On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Paolo Amoroso wrote: > I realize that my frankness may sound harsh. I am aware that > volunteer labor is a gift, and that Real Life takes its toll. But I > would like to understand why the CLD has received so little help, and > whether this may have any implications for current and future > gardeners projects.
> Ideas and discussions are no longer enough. Lisp needs labor, not > praise. I agree with this last sentiment and appreciate Paolo's frankness. I'm also interested in what we can do to enable more people to contribute to tending the Common Lisp garden. It may be that the CLD isn't your cup of tea and that's why you didn't contribute to that particular project--that's fine. But we're approaching 400 subscribers to this list and as far as I know, only a dozen folks or so have participated in any of the active projects. While I'm fine with people lurking on the list, if you joined because you want to *do* something and there's something that's stopping you, you should speak up. A big part of the initial idea behind the Gardener's project was that there are a lot of folks who are enthusiastic to help out but don't always know where their help is needed or welcome and that we could help play matchmaker. But we can only do that if folks at least take the initiative to raise their hand and say, I'd like to help and I can do this and that and the other thing but I don't know where to start. So if you're just here to lurk, lurk on. But if you want to help and you haven't yet, please either find a project to pitch in on or post something to the list about what you'd *like* to work on and we'll see if we can help you out. -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
