[impdev] official contact person

[Boy Lane]

Dears,

I think Oz has a valid point here. It is about communication, not how a 
project clicks. It does not matter if you talk about opensource or a matrix 
organization in whatever company. Without defined clear communication 
channels things just don't work. There should be single points of contact 
and defined channels information goes through. For LL Oz is that channel I 
take....

Just my 2 ct as a guest here :).

Boy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)" <oz at lindenlab.com>
To: <impdev at lists.imprudenceviewer.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [impdev] official contact person


> On 2011-11-08 3:31, Morgaine wrote:
>> 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?
>
> No, actually, I don't.   If I have something that needs to be dealt with, 
> I am not interested in sending mail to a list of people who may or may not 
> think that whatever it is is something they personally need to respond to. 
> Nor do I want to have objections raised later that I didn't contact the 
> "right" person, especially since the team itself may not agree on who that 
> is.
>
>> 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.
>
> Neither I nor the rest of Linden Lab cares how the project organizes 
> itself internally or how it makes decisions - use whatever organization or 
> lack of it works.  What we do care about is having clear lines of 
> communication - by which we mean having a single point of contact 
> responsible for the communication; at the Linden Lab end, that's me and I 
> need someone at the Imprudence end.  I don't care if that person is a 
> dictator or a peon, so long as everyone agrees that they are the right 
> person for me to contact on behalf of the project, and that contacting 
> them constitutes contacting the project (so you'd all better trust whoever 
> it is).
>
>
>
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