Workstation WG membership

IIRC the WG was going to meet today and might be having a vote on new members. I think both people under consideration, Allan and Rex, are qualified and would be effective contributors. However, I'd like to see Rex be part of the official WG effort, and here's why. I'm strongly supportive of the effort to make a polished GNOME-based workstation. At the same time, I'd like for this effort not to be perceived either as a monoculture, or disinterested in input from the community at large. Having the WG entirely made up of Red Hat associates makes that difficult. We have numerous participants from the GNOME upstream and Red Hat desktop team involved in Workstation. That's not just helpful but important, and I believe the effort is clearly on the right path. Rex has a long history of positive, constructive collaboration with people across Fedora. I'm confident he'd make substantial contributions in the group. At the same time, I don't think making Rex part of the group needs to limit input from contributors such as Allan, who clearly has critical input to offer for design and cohesion in the Workstation. I'm also confident other WG members can reflect that input effectively. It would also be useful to have close, regular input on opportunities for freedesktop.org and other unifying systems that we can consider while increasing workstation polish. I believe Rex's experience in KDE would be helpful in that regard, and needn't change or dilute the focus on a vastly improved Fedora Workstation. Again, none of this is intended to reflect anyone's relative value as a Fedora contributor. My only intention is to ensure we stay welcoming and responsive to a diverse participant base, while not diluting our goal of a polished, coherent, GNOME-based offering. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com