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2013-12-03 , 07:26
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#68
Originally Posted by chemist View Post
Hello Stezz and welcome home!

Please don't be a guest, leave some footprints!
Thanks, I have already I guess...

I would be more than happy to give some of your staff moderation rights in the Jolla and SailfishOS specific parts - just drop me an email.

Also shoot ideas about forum structures you'd like to see.
Thanks again

We were discussing possibilities to keep the community together, undeniable truth is that media is talking about Jolla as the N9 and N900 successor. I did not understand why meego forums was needed... most of the "good" stuff happened over here anyways. So is it with sailfish now, it started with news aggregation and now becoming a forumized bugtracker already.
Sure, I am not after breaking anything, I think (as said already) that this is a nice place to be and talk to anyone who is interested in Jolla and other things. Who is not interested in the other things might want to popup on a different forum which might be more Jolla specific.

This community is willing to grow in your direction with all it takes to become "official" BUT will never forget about their past. We have been abandoned twice (feels like twice!) and we are still here, even growing.
I know that you won't forget the past (me neither, without my past I wouldn't be who I am in the future) and one side that makes me happy and on the other side it scares me. Sometimes we need to move on, not to forget and somehow I feel that "staying" here would not help to move on.

In lots of posts (Zogg, joerg, ...) I felt like there is a gigantic assumption, that this is the only place and the only community that could ever exist around OSSO/Maemo/MeeGo/Mer/Nemo/Sailfish.

There are many kinds of communities and each of them is intersecting with many others.

What keeps communities together is an idea, a dream, a concrete piece of something, a will to do something new or different (or just keeping doing things exactly the same).

I am open to different kinds of communities that don't exclude each other but rather have plenty of points of contacts and intersection.

Certainly Jolla/Sailfish community has and will have plenty of those with this still I feel that there will be also other kind of people (that don't know it yet).

When I hear that it is impossible to build (or to let build itself) another community around another idea I hear the same thing that I heard when I was told that it is impossible to make a smartphone with 80 guys and girls. "It's just impossible" "You are going to fail" "It will never ever work" are things that I don't understand. "It's difficult" "It's going to take time" "It's going to be painful" "You will lose you hair" Are things I understand better and I can cope with.

Then of course I might be completely wrong as I have been many times and I will take that as a lesson for the future. But I might also be somehow right (or close to that) and we will need just some adjustments as we go.

There are not a lot of things that are impossible when there is passion and belief in some idea and Jolla is an example of that.


Don't hesitate to contact the community council for ideas and options.
I think the best way to do this is in the open.

Stezz
 

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