Re: Appreciating developers
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:53:59AM +0100, Paul Stevens wrote:
>
> Alas, basic communicative skills and elementary knowledge of
> motivational psychology are simply not part of some people's mental
> toolkit.
> They are however required necessities when building a community-like
> environment such as Debian.
And for most jobs, as well. Unless you are so good that people simply
cannot pass you up, good communication skills will prove to be a big
advantage.
> I hope you have or will find an alternative, more positive
> strategy. We have enough talk already. People working on debian's core
> we can ill afford to alienate.
Very well said. I think it would behoove some people (err.. well, all
of us, really) to read this over and think about it.
Thanks,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
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