[volunteers] On hamburgers

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Heather Stern (star at starshine.org):

> Tne problem isn't who owns what or whether some things can even be owned.

Actually, that _is_ a problem, regardless of how well intentioned the
takeover was -- and your denying it exists or that change even happened
(which wasn't really smart, Heather, nor convincing) doesn't change that
fact.  Shutting everyone but a small closed circle out of picnic
governance and then claiming to have changed nothing is a poor recipe
for attracting outside help.  

I'm hardly the only person to notice and try to warn about that.  Henry
House did, too, and Alvin Oga.  But the only response has been careful
non-response in front of other, followed by telling us in private that
we're simply mistaken and that nothing's changed.

> The problem is isolationism....

True.

Unfortunately, you would not be talking about Sbay's making key
decisions entirely on its own about what used to be the Linux
community's picnic, and keeping even Sbay's so-called "public" discussion
forum for it as a tightly controlled private ghetto.  No, you're
apparently talking about the resulting lack of enthusiasm elsewhere for
furnishing volunteer help.

The irony may some day become evident, but apparently not today.