On Jun 9, 9:30 am, Morris Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if the first jQuery plugin since jQuery was implemented > into the TiddlyWiki core isn't worth someone acknowledging?
[snip] > What happened to the comradery and generosity? > > Why not give credit where credit is due? The silence is cruel. One of the things that is most interesting about open source projects is that anyone can take up the banner to do pretty much anything: any member of the community can test, praise, report bugs, give credit, write code, critique, write docs, etc. They just have to step up and do it. The member of the community can be new or a long time confederate, they can be young or old, they can know the technical depths of the project or simply be enthusiastic. One of the things that is rather interesting about TiddlyWiki is that the lines between content, data and code are very blurred. A plugin is all three. Anyone can use, revise, create a plugin. One of the things is most interesting about TiddlyWiki is that because of the above blurred lines, the divisions between developer and user are similarly blurred. In some sense everyone who uses TiddlyWiki is a developer, a tester, a user and a critic. Different aspects come out at different times and to different degrees. That's background for this: All the members of the TiddlyWiki community are responsible for making sure that everyone gets the praise or criticism they warrant. There seems to be an expectation, increasingly so in the last two years, that there is some core, in a ivory tower, that does most of the work and makes most of the decisions. The reason this happens is because people allow it, and encourage it. On the one hand I applaud you, Morris, for pointing out that someone's plugin needs to be celebrated. Indeed it does. On the other hand, I'm disappointed that you are perpetuating the notion that there is a someone else, an other, which should be doing the celebrating. There isn't. There is only the whole community. Whatever classes that people perceive to exist in the community are there because people on all sides are feeding them through action and inaction. There could be a lot more to say here, but I think that's enough for now so let's just sum it up: TiddlyWiki is awesome because of _all_ the people involved and the involvement of all the people. It takes effort by everyone to ensure that involvement. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
