Reply to: pobega@fuzzydev.org Original Message Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:08:29 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] You misunderstand me. Hearing people say that they would rather contribute to another source, esp one where they may have an email address, doesn't rial me at all. Why would it? That would mean that I took personally these little characters in front of me; black, on a white background. Moreover, my comment that you refer to was directed at one person. I don't know how that could have been misconstrued. This list is not exclusive to developers. Many people read it. Sure, I'd love a dev or 2, and I clearly asked, to contribute to the site. Why wouldn't I? But, I'd be just as happy, and I think the community the site serves would be as well, if anyone would give up a couple hours of their life to "donate" to the site. I never, nor do I now, expect this, though. That would make me arrogant to a point that even I couldn't stand ;) The site is my gift, so to speak, and why in the world would I demand some sort of return gift? lol, gifts don't work that way. So, maybe I wasn't as clear as I could have been with my OP. The site seeks contributions. It's not a lame site, it doesn't give bad information, although sometimes spelling mistakes occur! It's a site that sometimes shows or gives a person that thing that may have been missing for them. Maybe. Or, like college, maybe it prompted that person to think about a thing differently. Or, and this is the best that I could ever hope for -- maybe it simply made that person relax a little bit. You know, maybe even smile. I think the site NEEDS contributions from other people. In the past I have been castigated by a reader or 2 if I wrote something contrary to what they were expecting. I make no apologies, the site is "character driven" for a reason. (characters do evolve, however ;) ) This means that when this visitor was reading the site, (s)he was doing so with a hopeful heart and whatever concept or smartass quip I wrote hit them hard. Which, of course, means that this visitor thought the site authoritative enough to have faith in it. The site NEEDS contributions from other than me for this reason alone. I feel a strong sense of responsibility and know absolutely that I can't live up to that by continuing to go it alone. Do you understand? Frankly, I'm sick of talking about it. I asked. If one or 3 or even 19 people contact me because of it -- WOOHOO!!!! Then, the community will benefit. If no -- WOOHOO!!! I asked and I accomplished what I wanted to do. As a closing thought I would also like to mention that I am overjoyed that other sites exist that "document" Debian or Linux or other open source projects. Overjoyed because we are all different - we say things differently, our cultures command us to behave in unique ways. It's terribly important to have different voices contributing similar things because one source - no matter how brilliant - will fail to reach all but those that can relate to how that one source puts it out there. And that would be too bad. Thank everybody for having something to say about this and everyone that emailed me off the list. The community I belong to is wicked! ;) Happy Computing --machiner ----------------------------------------- On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:08:29 -0400 pobega@fuzzydev.org wrote: >On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: >> >> I thought I asked you a question. >> > >There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of >running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm >personally hoping that one day I can say that Debian's Wiki trumps >Gentoo or FreeBSD's documentation. >
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