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17.07.2012
effect is also seen in other parts of the job. "We're more active on IRC, we're talking to people in FSF Europe more, and we're asking them, 'What do you need?' and trying to understand how they perceive
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24.08.2012
's never easy to hear some outsider's criticisms, even if their job is to criticize when appropriate. Yet Peters, Sandler, and Neary all realized that going on the offensive wouldn't serve anyone's purpose
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30.09.2012
is like a generic cover letter with a job application. It suggests that you don't care much. And if you don't care, why should the potential employer or reviewer?
Should your effort fail to produce
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08.11.2012
make a stronger effort to report on the non-famous, the non-showboating -- those who get their job done and manage to maintain a sense of proportion about themselves. There are dozens of such people
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27.11.2012
, and Matthias Clasen know how to act professionally. However, these days, any negative comment about GNOME is met by an effort to villify me, and even to advise me about how to do my job (apparently, I should
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28.12.2012
. In a high stress, often minimum wage job, one critical word can hit you harder than a dozen compliments, because you are braced for attacks. But whether the number of complaints objectively outweigh
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08.02.2013
Note and Visio. However, until recently, free software has not strayed far from the core apps, although AbiWords has done a resourceful job of making online services accessible. In the case of Libre
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14.02.2013
, there is at least one category of people whose job is to criticize. They're called journalists, and their existence is one of the many indications that FOSS has grown beyond anyone's immediate personal connections
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14.03.2013
professional job, including Jennifer Cloer of The Linux Foundation and Sally Khudairi of The Apache Foundation. However, mostly, I've spoken in the abstract. I never had a detailed example to offer -- until last
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22.03.2013
overheard at PyCon, and the resulting Twitter storm that caused both she and one of the jokers to lose their jobs.
Each of these events has been discussed to exhaustion on Twitter and blogs. Even more
