On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:36:43PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > [...] > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number) is a good starting point. > > Never trust a reference people can edit themselves, but even that > ack's 0 as a number. I wrote 1-4, then moved 4 to before 1 and picked > a different number instead of renumbering all or leaving disordered to > save time. I'm surprised and disappointed that it got so much debate.
And renumbering 3 items is such a terribly hard thing to do, of course. The use of lists starting at zero (as in the GPL freedoms) is something which immediately proclaims "I'm a geek" to almost everyone, and a large proportion of them will stop reading at that point because they'll expect a following series of geek in-jokes. It doesn't make sense in English, where there isn't an ordinal for zero (except Asimov's "Zeroth Law", which is horrible) and certainly not for negative numbers. > Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A lot of the reasons AFFS was started have more or less gone away; > > Some of them remain, for sure: > - financing For what purpose? > - connecting UK supporters to other groups Does that happen? > - monitoring/helping UK l10n, i18n and politics Does that happen? Monitoring politics, to a small extent, but I don't recall seeing anything about i18n or l10n. > > Specifically, I think the free software developer community in this > > country is disparate and not well networked: while LUGs provide this to > > an extent, we still rely on things like Linux Expos for hackers to meet > > up. [...] > > Once it sorts itself out, AFFS could assist with the coordination and > chronicling. Should AFFS run meets at other events? In what way, apart from this mailing list? > If that meeting happens at fairly short notice in one corner of the > country (as currently suggested), please offer some remote > participation, or at least record it well and let those who can't > attend review it. I doubt I'm the only willing hand who might not > attend. A weekday meeting in London is only convenient to those who work in or close to London. I couldn't get to an early evening meeting on a Tuesday, and later evening (8pm, say) I'd have to leave almost as soon as I arrived. This is also a major reason developers don't meet very often outside local LUGs an the like, after work half the people can't get there and back at sensible times. Some also have a life outside developing software (I know, this is strange for geeks but some are even married). Chris C _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
