Hi all, On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Debamitro Chakraborti <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think 3 rules out of the page are enough: Have a look at the current scheme of things at https://wfs-india.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/9/Dyfc9GVqBb (see under Version 1) @Aruna: Mailing list 'patch' delivered as promised :-) I must mention that Kaustav helped along hugely with his edits, inputs and suggestions. @Mani thank you for the initial effort in putting it up in the etherpad. It is always useful to have a skeleton to work on rather than from the scratch. > Be polite. Don't get personal. Don't use unacceptable language. Respect > other people's freedom of choice of distributions/editors/e-mail I've deep personal reservations about the above. Women in general in India are tutored from their girlhood to be polite, to be subservient, to obey the authority (usually male). The words "Be polite. Don't get personal. Don't use unacceptable language" left AS-IS is likely to trigger a Pavlovian response of classical conditioning where the women may withdraw from pro-activeness or an equally opposite obdurate counter knee-jerk reaction. Personally I've seen that if I ask my wife not to do something, without explaining the rationale behind, she will, on purpose, do exactly the opposite :-D > IMO the rest are serving no purpose but confusing _normal_ i.e., non-FOSS > people. If you agree, please +1 and we can go ahead with these and remove > the rest of the page for further discussions inside the group. FOSS people and NON-FOSS people - that IMHO smacks of 'us' vs 'them' syndrome. If FOSS is to be way of life or at least provide a positive choice for people, such segregation while in the early stages may draw in people, is likely to drive a chasm between and splinter the group in later days. In that I agree with Mani's stand, just not her way or approach to it. @all Do read the draft and see if it is still too techie and newbie unfriendly - https://wfs-india.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/9/Dyfc9GVqBb > For our group it is much better to show a simple non-confusing face instead > of a terribly correct but totally confusing face. We should simplify and > friendlify (if there is such a word) our site ASAP else we stand to be > continuously mis-identified. + 100 cheers -idg -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
