Julia wrote: > Might I suggest <<Stallmanistas>>? Speaking as one of the guilty parties, I have to say that's not quite a true picture.
One of the reasons the whole BSD/GPL-KDE/GNOME/etc-etc 'arguments' occurs is that overall, we tend to agree on 90% of the issues, and it's the remaining bits that get heavily magnified. To more outsiders, it might indeed be a bit 'strong'... > I can vouch for eug-lug being fairly > intimidating, as a group. Leo and I > stopped coming to meetings and clinics because > they were a) very loud, I plead guilty. I'm probably one of the loudest. > b) very crowded, This would solved by a good location. The smaller the room, the more people, the worse that feelings is. > and c) very political. _Some_ of the politics is jokingly so, some is just part of the whole 'open source evangelism' thing... Either way, it's good feedback to hear that it does alienate some people, and we might need to watch for that... > Also there > was a fair amount of geek > machismo floating around when all I wanted to > do was configure my x server. Geek Machismo. Talk about an oxymoron at work... So noted. I know just what you mean. Personally, I think Neil's Slackware masochism is the biggest case of this (huge grin). > There's enough non-linux political side > discussions on the list to turn > off potentially active members. And one reason the activism list was started. In fact, we might want to look closely at pushing more of certain discussions onto sublists... It's not a big deal for the diehards to sub to more than one list, and it takes some of the pressure and the high traffic stuff off the list too. Feedback on this idea? > I can still > piss Leo off by mentioning a > certain "empty busses" thread. I can't even recall this one... Seth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
