.org" <
> impdev at lists.imprudenceviewer.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 8, 2011 2:31 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [impdev] official contact person (was: Re: Are we able to
> redistribute recompiled imprudence-bin.exe?)
>
> It's an open source project, a viewer developed by an open source team,
> not by one controlling person.  Why would any one person need to be
> nominated as special, and made the burden of contact and responsibility?
>
> Should "any issue need to be addressed", it seems to me that it would be
> very reasonable to address the issue to the team, don't you think?
>
> You know how open source works, Oz.  As the representative of open source
> within the Lab, perhaps you can explain it to those people who don't
> understand it internally and are trying to impose inappropriate
> hierarchical structure on third parties.
>
>
> Morgaine.
>
>
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>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <
> oz at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 12:59, "Borun (a.k.a. Boroondas Gupte)" <
> borun at kokuaviewer.org> wrote:
>
> What kind of contact person do you need? Technical, legal, administrative,
> other? And have we appointed such a contact person in the past (I see
> Jacek's still listed on our TPVd entry<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory/Imprudence>.)
> or has that position been vacant forever?
>
>
> All of the above.  I need the person I (as Linden Lab) can contact when
> there is any issue that needs to be addressed.
>
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