Hi all! I've learned about http://teachingopensource.org/ today and here's my introduction E-mail to the list. Perhaps some Perl advocates would like to join this effort.
Regards, Shlomi Fish ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [TOS] Introducing Myself (= Shlomi Fish) and My Intentions Date: Friday 02 Apr 2010, 21:01:40 From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> To: t...@teachingopensource.org Hi all! My name is Shlomi Fish and I'm a user, developer (well-versed in programming) and advocate of open source software, and a writer of code, essays, articles, presentations, and fiction. You can learn more about me and read the stuff I prepared on my home site: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Today in a spark of inspiration I decided to work on an effort to help beginners to the FOSS world in general, as I already had a site like that specifically for Perl 5 - http://perl-begin.org/ . I set up http://foss-begin.wikia.com/wiki/The_FOSS_Beginners_Wiki , but then after searching for "open source mentors" on Google ended up on your wiki and realised we share the same goals. So I decided to join you instead of creating my own effort. I had been kicked out from my share of mailing lists for saying the wrong things, so I'd rather not say too much of my personal thoughts of how to introduce newcomers to Linux at that point (philosophy is dangerous - Socrates got killed for saying the wrong things, that people did not like hearing). Regardless, I'd like to say that whatever I say or whatever you think I may imply, my intentions are good and honest. I'm a good guy - just one who happens to suffer from some bad personality traits (which I'm trying to work on, but still has not got rid of completely). I'll elaborate more on my thoughts at a later stage in individual, topical emails and try to work on some of my intentions on the wiki. Keep up the good work, and I hope I can prove of good use to your noble effort. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ tos mailing list t...@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos ----------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .