| Re: Re: Re: Re: A FOSS Business Model?
Feb 20 2010 on group FOSS Economy |
There doesn't need to be a new group to make the changes, current structures (companies, governments, and other organizations) can be pushed to change. More people just need to participate instead of just being mindless consumers. |
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Feb 13 2010 on group openDesktop.org improvement group |
I agree with other comments about the current structure of these pages being some what clumsy. The first couple of easier to implement suggestions I have are:
Make it easy for individual users to remove/edit there own posts.Eliminate or reduce indentation on replies especially, they become quite squashed very quickly on my screen, and anything else such as descriptions of content. I know wide-screens are popular but they aren't universal yet and there seems to be more than enough wasted space.I know you've heard a lot about improving the voting system.Doing everything possible to make new comments take up less room, such as starting the text even with the profile pictures directly under the post title.More advanced BBCode features (mainly be able to have words represent a link that is not fully typed out)
More complex things would be implementing a much better forum feature (I personally think the Ubuntu forum is very well done with its great ability to make even very large threads digestible with its various view options) and trying to improve speed of the site, it just seems slower than half the web for me.
Thanks for all the hard work in making such a useful website! |
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Feb 13 2010 on poll Best Twitter Client |
+1
But I can see some advantages to site like the opendesktop.org family with the added features that can actually be useful to you computing experience with the bonus of increased communication and awareness of the good things happening in the open source community. Though I certainly have wasted a lot of time here. |
| | | Re: Re: A FOSS Business Model?
Feb 13 2010 on group FOSS Economy |
I really enjoyed reading this conversation. My sort of abstract thought is since we really like the FOSS community but because it is kind of at conflict with the "standard" way products are made in the world's monetary system there is the fear something must be done or we will lose it. The current talk here is trying to preserve the best things about FOSS while alleviating this conflict by making it more like that "standard". I'd propose the opposite, try to move everything else more towards the FOSS model/ideals.
Work towards the elimination of the current tribalism of our world and the profit motive. Everyone working towards the common good because it will basically represent your well being. That sort of goal might sound totally idealistic but with the current advancements of technology and with the FOSS movement as something of a model I think it is becoming closer to realizable (though clearly it would take some time for the culture change to happen). |
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