Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-21 Thread Joan Touzet
And for clarity I was not accusing you of cookie licking :D Thank you for taking the initiative with the wiki FAQ! -Joan On 2019-05-21 17:30, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > In that connection, I want to make sure people understand I do not want > to stop other people from editing the Resources or

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
In that connection, I want to make sure people understand I do not want to stop other people from editing the Resources or FAQ pages. I will publish often enough that I can easily merge any changes I've made since the last publish. I just wanted to get things started ASAP. Think of me as

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-21 Thread Joan Touzet
I'll admit I mostly link it because of this topic: https://communitymgt.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie_Licking which is a real thing that kills communities quickly. Though, their other anti-pattern pages are good, too. There's an amazing number of trackers on the web these days. I don't think we

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-18 Thread William A Rowe Jr
That seems like a good point to raise with those web resource admins. They are outside of the ASF's purview? We can certainly have linking guidelines from D, but in licensing and other issues, we've observed that a friendly note can go a long ways. On Sat, May 18, 2019, 22:32 Patricia Shanahan

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-18 Thread William A Rowe Jr
It doesn't seem to be our concern... Most pages have trackers but ours do not. If we add disclaimer/warnings to all our links, we need to do that on PMC resource pointer pages, even sponsor links. This is a web client problem, and there are resources to deal with it for those concerned, IMO On

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-18 Thread Naomi Slater
perhaps we could add an informative note about the trackers? I expect this is an issue that will pertain to multiple sites so it might be beneficial if we develop a standard way of dealing with this without having to omit the resource On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 19:02, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > >

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 2019/05/13 16:43:11, Joan Touzet wrote: ... > * Some excellent resources are below, including a final article on why > "If you don't teach me, how can I learn?" is a tried-and-true > derailing technique and not an honest request for assistance. I'd > think that these kinds of

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-14 Thread Ruth Holloway
Hi! A friend of mine did a really good talk on inclusiveness of application design last year, that may be relevant to this sort of resource.  Very tongue-in-cheek, but talks rather a lot about cultural awareness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f8882vQVdI D Ruth Holloway

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-14 Thread Joan Touzet
On 2019-05-14 12:17 p.m., Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 5/14/2019 8:18 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 5:05 PM Griselda Cuevas wrote: ...The word does not have a negative connotation to me since I translated it from Spanish Thanks Gris! Indeed in English,

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:17 PM Patricia Shanahan wrote: > ...I am > also thinking of a complete question and answer on the risk of > miscommunication, especially in writing unaided by tone of voice, facial > expressions, and body language. It is further complicated when people > are using

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 5/14/2019 8:18 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 5:05 PM Griselda Cuevas wrote: ...The word does not have a negative connotation to me since I translated it from Spanish It looks like we have multiple examples already where specific "loaded" words really do not

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 5:05 PM Griselda Cuevas wrote: > ...The word does not have a negative connotation to me since I translated > it from Spanish It looks like we have multiple examples already where specific "loaded" words really do not mean the same in different cultures. My suggestion

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-14 Thread Griselda Cuevas
@Joan - Thanks for asking for clarification, to me preaching means "living by our ideologies" and helping others understand and support them. The word does not have a negative connotation to me since I translated it from Spanish. Alex, you got my point right, thank you for articulate them well.

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Alex Harui
I'm definitely not an expert in this area, but want to share some thoughts: 1) If this group wants to be open and transparent then the number of mailing lists will not matter. Trolls will find any public mailing list. Well-intentioned newbies will not understand which list to choose from.

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Niall Pemberton
; > means creating rules and regulations by which others must conform. This > > creates tension and defensive behavior. The word "action" will reinforce > > this assumption. > > > > Ross > > > > ____ > > From: Patric

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Matt Sicker
And patience is fairly difficult when dealing with obvious concern trolls. That has been especially annoying on members@, board@, etc, where we’re supposed to assume good faith. However, only one side in the game takes a loss when doing so in an iterated game. I’d rather not summarize the

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Matt Sicker
As a project, it could use dev@ and user@ like typical projects. User list for questions, dev list for research and actions. It sort of makes sense. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 16:23, Joan Touzet wrote: > On 2019-05-13 16:37, Griselda Cuevas wrote: > > Teaching by preaching is what will earn us

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Joan Touzet
On 2019-05-13 16:37, Griselda Cuevas wrote: > Teaching by preaching is what will earn us respect, credibility and > authority to speak of this topic. Gris, can I ask what you mean by "preaching" in this context? For me this has a very negative connotation and feels out of place in a secular

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Griselda Cuevas
; > Ross > > > > ________ > > From: Patricia Shanahan > > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 11:45 AM > > To: diversity@apache.org > > Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list > > > > I am going to start the FAQ discussion, using [FA

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
"action" will reinforce this assumption. Ross From: Patricia Shanahan Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 11:45 AM To: diversity@apache.org Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list I am going to start the FAQ discussion, using [FAQ] as tag, without waiting for

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Griselda Cuevas
__ > From: Patricia Shanahan > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 11:45 AM > To: diversity@apache.org > Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list > > I am going to start the FAQ discussion, using [FAQ] as tag, without > waiting for a new list, but

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Ross Gardler
reinforce this assumption. Ross From: Patricia Shanahan Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 11:45 AM To: diversity@apache.org Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list I am going to start the FAQ discussion, using [FAQ] as tag, without waiting for a new list, but will move it i

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Rich Bowen
On 5/13/19 2:37 PM, Naomi Slater wrote: apologies for the second follow up. two things: 1) it's not really even about bifuricating "the community". it's about the fact that there are two groups of people here: the people who want to get D work done, and the people who want to learn about D

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Bertrand Delacretaz Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 10:30 AM To: diversity@apache.org Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list Hi, On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:19 PM Patricia Shanahan wrote: ...I don't want my FAQ-collection effort to get in the way of getting things done on diversity@. For th

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Naomi Slater
). and I can't over-emphasize how >> much we put that at risk if we allow meta discussion to take place here >> >> >> >> On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 19:50, Ross Gardler >> wrote: >> >>> +1 to not another list, use subject tag "[FAQ]" >>> &

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Naomi Slater
:50, Ross Gardler > wrote: > >> +1 to not another list, use subject tag "[FAQ]" >> >> >> From: Bertrand Delacretaz >> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 10:30 AM >> To: diversity@apache.org >> Subject: Re: FAQ an

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Naomi Slater
10:30 AM > To: diversity@apache.org > Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list > > Hi, > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:19 PM Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > ...I don't want my FAQ-collection effort to get in the way of getting > > things done on diversity@. For that reason,

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Ross Gardler
+1 to not another list, use subject tag "[FAQ]" From: Bertrand Delacretaz Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 10:30 AM To: diversity@apache.org Subject: Re: FAQ and education mailing list Hi, On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:19 PM Patricia Shanahan wrote: > ...I

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:19 PM Patricia Shanahan wrote: > ...I don't want my FAQ-collection effort to get in the way of getting > things done on diversity@. For that reason, I suggest creation of a > mailing list diversity_education@a.o... I disagree with Yet Another List as it tends to

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Joan Touzet
Couple of thoughts - sorry for being brief, and really not trying to bikeshed here: * We need someone to shepherd this, thank you Patricia for volunteering! Generally my opinion is that the work of building the content should fall to those who have learned, not the explainers, who are the

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Matt Sicker
I’m not sure how the technical feature works, but mailing lists can set up an FAQ. Ezmlm allows you to send a message to diversity-h...@apache.org which could theoretically be used here. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 08:18, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I picked the name without much thought, so it can

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I picked the name without much thought, so it can almost certainly be improved. On 5/13/2019 6:04 AM, Naomi Slater wrote: I think this is a great idea I hope this isn't bikeshedding, but perhaps we should choose a different name. I say this because I'd like to be able to direct someone to

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Naomi Slater
I think this is a great idea I hope this isn't bikeshedding, but perhaps we should choose a different name. I say this because I'd like to be able to direct someone to this other list without it sounding like I'm telling them they need to "get an education" perhaps diversity-meta@ (because it

FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-11 Thread Patricia Shanahan
From my experience with technical newsgroups and mailing lists, including those intended for experts, a FAQ can be invaluable in dealing with the questions the long term participants have seen far too often. Craig Russell has suggested having one for our diversity effort. I am sure there are