[Sugar-devel] Have we achieved consensus among activite Sugar developers? [ Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 21]

[Sebastian Silva]

El 06/11/13 10:00, Daniel Narvaez escribió:
> On 6 November 2013 07:15, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org 
> <mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org>> wrote:
>
>     I too feel the overall attitude within this list has been
>     dismissive of
>     non-conforming ideas and individuals, sometimes bluntly. The spanish
>     speakers, from Xavi who did so much translation, to Homunq who
>     started (and abandoned) Develop Activity, to Yama whose ideals always
>     seemed to clash with reality, I miss them. I myself have been often
>     frustrated, having retreated biting my tongue more than once.
>
>     It makes me think of the eastern spiritual ideal of speaking only when
>     necessary, and then only the truth, and then only with sweet words.
>
>     Probably we have all broken that ideal here, and it is not clear
>     how to
>     facilitate constructive non-conformism.
>
>
> I can think of at least a couple of cases where the list could have 
> been more welcoming to  non-comforming contributors.
>
> That said I hope this thread doesn't discourage people to get 
> involved. Everything can be improved but Sugar is perhaps the most 
> welcoming free software community I know of... For good or for bad, 
> "sweet words" aren't really what you are normally met by if your ideas 
> or patches are not considered high quality enough by the existing 
> community.
I realize I chose my wording poorly. I did not mean "this list" but 
"this community".
You have to realize that Sugar community is explicitly more than just a 
Free Software community.
It's Supposed to be an Education Project, it's an ideal, it's more than 
just development, it's a diverse
community of people who believe in the value of collaboration and 
freedom as ways to impact
learning and therefore to change the world.

Therefore we should excersize care in making this a welcoming 
environment not just for developers,
but for any kind of contributors. It may be painstakingly slow, but I 
see the advent of freedom culture
within the educational systems and therefore governments as an 
unstoppable force, and Sugar as
a big part of that.

By the way, you always manage to respond constructively and positively. 
Kudos for that.

Regards,
--
Sebastian
@icarito
R+D SomosAzucar.Org
Sugar Labs Perú
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