Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-20 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Julie MacNaught wrote: Conclusion? Just play nice. Right on! It's amazing how well a bit of humility, encouragement of others, and responding to fire with ice works in online communities - whether technical like this one, or social, or whatever. I'm haunted, though, by

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:56, Brian Behlendorf wrote: I'm not suggesting we rename ourselves the Cute Nice Fluffy Bunnies Software Foundation. ROTFL... From a feared native-american tribe to cuddly... :o) My vote goes for The Bambi Software Foundation or The Kitten Software Foundation

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-20 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 22:32, Julie MacNaught wrote: Hi, [...] I've been accused of being a geek, however, in my defense, I always say: you think I'M a geek, you should meet my friends at Apache.. [...] Wow. Define being normal by pointing at people that are even weirder. I never thought of

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-20 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Julie MacNaught wrote: Conclusion? Just play nice. Right on! It's amazing how well a bit of humility, encouragement of others, and responding to fire with ice works in online communities - whether technical like this one, or social, or whatever.

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-20 Thread Martin van den Bemt
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 04:56, Brian Behlendorf wrote: I'm haunted, though, by whether there's a sort of cognitive dissonance in being nice and the Apache name. I'm not suggesting we rename ourselves the Cute Nice Fluffy Bunnies Software Foundation. :) Just wondering if it's something we

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-19 Thread Bill Stoddard
Henri Yandell wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Julie MacNaught wrote: I am a big corporation's employee (IBM), not an individual contributor. My current pet theory is that due to quotas, Dang, so much for sensitivity and respect... Bill

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-19 Thread Bill Stoddard
Bill Stoddard wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Julie MacNaught wrote: I am a big corporation's employee (IBM), not an individual contributor. My current pet theory is that due to quotas, Dang, so much for sensitivity and respect... Bill Henri, your email could be interpreted