Well said, Gokul! Sasi
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 04:20 -0700, Visakh wrote: > Hi, > > On May 14, 6:25 am, BINNY THOMAS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmm thats great. I am a former Loyolite too. > > Very nice to hear that! But its a natural tendency, since Loyola was > one of the earliest schools to experiment with Gnu/Linux systems. > > Anyway, I mentioned that I am a former Loyolite, just to reassure > Zacharia that help is at hand. In this group, we assume that all users > are proficient with gnu/linux and pass instructions accordingly. What > we forget is that some people who request help have just a few days of > experience with linux- and tend to become confused when we start > taking about mounting, devices, commands etc etc. Given enough time > (say, 1 to 2 months), they may become as proficient as any in the > group- may even become a valuable volunteer or a developer, but for > now we have to show enough patience with beginners in explaining the > basics and preventing them from getting nervous. > > It was just that I didn't want to perplex him at the beginning > itself. If you look at some fora, you can see experienced users > becoming intolerant of beginners, asking them to go and learn first. > Very often, they just drive beginners away from FOSS. Atleast, this > group's attitude is very beginner friendly. The fact is that many > questions raised in many fora including this have ready-made answers > if you know how to google diligently. But if people knew how to find > all answers and solve all problems themselves, they simply wouldn't > need fora like these. Sharing knowledge, ideas, experience and work is > the whole idea behind FOSS, isn't it? > > Regards, > Gokul Das > > -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please visit http://swatantryam.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
