I think it is worth bringing this one video to people's attention. It is worth an hour to watch it all.
On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > As a mentor, I have two comments: <snipping the first comment> > - I highly recommend that people view through the slides for the > well-respected "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People" set of > slides: > > https://sites.google.com/site/io/how-open-source-projects-survive-poisonous-people > > The talk is worth watching, but for those short on time the slides are worth > reading. In particular, the aspects about how communities of many different > kinds of people (the vast majority who are not poisonous, by the way!) can > effectively work together on public mailing lists. A key slide is pp 5, and > pp7 as a followup: > > "Attention and Focus > These are your scarcest resources > You must protect them" > > - Shane Best Regards, Dave
