Re: On what we want to support: travel?

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:29:43 -0500,
>   Dan Langille  wrote:
>> On 1 Nov 2006 at 20:36, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumach wrote:
>>
>> More users mean more resources to draw from.  When people get 
>> enthusiastic about something, they have energy to contribute.  In 
>> general, people do not go out of their way to contribute to projects 
>> they have no interest in.
> 
> It also means more users to support. Depending on the mix of new users,
> the overall effect on the project could end up being negative.

This is easily the saddest statement I have seen in this thread. Are we
so l33t that we are unwilling to help newbies come to our wonderful project?

If that is the opinion of this project, I am ready to move to another one.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

P.S. Thank goodness it is not the opinion of this project.


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