<html><head></head><body>Thank you, this is done excellently!<br>
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Olaf<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 18. Mai 2016 23:43:12 MESZ, schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Dienstag, 17. Mai 2016 22:06:30 CEST you wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Alex,<br /> thank you for reminding me of the email I had been wanting to write today:<br /> To be honest, I don't think the reach of this mailing list is the problem.<br /> I've heard from quite a few people who have been following this<br /> discussion,<br /> but have not participated in it (for various reasons).<br /> Therefore, I changed plans. Instead of trying to get more people to<br /> participate in the discussion here, I will do what I'm trained to do: I'll<br /> conduct a survey.<br /> <br /> I think we've already come quite far with the draft and I don't think we<br /> need much more open discussion. We have a quite good draft, but in several<br /> points, we
have your personal opinion against my personal opinion, and now<br /> I think the next step whould be to find out what the majority (especially<br /> the "silent majority") thinks.<br /> <br /> Tomorrow I will try to identify the points which are still contested (and<br /> I'm happy for you or others to contribute to that as well) and put them in<br /> a survey (along with those on which we agree, just to make sure the<br /> majority agrees with us as well) which I will spread via the Dot, this<br /> list, the ev- membership list and maybe kde-devel just to be sure.<br /> <br /> This survey will also invite people to join the mailing list discussion,<br /> but will primarily aim to just get numbers on those issues where we don't<br /> know what the majority thinks.<br /> <br /> While I'm confident that we have found a Vision which everybody agrees to,<br /> I feel that for some points of the Mission, we'll have to go with a<br /> majority vote, because there are competing
standpoints which are both<br /> valid but cannot really be harmonized. On the other hand, I do not think<br /> the standpoints are so far apart that those who prefer the minority<br /> position would not be able to identify with the Mission as a whole<br /> anymore if we adopted the majority position.<br /> <br /> So, unless there are strong arguments against this approach, this is what<br /> I<br /> will do.<br /></blockquote> <br /> Sounds good, I'm happy to help.<br /></blockquote><br />I have created a survey draft at<br /><a href="http://survey.kde.org/index.php/858172/lang-en">http://survey.kde.org/index.php/858172/lang-en</a><br /><br />Now please everybody click through it and give feedback on anything that you <br />think should be changed.<br /><br />Once it feels like we agree on the survey, I'll publish it on the Dot and on <br />the kde-community and kde-devel mailing lists, hoping to reach most KDE <br />contributors and interested users.<br /><br />Thank you in
advance for your feedback,<br />Thomas<br /><br /><hr /><br />kde-community mailing list<br />kde-community@kde.org<br /><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community</a></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>