Hi all, you are invited to join a new mailing list / forum I set up titled "geeks-IL":
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geeks-il What are geeks? Geeks, also known as "amateurs" (= people who love what they do and a word which used to be a compliment - see http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html ) or "hackers" (= people who bend the rules, and don't accept their fate and use this to try to earn their victory - see http://paulgraham.com/gba.html and http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/#david_and_goliath ), are people who like what they do and furthermore are interested in more than just their particular field or fields of expertise. There are geeks of anything from cooking and knitting (and even from shopping) to air&space engineering. Furthermore, geeks also come in all shapes and sizes: men, women, boys, girls, young, old, of almost all religions and beliefs, and of all races and origins, technical inclanations, appearances, character, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Fish_Two_Fish_Red_Fish_Blue_Fish . The forum's main language will be English (either U.S., Commonwealth or any other will be fine) but any other human or programming language will be accepted. We are focused on people who live in Israel, or are associated with it, but any person can join it as long as they try to be civil and friendly and if not - try to improve. I'll admit that I'm not sure if Geeks-IL will be very successful, but the worst way for it to fail would be to not try. Hackers-IL was successful even though it is now mostly inactive because it had many posts and provided a lot of inspiration and insights for the people who took an active part in discussing the topics there. Most good things never last forever anyway. Another note: linking to and soliciting feedback for digital works that you have produced is not only tolerated, but encouraged - as long as they are not or not entirely behind a paywall. Linking to works that you experienced recently and have inspired you is certainly encouraged, as long as you provide some study (= "Midrash") of what they mean to you. ==== Some of the things that make geeks unique and successful are: 1. They love the things they do. While a geek may do things he or she doesn't like doing - because they need to be done - they spend a lot of time doing things they love. 2. They bend the rules, and often improvise or do things differently. 3. They accept the fact that some of the results they will produce won't be perfect or even acceptable to most people, but they accept them as natural lowpoints, and learn from their mistakes and become better in the future. 4. They never give up completely - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE . 5. They know they lead an exciting and interesting life, even if other people find faults in a lot of the cool stuff they do. ======================== Some of the things that are discourages in the mailing list are disturbing depiction of violence and pornography (some sex/love/romance talk and talk about action/fighting/etc. is fine); spamming, professional trolling, hate E-mail and being a http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/258206/what-is-a-help-vampire ; maybe some other rules as we come with them, but our rules are just guidelines, not gospel, and people are expected to apply some amount of reason. Happy geekery! And feel free to forward this message (which is under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) to other mailing lists or forums. Best regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ Chuck Norris caught the early bird before she caught the worm. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
