Summary: This thread is basically about what form of business morality DNN core management will choose to follow. I am just an average DNN user concerned by recent actions and statements from the core team managment. I am asking if other users in the DNN community, or anybody, have comments to share. (Please note that I am wrong in initially asking if names are in order below, and actually would like to keep this about business practices and not individuals.)
Where is the discussion and comments on the DNN 2007 Organizational Changes - ie. requesting former core team members to "retire voluntarily"
Yes, I have read the blogs here and I an NOT happy at all at the way DNN corp is going in regards to asking former core team members to keep quiet about this matter. Or even more wrong, to lie about it and make it look like "they chose" to resign. Is this not an open community? What's next? Hiding more discussions and not telling the truth about charging everyone for DNN 5? Announce that after the fact?
Shame on you for blaming it on the need "to distinguish between contributions which require privileged access to resources and channels from those that do not." And then never explaining "the need" at all. Who's need is it? Mine? Yours? Some mystery club? Where is that discussion? Where is the reason Jan 2007 was chosen? What happened in Dec and Nov and so on? Why annouce such a big change after the fact? Send the letters, then annouce the fact. Why not ask if we in the community wanted you to send those letters? Show us a letter. Name the names, and name the reasons. We are adults here and we will express our respect as we choose, not as someone else chooses for us. We will tell you if Jack or Jill is helping us. You are not even giving us a chance to speak. Why is that?
DNN would be nothing without the people that use it. And without the people that built it, even if it was a tiny role, a small conttribution in your tally. That was your point of view. You forgot about us for a minute. You got caught up in some power trip with the corp formation, the popularity of DNN, money, investors, business plans, future expansion, whatever. You forgot about your heart and why there even is a DNN in the first place. You forgot about who really matters. If you play god and try to distinguish between the value of one person over another, you will lose us. Little by little, each time you do something like this, you take a little bit away from the DNN community which started it all.