Re: On what we want to support: travel?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>, "Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher" <stefan(at)net-tex(dot)de>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: On what we want to support: travel?
Date: 2006-11-06 17:05:55
Message-ID: 454F6B73.9000006@commandprompt.com
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:29:43 -0500,
> Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org> wrote:
>> On 1 Nov 2006 at 20:36, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumach wrote:
>>
>> More users mean more resources to draw from. When people get
>> enthusiastic about something, they have energy to contribute. In
>> general, people do not go out of their way to contribute to projects
>> they have no interest in.
>
> It also means more users to support. Depending on the mix of new users,
> the overall effect on the project could end up being negative.

This is easily the saddest statement I have seen in this thread. Are we
so l33t that we are unwilling to help newbies come to our wonderful project?

If that is the opinion of this project, I am ready to move to another one.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

P.S. Thank goodness it is not the opinion of this project.

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