Kyle, You are right when you say that "veteran engineers are the foundation of this list and our community" and that "their participation is required in order to maintain a high-level of discussion, technical support, and training".
"Attracting and retaining these engineers" is very important but i don't believe "it should be our top priority" And by the way, we are not talking "advocacy and non-technical discussions here" but genuine and many times 'rookie-like' linux user queries. Please please and please, let us not risk leaving contributions to this list to a lonely handful of veteran engineers who once they run out of ideas or breath "God forbid" the list crumples like many have! We have a very hungry community out there for open-source technologies and linux is a great contributor to this cause. Like Simon and Stephen said, "We need to strike a balance between the newbies and the veterans, by teaching the newbies how to ask questions etc. and veterans how to hand-hold newbies" but "It's a balance we haven't yet mastered we want the newbies but we also want to retain the experience and insight of the veterans" I also don't believe that "better we inform the ignorant than preach to the converted" I mean, why would we preach to the ignorant anyway?!!! Andrew ------------ From: Kyle Spencer <[email protected]> To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]>, Simon Vass <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LUG] Belittling people's contributions Message-ID: <1318498259.1411.9.camel@Nokia-N900> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi Simon, > I'd love to hear thoughts on this. I think that veteran engineers are the foundation of this list and our community; their participation is required in order to maintain a high-level of discussion, technical support, and training. Accordingly, I think attracting and retaining veteran engineers should be our top priority. In my opinion, the best (and perhaps only) way to do this is to keep the noise low and the content technical; political correctness be damned. It follows, then, that most advocacy and non-technical discussion should be taken elsewhere (e.g. I-Network). After all, better we inform the ignorant than preach to the converted. Regards, Kyle Spencer _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
