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I also just completed the survey. :D
So did I! I posted quite the wall of text ;)
I also just completed the survey. :D
Great! Please tell more people about it :)
Basically, I wrote about the need to get representatives per country and also per state of a country, and the need to make the inactive ones more active. There is also need for a global community communication and interaction (but the main challenge is actually the language used, for which the Esperanto language can perhaps solve this issue, since it's easier to learn, and some countries like Brazil have a non-mandatory provision for high school to teach it if the school receives enough demand for it, which I think could be mandatory instead of based on demand).
Also there is the "fork and forget" kind of attitude. It's acceptable to have this kind of attitude when something isn't really in the goals of the original project, but for translations, localized forums and mods, things can stay in the same place. Example: The MinetestBrasil.com community was divided from the Minetest.net community just because a Brazilian Portuguese forum wasn't made there, or because of the language boundaries.
Finally I also wrote about misrepresentations in other countries.
This is actually a really good point. The vacuum they leave in other counties has allowed others to take up the torch and to fill the gap but that is not an excellent solution.
This is actually a really good point. The vacuum they leave in other counties
has allowed others to take up the torch and to fill the gap but that is not
an excellent solution.
Basically, I wrote about the need to get representatives per country and also
per state of a country, and the need to make the inactive ones more active.
There is also need for a global community communication and interaction (but
the main challenge is actually the language used, for which the Esperanto
language can perhaps solve this issue, since it's easier to learn, and some
countries like Brazil have a non-mandatory provision for high school to teach
it if the school receives enough demand for it, which I think could be
mandatory instead of based on demand).
Also there is the "fork and forget" kind of attitude. It's acceptable to have
this kind of attitude when something isn't really in the goals of the
original project, but for translations, localized forums and mods, things can
stay in the same place. Example: The MinetestBrasil.com community was divided
from the Minetest.net community just because a Brazilian Portuguese forum
wasn't made there, or because of the language boundaries.
In this survey I mentioned that I reckon it's important to stop listing Gnash as a "high priority" project. Flash is a slowly dying technology and the resources spent on developing Gnash can be much better used developing other crucial free software like Replicant, Libreboot, etc...
Resource management in software doesn't work like that. This is not a strategy game; if people are interested to work on a specific but less useful project, they will. They won't be productive if you force them to work on what you believe is important.
I completely agree with you that you can't force people to work on other projects. I just wouldn't list Gnash as a high priority project as this probably means the developers are getting some money from the FSF which could be used much better for other projects.
I'm pretty sure the FSF doesn't send money to programmers working on these projects in most cases.
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I'm pretty sure the FSF doesn't send money to programmers working on these
projects in most cases.
I completely agree with you that you can't force people to work on other
projects. I just wouldn't list Gnash as a high priority project as this
probably means the developers are getting some money from the FSF which could
be used much better for other projects.
Resource management in software doesn't work like that. This is not a
strategy game; if people are interested to work on a specific but less useful
project, they will. They won't be productive if you force them to work on
what you believe is important.
I completed it a couple of days ago. Share this with somebody you know.
Completed the survey as well. XD
Done!
Thank you. I just completed the survey.
Great! Please tell more people about it :)
In this survey I mentioned that I reckon it's important to stop listing Gnash
as a "high priority" project. Flash is a slowly dying technology and the
resources spent on developing Gnash can be much better used developing other
crucial free software like Replicant, Libreboot, etc...
I completed it a couple of days ago. Share this with somebody you know.
Completed the survey as well. XD
Done!