If Jolla sailors would spend half the time they spend on kicking people out from IRC, Facebook, email comms and community events, maybe they'd have time to provide some actual information in social media?

http://www.merproject.org/logs/%23jo...05-28T21:16:37

Is Stskeeps really Jolla's Chief Research Engineer and that's how he rolls? Well, I guess we can call that being brutally open at least. No hiding one's views there. Perhaps Jolla has a new theme song: Boten Jolla.

Jolla kan banna, banna dig så hårt.

Seriously, though, the responses in this thread point out very well the kind of lacking openness culture Jolla seems to have. When people have a hard time knowing when they can say something, and thus don't say anything, that keeps feeding itself. If this empty space is then filled simply with feelgood fluff, it will eventually look simply bad, if it seems like real issues are being ignored instead of communicated about. And if the trigger-finger with bans and shuns is too happy, the community will soon be limited to yes-men.

I have a hard time believing NDAs or investors explain it all, nor does lack of time. It seems there is a deliberate decision to keep pretty much all controversial topics very close to vest and to control "the movement" through carefully selected activities, topics and forums, because select topics do get plenty of attention. Nobody here is asking Jolla's team to answer each and every detail and spend their days online, nor to reveal secret business plans (although I guess some changes in comms strategy for the latter could be useful as the community is getting restless, but that's beside my point). None of that is not necessary for meaningfully increased openness.

I'm fairly certain that if the likes of Dillon or Pienimäki really wanted Jolla to be more open about some of the difficult issues, especially now that Jolla still is in the early adopter phase, they could make it happen easily. Equally, I'm sure it is harder for the grunt in the trenches, if that example from the top doesn't exist and people are afraid to open their mouths except to yell "you rock" at others (and themselves). It seems like a leadership decision to not be so open and then the organization follows suit. Maybe this works for Jolla, it is their decision of course, but to me it does seem like a wasted opportunity. Goodwill and useful community participation is being lost.

Eventually that "you rock" starts to sound a little tired and values like "transparency" non-existent if it really just means you use it a lot in your user interface.

Don't ruin this, Jolla. Please.