[Spi-private] Re: Inviting questions from SPI

[Joshua D. Drake]

Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:43:36PM -0400, David Graham wrote:
>> That's a point on the surface, but I don't necessarily see it that way: I
>> am not suggesting that SPI not actively help its projects cooperate or
>> even advocate, only that we do so by the request of our member projects,
>> and not on our own whim. 
> 
> So I guess the way I view this is more that when a member project wants
> to "request" stuff like this, the way that should work is by having some
> of the people in that project get more actively involved in SPI and make
> it happen -- which is pretty much what Joshua's doing.

:)

> 
> As long as that doesn't end up as trying to force other projects to
> be involved in projects when they don't want to -- which is possible,
> but I think easily avoidable if we keep it in mind -- then it's all good.
> 

Well of course we can't force them and there will be projects that are 
only interested in a subset of whatever we offer. I think that is par 
for the course.


> Obviously, YMMV, but free software and grass roots activities and
> promotion in the US really seems like something that could do a lot of
> good to me.

I think so.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> 
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