[Baypiggies] Participation and improvement [Was: Re: Python Job posting- still allowed ?]
Danny Yoo
dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Thu May 11 00:29:26 CEST 2006
> Think about how much easier it would have been to post this initially,
> rather than begging the question:
[job posting policy content cut]
Hi Mike,
True; that probably would have been the better approach. It's sometimes
difficult to know if a response to a question is insufficiently
informative; we don't know enough about the questioner to realize that
"look at the web site" might be too abrupt.
> Bottom line: I'd like to see MANY more job ads on this list,
> interspersed with the general list chatter (by people who almost never
> come to the meetings, I might add... Maybe we should make a policy that
> you can't post to the list unless you attend at least half the meetings
> in a given 12-month period? Just a thought...).
I just wanted to comment on the last parenthetical comment. Rather than
encourage a policy of exclusion, I'd rather see a policy of participation.
(Of course, I'm one of those people who haven't come to a Baypiggies
meeting in a while, so of course I'm obligated to object to being
silenced. *grin*)
That is, I think one could spend energy to discourage a group of people
from dominating discussion. But that energy could be also directed to
start a new thread of conversation that allows others to participate
freely.
Let's go meta on this. Here's a question for folks here: as a
professional programmer, what other community resources do you use to
become better at what you do? Are there local workshops or classes in the
area that have been particularly effective and successful?
Do subscriptions to organizations like the ACM or IEEE (or BayPIGgies)
help at all? If not, what can such organizations do to help improve its
participants?
Best of wishes!
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