[Ambassadors] Red Hat's investments (was Re: Going passive)

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 14:08:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the lessons that's been hammered over and over again in
> community conferences I've attended, by projects including Drupal,
> Gentoo, Ubuntu, and others, is that the worst effects of incivility
> don't happen to participants in a conversation but to onlookers.
> Onlookers are disincented to participate in discussions in hostile
> venues, which in turn discourages contribution.

As one of those "onlookers" I thank you.

Richard


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