Re: Being nice to introverts/the highly sensitive (was Re: "Breaking Cliques at Events")

2017-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Sean Whitton Hi folks, > Given the above, at DebConf17 -- my first free software conference -- I > sometimes worried that I had imposed myself on others by > enthusiastically and expectantly introducing myself and asking them > about themselves. By 'expectantly' I mean that I approached them

Re: "Breaking Cliques at Events"

2017-12-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
Christoph Biedl writes: > Use the key signing not just for ID and fingerprint validation - talk > to each other, ask for involvement in Debian, why you came to the event > etc.etc. This also improves your memory whose keys you've signed.ยน Indeed. I know it drove some people crazy, but this is w

Re: "Breaking Cliques at Events"

2017-12-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
Chris Lamb wrote... > The rule is: For every year you have attended the event, you should > try to meet that many new people each day. This smells like a pyramid scheme, aren't these illegal? > :) Ditto. However, cliques isn't one of the bigger problems of a DebConf. They do exist but I d

Re: "Breaking Cliques at Events"

2017-12-12 Thread u
Hi! Russ Allbery: > u writes: > >> Now, I've read in at least one answer here that it makes people get out >> of their comfort zone to talk to other humans. (I think everybody has >> had at least one moment in their life where they felt something similar. >> Hopefully, this is not an all-time sta

Re: Being nice to introverts/the highly sensitive (was Re: "Breaking Cliques at Events")

2017-12-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hey Sean On 12/12/2017 08:03, Sean Whitton wrote: > Given the above, at DebConf17 -- my first free software conference -- I > sometimes worried that I had imposed myself on others by > enthusiastically and expectantly introducing myself and asking them > about themselves. By 'expectantly' I mean