On Monday 04 Jan 2010 11:33:01 cool-RR wrote: > Just my opinion here: I don't mind using Facebook myself, but since some > people object to it I think we should be using something else. > > What about the hackers.org.il thing that Meir said? Or at the very least we > can start a simple mailing list by sending a message to > [email protected] (Or whatever else you'd like to call it.) >
There's already a mailing list: * http://www.hackers.org.il/mailing-lists/ * http://www.hackers.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Mailing_list Regards, Shlomi Fish > Ram. > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Idan Gazit <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:18 AM, benny daon wrote: > > > This is fun! > > > > > > I think we all agree on that and that you can use facebook to > > > organize meetings and still be a great person (but not a great > > > hacker :-). > > > > You know what makes you a great hacker? The shit you make, not the > > tools you use. That's the one and only metric that matters. All this > > talk of "hacker values?" Just talk. > > > > > The only problem is trying to organize a meetup of hackers on > > > facebook. You've picked a place that a part of the community sees as > > > enemy turf. This view is shared by many hackers world wide and is > > > based on the values found in the jargon file and I'm pretty sure you > > > can't convince J. Random Hacker to join a hacker group on facebook. > > > > A) Stop quoting the jargon file to me like I've never heard of it. ESR > > is great but he is not the entirety of hackerdom. > > > > B) I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that mpre readers of HN don't > > give a damn about using facebook than do. Case in point: even in this > > thread, several J. Random Hackers thought that it's a good idea and > > didn't give a damn about facebook. *I'M* J. Random Hacker and I don't > > care about using facebook. QED. > > > > I think it will be very sad if somebody decides not to come because > > they don't like my usage of facebook to post the event information. > > > > > There's no way around it - if you decide to keep it in facebook > > > you'll lose the part of the hacker community that takes the hacker > > > values seriously. > > > > Right now, all I'm losing is time, being lectured about the jargon > > file and the hacker ethic as if I've never heard of either. > > > > If the usage of facebook offends so much then write something better > > or shut up. Otherwise, I'm going to stick to the hacker ethic of > > trying to MAKE SOMETHING with the tools I have at hand. > > > > -I > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "PyWeb-IL" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<pyweb-il%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > >.com> . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il?hl=en. > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) _______________________________________________ Python-il mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-il
