In general, it's not great to refer to people as nouns. It's better to say people with an adjective, so the person isn't replaced or given just one identity. I support not calling people coders or other noun.
-Wilhelmina Randtke On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Eric Hellman <e...@hellman.net> wrote: > Between September and November of 2008, the title attribute of the > Code4lib homepage was changed from "code4lib | Code for Libraries" to > "code4lib | coders for libraries, libraries for coders". > > Dave Winer, who could be considered the inventor of the blog, recently > tweeted about us: > > "code4lib: coders for libraries, libraries for coders. (I really hate the > word "coders.") code4lib.org <http://code4lib.org/>" > > As someone who feels that Code4Lib should welcome people who don't > particularly identify as "coders", I would welcome a return to the previous > title attribute. > > Eric Hellman > President, Free Ebook Foundation > Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ > twitter: @gluejar >
