Re: Gobby notes from diversity/inclusion BOF/workshop, Cambridge
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Yes. The Debian culture is cast around older tools. We work mostly via
> (plain-text!) email and IRC. And yes, I will argue (and even prove, as
> we did for an online conference ~10 years ago, where IRC was proven
> better than any other alternatives because of many small details) that
> they are much better suited to our work than that newfangled,
> mobile-friendly, over-AJAXy technologies that lure youngsters
> nowadays. I really doubt we will change our use of tools, but that is
> an important hurdle to attract newcomers: Our way of communication
> smells like it's 1995. And we like it to be uphill both ways.
There is no reason our tools can't be friendly to folks used to web
interfaces too. For example, Fedora seems to be doing some good work
there:
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2016/11/15/fedora-hubs-and-meetbot-a-recursive-tale/
"Note this follows our general principle of enabling new contributors
while not uprooting our existing ones."
--
bye,
pabs
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