On 06/13/2013 10:21 PM, A. Mani wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Sumana Harihareswara > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, this all sounds reasonable to me. > > > It is too vague. > We will use use many techniques to force the pace ... but that is > about local strategies. > Positive does not mean 'sweep all the problems under the carpet as the > right-wing media does'. Direct confrontation of problems invariably > attracts attention. Newbies need motivation and people who do not > seem to be confronting problems would be seen in bad light. 'M$' > provokes people ... that is good minimalist communication. If posters > are as flat as a pancake then people will not bother. Corporate > sponsored FOSS has its problems of vanishing discourse. > Anyway Satabdi's mail is off target. > > > Please comment on my guidelines in my last reply in this thread. > > > Best > > A. Mani > > > -- > A. Mani > CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS > http://www.logicamani.in > _______________________________________________ > > WFS-India mailing list > [email protected] > > Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at > http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your > account settings. > > -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
I believe the main choice here is between two main modes of engagement: * respectful and friendly * confrontational and provocative My personal values, as well as my experience, lead me to prefer the former. A. Mani is suggesting that we should choose what is *effective* and that the latter course is more likely to be effective. Could we do an A/B test to check who has data on their side? :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
