Thanks Marco :  )
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*Daniel Dias dos Santos*
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Em sex., 26 de jun. de 2020 às 18:01, Marco Ferreira <
marcoantoniobferre...@gmail.com> escreveu:

> Amazing Daniel! Congratulations, you deserve it!
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 19:47, David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear community,
> >
> > Please share your thanks to Daniel Dias Dos Santos who has been invited
> by
> > the TomEE PMC as a committer!
> >
> > Thank you, Daniel, for all you've given the project with your many many
> > PRs.  You are indeed a big force behind our translation efforts.
> >
> > Much more than that, thank you so much for all your effort helping to
> > enable others to contribute to the project.  It's a rare thing.
> >
> > Many people new on an open source project limit their participation.  If
> > someone asks a question, they think, "Someone who knows more should
> > probably answer that."  If someone asks how they can help, they think,
> > "Someone with more authority should probably answer that." If someone
> > submits a PR, they think, "Someone with more experience/commit should
> > probably review that."
> >
> > Reject that line of thinking.  It doesn't help you or the project.
> >
> > The people you view as more capable and with more authority view
> > themselves as servants.  Servants that are just doing the best they can.
> > You don't need permission or authority to be a servant.  When you show
> > willingness and bravery to help others an also be a servant, you quickly
> > become one of their favorite people.
> >
> > The trick; it's not about your ability to help, it's about the person who
> > needs help.  Focus on them, not on you.
> >
> > It's not "do I know everything about x", it's "do I know anything about x
> > that can help this person."  If there's any small thing you can do to
> help
> > them, do it.  If you see they are not getting a response, then you have a
> > wide open range of ways to help them; basically anything that isn't
> > silence.  Even a simple, "I'm new here too, but happy to team up and
> learn
> > together.  I can't figure out x, do you have any ideas?"
> >
> > Thank you, Daniel, for having the bravery to help so many on the project.
> >
> > You are now going to cross a magical line were people are going to look
> at
> > you and think, "we sure, he can help/do/contribute like that because
> he's a
> > committer.  I'm not so I can't."
> >
> > Your new job is to convince them otherwise :)
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Blevins
> > http://twitter.com/dblevins
> > http://www.tomitribe.com
> >
> >
>
> --
> AAte
>
> Atenciosamente,
>
> Marco Ferreira
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