Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-19 Thread Marvin Renich
* Marvin Renich [200619 11:17]: > You post a banner within the Go community that is off topic and is ^ Just to be clear, the "you" in this paragraph is not you, Ian, personally. I am referring collectively to the maintainers of the web sites and mailing lists in their official capacities.

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-19 Thread Marvin Renich
* Ian Lance Taylor [200619 00:20]: > It's an important discussion, but having it on golang-nuts is not working. > > It can continue off-list. You post a banner within the Go community that is off topic and is highly controversial (this thread is clear evidence of that). You then squelch

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-18 Thread Sam Whited
I should rephrase that, "it's an important discussion *for this community*" and I think it's as important to expose this community to it as it is any other. On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, at 00:20, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:04 PM Sam Whited wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020,

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:04 PM Sam Whited wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020, at 22:00, 人间不值得 wrote: > > I thought, Everyone live matters. not just only Black. (White, > > yellow..) Did their lives matter? > > Of course they do. You seem, deliberately or not, to be missing the > obvious but

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-18 Thread Robert Engels
Know your audience, and read the room. The message and how the message is delivered are distinct. Not executing on the latter obscures the former. Clearly this is a common problem for many on this subject. > On Jun 18, 2020, at 11:04 PM, Sam Whited wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020, at

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Please respect my request to let this thread drop. Thank you. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-18 Thread 人间不值得
I thought, Everyone live matters. not just only Black. (White, yellow..) Did their lives matter? Golang stand only for black live matters. What about your country , you people. Russ cox, You are white, did you live matters? peterGo於 2020年6月14日星期日 UTC+8下午9時36分38秒寫道: > > Recently, a political

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
This thread is visibly not working. I would like to ask everyone to do their very best to let this thread drop. Please do not try to get the last word. If you absolutely must continue, I strongly encourage you to take it to private e-mail, off the list. This applies to everyone, regardless of

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread K Richard Pixley
On 6/16/20 09:04, 'Thomas Bushnell, BSG' via golang-nuts wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:51 AM 'K Richard Pixley' via golang-nuts mailto:golang-nuts@googlegroups.com>> wrote: I do not agree with the Rust team.  I would prefer to make my technology decisions based on technological

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread 'Thomas Bushnell, BSG' via golang-nuts
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:51 AM 'K Richard Pixley' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I do not agree with the Rust team. I would prefer to make my technology > decisions based on technological criterion. But if you force me to make > that decision based on your religion,

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread David Riley
On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 11:52:10 AM UTC-4, K Richard Pixley wrote: > > There is agreement on the code of conduct. There is not agreement on the > banner. IMO, the banner is out of line with the goals of this group and > with the code of conduct. It's inappropriate. It needs to be

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread 'K Richard Pixley' via golang-nuts
On 6/16/20 5:00 AM, Russ Cox wrote: ...I will quote from the Code of Conduct here – “regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or similar personal

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread 'Thomas Bushnell, BSG' via golang-nuts
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:41 AM Space A. wrote: > > Are you saying you don't care about the rest of the World? This > "situation" does not affect in any way many many gophers which have to deal > with much more serious problems than you could imagine, on a daily basis. > There are a lot of

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread Nate Finch
Raise your hand if you think black lives don't matter? Raise your hand if you think "[providing] legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes, poor prisoners without effective representation, and others who may have been denied a fair trial." is a bad thing?

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread Space A.
> To people who object to the banner as too focused on the United States: > Google and Go both started here, nearly all of the Go team is here, a > substantial number of Go community members live here, and many others > travel here for conferences or other reasons. The situation here affects

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread Russ Cox
Hi everyone, I wanted to reply here to acknowledge the feedback on this thread. I hear those of you who are uncomfortable with the banner, and I appreciate the honest and mostly constructive discussion here. As the Rust team said well, tech is and will always be political, not in the sense of

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread Rusco
After all (I think this has been discussed already ), who is owner of the Golang Project ? Isn't this supposed to be an open source / community based project ? What about mine political ideas, can I put them also on golang's front page, since I am part of the community ? Where will we end up

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread sanye
On 6/16/20 2:43 PM, Sam Whited wrote: So you're suggesting that because we can't help all people all of the time we should help no one at any time? That is a logical fallacy. Right now in this moment there are protests all over the world about a specific issue, so yes, a specific cause is being

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-16 Thread Sam Whited
So you're suggesting that because we can't help all people all of the time we should help no one at any time? That is a logical fallacy. Right now in this moment there are protests all over the world about a specific issue, so yes, a specific cause is being supported because the time is right, and

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread sanye
On 6/15/20 9:48 PM, Space A. wrote: Because there are hundreds or thousands of initiatives to support suffering and dying people in African, Asian, Eastern European, and what else countries that will never be supported by top banner at golang.org.     That's right. On Monday, June 15,

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Ugorji Nwoke
A simple message was posted: "Black Lives Matter. Support the Equal Justice Initiative". I understand that this is controversial to say in some quarters. I am saddened that this is controversial to say here. Rust developers succinctly captured why it is appropo to say in

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Amnon
The Go community includes programmers of all races, nationalities and cultures. Every member of the community has the right to go about their daily lives without being killed by the police force. I applaud the decisions of the Go team to take a public stand in favour of this right. I am

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Rick
I agree with previous posts pointing out that "black lives matter" is not a political message. In fact, it isn't even a social message. It's a statement of fact. Please leave the banner up. On Sunday, 14 June 2020 06:36:38 UTC-7, peterGo wrote: > > Recently, a political message with a

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Space A.
Because there are hundreds or thousands of initiatives to support suffering and dying people in African, Asian, Eastern European, and what else countries that will never be supported by top banner at golang.org. On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 4:33:05 PM UTC+3, Sam Whited wrote: > > Why is it

Re: [go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Sam Whited
Why is it disrespectful to the rest of the world? In what way does supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and an important not-for- profit diminish from other problems that also need solving? One of my neighbors recently put it this way: would you walk up to someone at a breast cancer

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Space A.
Agree with Peter. It's not the right place and time and disrespectful for the rest of the World. You don't even imagine what problems, social or political, people who live far away from US face each and every day. On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 4:36:38 PM UTC+3, peterGo wrote: > > Recently, a

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Rusco
This is political hijacking of the Golang project, I am disgusted ! On Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:36:38 UTC+1, peterGo wrote: > > Recently, a political message with a fundraising link appeared as a banner > atop golang.org websites: https://golang.org/, https://pkg.go.dev/. > >

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-15 Thread Marian Kopriva
I agree with Peter's sentiment here. On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 3:36:38 PM UTC+2, peterGo wrote: > > Recently, a political message with a fundraising link appeared as a banner > atop golang.org websites: https://golang.org/, https://pkg.go.dev/. > > content/static: add Black Lives Matter banner

[go-nuts] Re: political fundraising on golang.org!

2020-06-14 Thread Amnon Baron Cohen
I, for one, applaud the posting of the banner. Solidarity! On Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:36:38 UTC+1, peterGo wrote: > > Recently, a political message with a fundraising link appeared as a banner > atop golang.org websites: https://golang.org/, https://pkg.go.dev/. > > content/static: add Black