[Ambassadors] YouTube - Fosdem-review

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Thu Feb 18 20:51:04 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's a matter of asking common sense from the right people.
> Sending a broadcast message to this mailing list is nowhere near as
> effective as going straight to the leader of the group. You get the
> leader to agree to do things better, and the rest of the group will
> fall in line. We don't need a policy that tells people how to behave,
> yes, we're not robots. What we really do need is leadership at events
> that will go over to someone and politely suggest 'you know, perhaps
> you should take your laptop upstairs to the hacking room.'
>
> 90% of it is what the message is, but the other half is how it's
> delivered. This is what it means to be professional.

On the other hand by raising the issue at least in the abstract here
it made a lot of ambassadors and event owners think about their own
behavior again. And I think that is a good thing really to be reminded
about now and then.

John



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