Guenter Marxen wrote:
Hello imacat,
Am 21.08.2012 22:11, schrieb imacat:
On 2012/08/22 03:39, Dan said:
...
Thank you~ ^_*' Trying to create cool things to promote
OpenOffice
and getting such feedback is really frustrating. ^^;
Things like this can be frustrating. Perhaps your first email
should have contained much more information. Your introduction is very
close to what too often appears in spam emails that many of us have
seen. I don't know, but I doubt that very many of the people of this
list knows what COSCUP 2012 is or what it does. (Some of us may be too
lazy to look it up.) This means that most would not know what this has
to do with Calc which is a spreadsheet application.
Spam has taught people to be suspicious when they see something
new. So they reacted negative to your emails.
Could you please stop this, will you? I'm only asking for kindness
on this list. This very same mail got positive responses on ooo-dev and
our local lists. Your opinion is proven incorrect and does not help.
please don't be too angry with elder people like Dan Lewis
([email protected]).
Not having this name but beeing elder, I like your video and think, that
younger people will be more attracted by your video than by most of
serious "advertising" mails. And this is good for AOO!
But I'm not angry, and please don't see it as such. Mine were just
comments of why he may have gotten the reception he did. And older
people have gotten angry based upon what they see. I suppose younger
people have also misinterpreted what an older person has said. I was
asking him to consider how others might interpret what he had done. What
he intended was not how others seem to have seen it.
Here are a couple of questions: Does people of OOo-DEV know what
COSCUP 2012 is all about? Do the people on the local list know him and
about this conference?
There is a lesson to be learned here. He has gotten his feelings
hurt. He seems to have made some assumptions when sending his email, and
some of use made some assumptions when reading it. They just were not
the same assumptions. It might be wise to consider how for both side to
figure out how to bring those assumptions closer together. After all,
the purpose of communications is take the ideas of one person and give
those ideas to others.
A person could read all that I have written and with certain
assumptions, consider that I wrote everything in a great deal of anger.
It would just be the wrong assumption. Or, I may be an older person, so
my ranting should be over looked. I don't know how much of that is the
correct assumption either.
Here is an example of what may be an assumption that is not what
is meant. "Elder" is a title that I have because I am an ordained
minister of a small denomination in the United States. It has nothing to
do with being an older person. And this leads to another assumption:
they refer to me as a "Rev." which is not the right one either.
There are lessons to be learned by all sides. Someone getting
upset because of what happened does not solve anything. We can all learn
from each other.
--Dan
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