On Sunday 20 Sep 2009 18:42:49 Ori Idan wrote: > As allways I volunteer to give the philosophy lecture.
That would be nice. I think we should also need a backup lecturer. Maybe Eddie or Lisha or someone. And if you have any comments on the summary that would be nice. > I can also give a rerun of the living in the community lecture. I don't think it will be necessary as part of the core 2-4 parts series. We'll just refer people to the slides, or maybe you give them as part of the extended series. I think the original "How to ask questions the smart way" by ESR & Rick Moen is instructive but a bit patronising. As important netiquette is, we should be friendly and tolerable to questions of newcomers, even if they appear a little clueless at first, because they may prove to be a useful addition to our community. See for example, my: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/perl-newcomers/ And there's been some discussion on related topics on the Perl blogosphere lately too. I realise newbies and especially the clueless ones can be annoying, but I'd rather not lose a single one because, one by one, we can end up losing a lot. I've already talked with a FOSS developer on Freenode's #perl who said he's been using NetBSD because #netbsd was the only distribution channel which treated him with friendliness and respect. So things like that count. Regards, Shlomi Fish [Trimming the quoted message] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il