I have been very impressed by how quickly members of the group jump in to help on most issues. It is very gratifying to be involved with such a talented group!
I wish I could take a month or to off just to help catalog and index all the great solutions in a way that would benefit the group the most. -Owen On Jul 27, 4:31 pm, Albert Chou <[email protected]> wrote: > Community is of paramount importance in the Apache Software Foundation's way > of working, so bravo to Hobo for being similarly inclined! Sometimes it can > be annoying to have to worry about community support rather than just code > quality, but ultimately, code without a community will die on the vine. > > Al > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Apolzon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matt- > > On behalf of all the lowly leechers and users of the team's framework, > > we'd like to say thank YOU. You have made it all happen, and although there > > are a few outliers who may think its not beautiful, Hobo is a wonderfully > > useful and extremely well-supported project. I can't tell you how happy I > > get when I see that you or any other core contributor responds to someone's > > post. > > And it never seems to matter the level of complexity in the question. It > > would be so easy to look at the cursory questions and say, "oh someone else > > will figure that one out". > > > And now I end this rambling smattering of compliments and return to the > > real world to do "work". > > > Thanks again! > > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Found in passing whilst tracking down the Sam Ruby talk's slides: > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/tumbolia/browse_thread/thread/4a5e8ed2... > > >> Relevant quote: > > >> It slowly occurred to me that free software misses the point, and so does > >>> open source. It isn’t about enforcing freedoms and political agendas. It > >>> isn’t about more eyes for shallow bugs. It’s about community. Without a > >>> throng of decent, friendly people who are open to new ideas, discussion, > >>> and > >>> who enjoy collaborating and helping each other, a project like this is > >>> nothing. A good community can make up for poor documentation, and lack of > >>> features. A good community can make up for anything! > > >> As we continue to improve the Hobo docs and fix bugs, I wanted to thank > >> everyone on the list for making the Hobo community work well. Even the > >> folks > >> who are just starting out and post, "It hurts when I do *this*!" are more > >> helpful than I can explain. > > >> Thanks again to everybody! :) > > >> --Matt Jones > > >> (PS: it's all "Deadliest Catch"'s fault. Watching the aftermath of the > >> (real) death of a person you've seen on TV for six years is enough to make > >> anybody a little misty. :) ) > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Hobo Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<hobousers%[email protected]> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Hobo Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<hobousers%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- > Nothing is impossible to the person who doesn't have to do it himself. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
