That's good to know.  I've yet to learn to use IRC; this might be a good
way to start. :-)

- Randy

Randy Macdonald
Program Manager, Innovation Academy
TAO Foundation
123 NE 3rd Ave
Portland, OR 97232
[email protected]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Robin Muilwijk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Randy,
>
> In case you don't know, some of the moderators (
> http://opensource.com/community-moderator-program) and staff also hangout
> regularly on IRC. See https://opensource.com/life/10/11/joining-us-irc.
> You are always welcome for a chat and/or questions.
>
> Best, Robin
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Randy Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Rikki,
>>
>> I just want to thank you for your nice post.  Newbies to opensource work,
>> like myself, really  appreciate that level of compassionate understanding.
>> :-)
>>
>> Randy Macdonald
>> Program Manager, Innovation Academy
>> TAO Foundation
>> 123 NE 3rd Ave
>> Portland, OR 97232
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Rikki Endsley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Now that I've got ~1 month on OSDC under my belt, and, more importantly,
>>> I have the list admin keys, I changed the settings to moderate messages
>>> to the osdc-list going forward.
>>>
>>> Shauna, totally agree with your points:
>>>
>>> *There are plenty of "real" open source projects that respond to
>>> newcomer confusion with patience, kindness, and instruction with regard to
>>> meta skills.  Just this morning at PyCon I had a great conversation with
>>> another professional open source developer & educator about how hard it is
>>> to know what you don't know, and how to help newcomers "unstick
>>> themselves".  You're reading ignorance as laziness and/or entitlement, but
>>> I see it (most of the time) as unfamiliarity with tools and culture.  *
>>>
>>> List admins will respond off-list to newcomers and help them "unstick
>>> themselves".  And the list can get back to discussions about Opensource.com
>>> (instead of discussions about the list).
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have questions or concerns. And thanks for all the
>>> thoughtful feedback!
>>> Rikki
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> *From: *"Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <[email protected]>
>>> *To: *"Eric Weddington" <[email protected]>
>>> *Cc: *"osdc-list" <[email protected]>, "Donato Cohen, Malena" <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> *Sent: *Thursday, April 9, 2015 2:54:51 PM
>>> *Subject: *Re: [Osdc-list] unscribe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> These people that just yell on this list "unscribe (sic) me!" would be
>>>> damn near flamed on any real open source project. You're expected to do a
>>>> little homework on your own to figure out how to do this. RTFM. STFW. How
>>>> hard is it? Not everything is just handed to you when you're a member of an
>>>> Open Source project.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are plenty of "real" open source projects that respond to newcomer
>>> confusion with patience, kindness, and instruction with regard to meta
>>> skills.  Just this morning at PyCon I had a great conversation with another
>>> professional open source developer & educator about how hard it is to know
>>> what you don't know, and how to help newcomers "unstick themselves".
>>> You're reading ignorance as laziness and/or entitlement, but I see it (most
>>> of the time) as unfamiliarity with tools and culture.
>>>
>>> Please stop treating open source as a monolith.  You may find that
>>> hostility is the best way to help people, but I don't, and almost all of
>>> the open source projects I interact with don't.
>>>
>>> - Shauna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> How ironic that we have exactly that case here on a mailing list about
>>>> Open Source. How sad. Some things never change.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Striker Leggette <[email protected]
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fresh subscriber, first time responder here.
>>>>>
>>>>> By "e-mail", do you mean the message thread/chain?  If so, they would
>>>>> definitely need to ask to be removed from the list of CC'd addresses.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you mean "e-mail list", then the links at the bottom of a list
>>>>> bounce
>>>>> would direct users directly to the list they wish to unsubscribe from.
>>>>> You can also see which list e-mails spawn from by looking at the
>>>>> subject: [Osdc-list].  Note, that adding the list id to the subject is
>>>>> optional for the list administrators.  I imagine this is done to allow
>>>>> easier filtering.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMHO, the system cannot be to blame because mailman cannot change how
>>>>> your e-mail client handles the messages it receives.  Links will be in
>>>>> the same place within an e-mail thread whether they are directly
>>>>> pointing to the 'unsubscribe button' or not.  In the case of mailman,
>>>>> however, authentication is required in order to unsubscribe, so links
>>>>> such as the ones that are one-click-unsubscribe are not possible -
>>>>> mailman does not generate 'token links'.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe the point has been made, however.  Perhaps we can let this
>>>>> thread die. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/09/2015 01:15 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
>>>>> > The problem might be people don't know with which email they are
>>>>> > subscribed. Would be great to have that info there as well and even
>>>>> > better to have a "one click and unsubscribe" link like mailchimp and
>>>>> co
>>>>> >
>>>>> > In general I wouldn't blame the customer, I prefer to blame the
>>>>> system.
>>>>> >
>>>>>
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