<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 19 Sep 2011, at 21:29, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I do think it's strange to focus on such things, when they've never been a problem.</div><div>Maybe its a good to think about them before the problem occurs, but....</div><div><br></div><div>Ruby Manor is all about Community.</div>
<div><br></div><div>An event that hands its organisation over to the community,</div><div>(to all members of that community who choose to get involved)</div><div>is already in a much better place than an O'reilly conference.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's focus our efforts on putting together a great set of talks,</div><div>and trust ourselves to offer to proper respect to each other.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I truly hope that you are right; that said it's worth noting that the gist of the post Sam mentioned[1] is that we may not perceive problems because we might not be able to easily recognise them.</div><div><br></div><div>It's hard to ask these kinds of questions directly ("You - there - do you feel inhibited from contributing to our open community? Oh? Why?"), but at the very least it's good to be publicly thinking about them.</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="https://sindeloke.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/37/">https://sindeloke.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/37/</a></div></body></html>