Am Samstag 20 September 2008 10:18:34 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'm fine either way :-) > > Initially it seemed a bit odd to me, that although I always call myself > "antrik" in all my Hurd-related an generally most of my online > activities, everyone addresses me by my christian name in email... But > by now I got used to it so much that it actually feels almost strange > when someone addresses me as "antrik" in email...
I know that feeling; I had that with RPG mailing lists :) > Well, while I certainly think that the students did great work, I'm > generally tend to be quite sceptical about effusive statements... > > More importantly, as I did the biggest part of the mentoring, it would > be praising myself -- so obviously I couldn't write it like that :-) I thought so (wouldn't have written the sentence if I had been a mentor, but since I was just a bystander, I could write exactly what I think. You *did* (and do) great work! > All of the others have been doing some work on their projects over the > past weeks. I don't know the current status though, as nobody came to > this week's IRC meeting... I hope people will come this week, so we know who's still active. > Well, it is mentioned in the paragraphs for the individual projects... I saw that, but I asked myself "What part of the information should people remember who just skim that page?" The answer I found was: * The Hurd is moving forward. * Google Summer of Code 2008 was a great success (there were several interesting and uccessful projects)! * GSoC increased the pace of the Hurd, so it will be moving even faster. * Participation in the Hurd has a big impact. In short: "The Hurd is active and rapidly improving - and your contribution will have a big effect." Since I believe that myself, and since it is part of the information in the paragraphs (just not shown prominently), this is just plain honest PR: "Show your strengths, else you betray people about yourself" But before I go on, I've got an important question: Is it OK for you (or do you want me to) try to get the Hurd PR a bit more effective? Best wishes, Arne -- -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
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