Communication Bridges?

[Toby Smithe]

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Subject: Re: Communication Bridges?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:06:19 +0100
From: Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com>
To: Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
References: <20060911151516.37c8e8a1.peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:57:06 -0700
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> There is an unfortunate communication gap between the forums and other
>> communication channels such as IRC and the mailing lists, and I would like
>> to find a way to address it.  Grieving over this fact doesn't help, but I am
>> always open to hearing *constructive* ideas about how to promote better
>> communication within the project.
>
> I don't have an answer of my own, but I think this is an important issue
> for Ubuntu.

Gentoo have an answer. They recently held votes on the forum for a "User
 Representative" who meets with the devs and explain the users'
feelings. Rather like an MP, of sorts.

> As a tentative first step I have created
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BridgingUbuntu
>
> As a place holder for discussion of communication, and a place to air
> grievances and/or suggest solutions.
>
> There is no bug tracker for internal community communication bugs, as far
> as I know ;-)
>
> This is not directly on topic for -devel of course, but I have sent it in
> answer to Matt's post.
>
> If this is seen as a good idea, I will post to -users and sounder.

And I just posted to the forum:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1487906

> Peter
>

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