On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:20 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:


> I think we gain more by being excited and asking them to join our
> community, meet us, learn more about free software, etc than if we
> temper it down. When you praise someone that's learning something, you
> don't say "that's ok but it'd be better if ...", you say "that's
> great! nice job!" And then the next time you say "how about if you try
> xyz this time?"


Thank you Stormy, this is a great point of view.

You really understood what people like me and Lefty want to point out.

-- 
Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer
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