There’s nothing radical whatsoever about having a fake open call for residents to “participate”. No thousands or even tens will come. Only the same groupies come, because only those groupies will jump through the hoops and fit through the sieves that that these nouveau totalitarians cook up.

A case in point is the outrageous creation of a brand-new JIRA just the other day by the cutesie “Snowstorm Dev Team” — a collectivized non-individual account now storming the JIRA. The JIRA is about the long-noted problem of non-detachable menus from that awful sidebar thing. Back in *February* a resident posted a JIRA and got 120 votes *for the same thing*. That’s ignored, and an entirely new JIRA with the identical wish list is created. A resident puts in a note that this is a “duplicate” — but of course it doesn’t matter. Votes, discussions — these are all irrelevant to the Snowplow. Instead, fake “user stories” are put up by not the users, but the software makers based on dumbed-down and denatured user proposals.

The goal is to disempower and tame the user or wear them out by attrition.

Seriously though, what I find to be the worst about this appeal for help is that the Lindens think of us as stakeholders when they need our labor but not when making the most important decisions about policy and strategy. I have personally come to accept the latter but then calling us stakeholders is just manipulative.

In Oz’s defense, what he’s actually trying to do is tell people how, as a matter of fact, they can be most effective in getting ideas directly to the dev team, in a way that’s most likely to get adopted.

In most companies, no one would have any hope of doing that at all, and the only way to express ideas or opinions would be to waft notes out toward the CEO’s office or something and never hear anything back (for ideas) and to either remain a customer or not (for opinions).

Oz does tend, though, to be a bit derisive (is that the word I’m looking for?) toward things that customers might do wrt the dev team that *aren’t* the most effective possible ones.

I’m fascinated by the idea of letting any of the thousands of Resis who might feel like coming, attend actual developer work sessions. It’s weird and radical, and I love it…

sorry. but its funny…

@Prok, I take back all I’ve thought about you, I see you in another light. Your a “reality check” to us all. Don’t stop, please

On the subject of Philip and this whole SCRUM/SL Viewer thing:

My understanding is most GOOD software apps. that are Open Sourced, were built from the GROUND up. Exposing the source code as LL did some time ago, allowed innovation of the Viewer experience and there are various great viewers out there. Maybe WE might to well in opening a development of the SL Viewer or say Open Sim viewer at SourceForge as a full fledged TRUE development community and not this “cultic” approach.

For the first time.. I’m not feeling the LOVE (that’s been so supposedly present from the past of SL (in the way of Phillips original reason for the idea of virtual worlds. I’m feeling manipulated, coerced, and almost brain washed!

Luckily, most of us OUT here, have a level head and see the light before it consumed us.

Don’t stop eveyone!! Trust includes with it.. or pre-disposed along with Betrayal. Well, I think we know what’s present now.

Gary