> On Feb 22, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
>
> Very consistently, at least at Red Hat, the white men over 30 agree with my
> perspective and EVERYONE ELSE thinks that more synchronous discussion venues
> are preferable.
>
Maybe because the current generation never needed to worry about the effects of
synchronous communication over geographical diverse ares, because
most/many/"all" of the people they collaborate with are in very similar time
zones. Or maybe its because they are always online.
Let's recall that IRC was a thing the same time that Email was. Heck, back then
we had IRC, email and NNTP, so it's not like we lacked for communication
alternatives. Email didn't "win" because it was all we had, but because it was
the best suited for the requirements we based things around: ease of archival,
ease of threading, and async friendly. I'll be honest, if NNTP was not such a
pain to install and maintain, I bet that would have given Email a run for its
money.
IMO, baselining a primary communication system that requires either everyone be
in the same timezone, approximately, or that everyone be online at all hours,
screams privilege to me. There are huge sets of populations that don't enjoy
the luxury of having high-bandwidth smart devices with them 24x7 in order to
engage w/ open source projects. Basically, by doing so, you self-select an
extremely privileged group and disenfranchise the other 90-95%.
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