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[Simon]

Carlo, thanks for this post.

I was thinking about writting a similar one, but since my english
isn't super, you did a much better job.

Just like all of us, I'm looking forward to have a Neo and start
hacking the little thing.  But the Neo is just the start of a long
story of freedom.

Patience is one thing we can all practice meanwhile.
Programming is another!
Working out the documentation is yet another.

On the other hand, I believe it is important as a community to
recognize that impatience exists and that it is normal.  That there is
no reason to flame someone for not having googled, searched the wiki
and mailing list archived before asking a question.  If there is a
nice and easy place to find the info, why not point the guy there,
with a smile. There are hundreds of others who read the mailing list,
they will follow the link and learn.

Good luck!

Simon

On 10/25/07, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido at fluido.as> wrote:
>         Subject: community at lists.openmoko.org
>         Date: mer 24 ott 07 03:48:18 -0600
>
> Quoting Mark (wolfmane at gmail.com):
>
> > You need to keep in mind that:
> >
> > - It takes maybe a couple of minutes at most to fire off a
> > one-paragraph email.
>
> and then it takes untold time and energy to extinguish the fire if the
> promises made in that two-minute, one-paragraph e-mail eventually
> prove to have been too optimist.
>
> here we are not talking about describing the past or present, but
> about foreseeing the future. If you are careful, and make appropriate
> use of past experience, there are good, solid possibilities that your
> forecast may prove true. Two minutes are way too short for this sort
> of exercises.
>
> > - If somebody, anybody, had taken 30 seconds to post a message to the
> > list we wouldn't be having this flood of posts on this topic right
> > now.
>
> No. The flood is caused by lack of patience. An unripe message that
> were to make wild promises may only work as a painkiller.
> Painkillers remove the symptom, but they do not cure the problem.
>
> > - Nobody is asking for an "official", press-release-ready corporate
> > announcement. All we're asking for is something like this:
> >
> > "Sorry, folks, but due to circumstances beyond our control we are not
> > going to be able to make the release at the previously announced time.
> > We are working on the issues and hope to be ready for sale in
> > December."
>
> During the life of this project I have seen several announcements of
> this kind. Coming at the right time.
>
> I prefer not to see messages and to know the energy of the team is
> focused towards having a working hardware as soon as possible, rather
> than to have my impatience quelled by official postponements that have
> no base in real events.
>
> I rest comforted by the facts that a) it is their jobs, not mine, that
> are in relation with a speedy delivery of both openmoko and the neo,
> and b) if, come the worst, no functional phone were to eventually
> surface from this project, well, my old treo still works OK...
>
> The best we can do to help is to provide support and encouragement to
> the hard-working team. And to exercise the subtle art of patience.
>
> Carlo
>
> --
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> * K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido at fluido.as             che bisogno ci sarebbe
>   *               di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)
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