Introduction: new community guy, and some discussion

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:01:27PM -0500, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, everyone. :)
> 
> This is going to get a little long, I tend to ramble, apologies for that
> in advance. So let me put the important stuff up front, so the busy ones
> among you can skip the stuff down the bottom :)

Thank you for introducing yourself.  (Pardon the massive snips, but as
you said, it's a long email.)  :)

> 
> I think being remote is really great for things like this, because I
> don't get internal shortcuts. I can't just wander over to someone's
> cubicle, I can't walk down the hall and grab the coder and get a fix. I
> try intentionally to do absolutely as much stuff as possible out in
> public - on mailing lists, IRC channels, even through my blog or forums,

While some may disagree, making an appearance on the forums would
probably be the best way to see what the community (vs. the developers)
think about things.  Many times, decisions are made that aggravate (or
break things) for many users.  

It might even be worth sending a PM to one of the Admins of the forum,
explaining who you are.  I think that many Fedora users simply feel the
developers are out of touch with the user base, be that home desktop
user, sysadmin using Fedora because their job involves RH or CentOS, or
developer (who is not associated with Fedora.)

Welcome to Fedora.  It's a lot of fun, actually. 

(I'm not any sort of official Fedora person, simply another user, though
I am a Community Manager on the forums--but that means nothing as far as
technical ability, simply that I can be diplomatic at times.)


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Scott Robbins
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