[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Hangouts

[Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>]

On 26/06/2013 01:09, Egg Plant wrote:
> According to Pavlos Ratis proposal, it will be another channel of communication. I am not protesting to setup an unofficial channel there.
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> I am fearing that it will gradually become an avenue for talent show, similar to other binary distros. That is why I am against to make it official channel.
What makes it official or not? Does it make any practical difference?

> Video is more attractive than Text or still photo.
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> Several developers, who can afford the resources, will gradually shift their communication to that channel. It's somewhat cyclic dependency or chain reaction. It will just increase our workload (of gentoo development awareness). More fragmentation & distraction as well as other technical problems mentioned by others & me.
Perhaps some will. Does that matter? There is already plenty of 
"fragmentation" - we have over 70 IRC channels and 60 mailing lists, not 
to mention blogs, wikis, overlays and countless other methods of 
development and communication.

As Rich said, everyone has their favourite medium and every medium is 
not suitable for every person.

> I don't want any unnecessary attention from some Computer Science students (unable to get a job at Microsoft or Apple!   sorry, I don't like to be that hard) to show their talent and gift me with another unstable, unreliable, expectation only, useless distro.
I am not sure what this has to do with hangouts.

> Change is good, only if it improves our life. For colourfull life there are other things one can play with.
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> The resourcefull developers/users can meet each other at Gentoo Miniconf and similar other gatherings in real world. That will make us more human.
Again, Rich was spot on here. A quick search of reveals that it would 
have taken me approximately 30-40 hours in transit and $4,000-$6,000 in 
flights alone to have attended the Miniconf.

> [P.S.: request you to read my first mail once again, I am not totally against this type of activity. Everything has it's place & time.]
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> I'm yet a learner, warn me if I'm doing any wrong... [|:-)
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Best regards,
Michael