Comments on: Open and Closed - The Death of Community http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/ Change is the only constant... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:35:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: How to Build an Open Source Community http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44639 How to Build an Open Source Community Wed, 21 May 2008 09:36:57 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44639 [...] recently spoke about Open Designs and my disappointment that it was struggling to make much progress in becoming all that it promised to be when it was [...] [...] recently spoke about Open Designs and my disappointment that it was struggling to make much progress in becoming all that it promised to be when it was [...]

]]> By: Ainslie http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44559 Ainslie Fri, 16 May 2008 16:15:33 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44559 Hi Stan, You may have done but then maybe it would get pulled by the Admins! [Edit] Yes there was a post there at: <a href="http://www.opendesigns.org/forum/discussion/2080/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/" rel="nofollow">http://www.opendesigns.org/forum/discussion/2080/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/</a> but it looks like it got deleted fairly quickly. It must have been deleted by an Admin or I would be able to see it as a Moderator. I'm not really surprised. I get the feeling that my comments and concerns about the community are not welcome to some folk. Go figure! Now we can add censorship to the list of talents on the OD site. ;-) Hi Stan,

You may have done but then maybe it would get pulled by the Admins!

[Edit] Yes there was a post there at: http://www.opendesigns.org/forum/discussion/2080/open-and-closed-the-d eath-of-community/ but it looks like it got deleted fairly quickly. It must have been deleted by an Admin or I would be able to see it as a Moderator.

I’m not really surprised. I get the feeling that my comments and concerns about the community are not welcome to some folk. Go figure!

Now we can add censorship to the list of talents on the OD site. ;-)

]]> By: stan http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44540 stan Fri, 16 May 2008 00:04:43 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44540 was i seeing things or didn't i see a link to this post at opendesigns by pete? was i seeing things or didn’t i see a link to this post at opendesigns by pete?

]]> By: Ainslie http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44488 Ainslie Tue, 13 May 2008 20:44:20 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44488 Hi Pete, Sean is a good guy but he seems to be the only one who is regularly posting in the forum. I was hopeful that there might have been some progress but it seems to have died off again :-( Hi Pete,

Sean is a good guy but he seems to be the only one who is regularly posting in the forum.

I was hopeful that there might have been some progress but it seems to have died off again :-(

]]> By: perthmetro http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44483 perthmetro Tue, 13 May 2008 16:38:14 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2008/04/26/open-and-closed-the-death-of-community/#comment-44483 OpenDesigns isn't going to the dogs quite yet. There's no doubt there was, has and is a distinct lack of response by the admins to varying degrees. Sean, one of the admins has been brave enough to front up to the cries for action and is doing things, good things. The community is now in discussion about having elections to vote in new admins, hopefully this will happen in the near future. I welcome you to join in. There is no doubt the 'community' is concerned about the power base that exists without enough accountability in place - hopefully the elections will help address that and even more so a new/revised 'constitution' is long overdue. I hope that the money isn't the reason, i doubt it is. I couldn't see these admins taking any of the money - but, there needs to be a drastic improvement in accounting for the money to prevent this ever being able to be an issue and blog topic for that matter. Regards, Pete aka perthmetro OpenDesigns isn’t going to the dogs quite yet.

There’s no doubt there was, has and is a distinct lack of response by the admins to varying degrees. Sean, one of the admins has been brave enough to front up to the cries for action and is doing things, good things.

The community is now in discussion about having elections to vote in new admins, hopefully this will happen in the near future. I welcome you to join in.

There is no doubt the ‘community’ is concerned about the power base that exists without enough accountability in place - hopefully the elections will help address that and even more so a new/revised ‘constitution’ is long overdue.

I hope that the money isn’t the reason, i doubt it is. I couldn’t see these admins taking any of the money - but, there needs to be a drastic improvement in accounting for the money to prevent this ever being able to be an issue and blog topic for that matter.

Regards,

Pete aka perthmetro

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