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On 04/11/2017 05:22 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> When people make assumptions about others based on posts to a mailing |
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> list etc. It seems they may have a limited view of the world and lack |
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> of world experience. The more you travel, learn other cultures, etc. |
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> You learn not to assume about others. Cultures alone can be very |
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> different. You also learn respect is a VERY big thing. In the US in my |
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> area and others. Lack of showing respect can result in violence. In |
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> business lack of respect can really be costly just the same. In Asian |
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> cultures, respect is HUGE. |
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[finding a place in block of text to break in with a relative context] |
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Doesn't this argument go both ways? We have participants from a number |
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of cultures on the mailing list, and what you feel insulted for I |
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wouldn't even shrug about here in Norway. In certain other European |
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countries (or northern Norway), you'd be considered prude for not having |
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some expletives involved in the everyday discussion. |
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And doesn't the extension of that argument mean that we should all try |
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to consider the feedback from others in how we present ourselves? Given |
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that most of our discussions within this project happens via email, and |
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on IRC, but email would be the more dominant channel in terms of |
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substantive discussions, shouldn't we make an effort to increase the |
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signal to noise ratio and give it serious thought when multiple people |
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state that a specific behavior is unwanted? |
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I believe most of us want a more fruitful community within Gentoo, but I |
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do not believe the way to go ahead to get it is running around |
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complaining, adding to the negativity. If you really want change, try to |
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contribute code through the established channels, try to contribute |
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documentation patches, contributing with resourced bug reports, and say |
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thank you to developers once in a while instead of expecting some sense |
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of entitlement because others are contributing pro bono[i]. |
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All I can say is, spending the amount of time reading the dominant |
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mailing lists is time I could've spent on other aspects of Gentoo, and |
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I'd much prefer the participants respecting the use of my time when |
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posting to one of the lists that'd be expected I read to begin with. |
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So if you know, and receive indication of, a misrepresentation of |
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persona in such information channels -- might I suggest considering |
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contributing through different channels and/or limiting the |
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communication to objective contributions (such as patches)? |
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Notes: |
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[i] granted I should quantify that with saying that pro bono argument |
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only goes so far, if picking up a responsibility it should be followed |
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up or dropped, the voluntary basis is whether to pick up the ball or not |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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