Lessons Learned

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 19:26:15 Josh Boyer wrote:
> And to be honest, I feel it puts the people that are paid to work on
> Fedora in an unfair position.  They are tasked with getting things done
> in Fedora _and_ making sure the community is involved.  And at times
> involving the community slows things down simply because the volunteers
> aren't available during the day.  So now you have the interesting
> situation where the paid Doers can literally accomplish more than the
> rest of the group and therefore in a meritocracy they have an advantage
> of being more valuable.
>
> As I said earlier, I personally have no issues at the moment.  It's just
> something we should keep in our minds while we move forward in our brave
> new world.

I agree a LOT.  I was very concerned how my taking a job at Red Hat to become 
a paid Doer would effect my ability to lead in the community.  It's very easy 
to get stuff done when you're paid to do it, and I agree 100% that it puts us 
paid shills in an unfair light.  This is why I have such respect for those 
that are able to accomplish great amounts of work all on personal or borrowed 
company time.  I think we should recognize those that do this from time to 
time in some meaningful way.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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