[TOS] how broad a mandate?

[Alexei Fedotov]

> Such questionable presentation would ruin a career if any public
> spokesman.

Here I'm talking about the case described at [1], [2] in your initial post.

2009/4/30 Alexei Fedotov <alexei.fedotov at gmail.com>:
>> Given all of that, should we also
>> cover equity issues, such as why gender ratios in open source are much
>> worse than they are in the industry as a whole (where they are in turn
>> worse than in most white collar sectors)?
>
> Hello Greg,
>
> Assuming we are discussing introductory course on open source ways, I
> don't think netiquette or cultural issues should be covered there.
> Why? Such questionable presentation would ruin a career if any public
> spokesman. Thus, I think the open source teacher is to concentrate on
> the specific communication issues, and recommend his students
> attending writing and public presentation courses (and reading books)
> at the same time instead of touching common issues in his lectures.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Greg Wilson <gvwilson at cs.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> [Disclaimer: I'm not trying to make trouble or raise temperatures in this,
>> just trying to get a feel for what participants in this list think is in
>> scope.]
>>
>> It's pretty clear that materials for teaching open source have to talk
>> about licensing, which I believe necessitates discussion of the wider
>> social context of copyright vs. file sharing, software patents, free
>> speech, etc.  Discussions of open source "in the large" also often touch
>> on the needs of developing countries.  Given all of that, should we also
>> cover equity issues, such as why gender ratios in open source are much
>> worse than they are in the industry as a whole (where they are in turn
>> worse than in most white collar sectors)?  Incidents such as Mike
>> Gunderloy's resignation from the Rails Activists group [1] over the
>> responses to Sarah Allen's complaints about GoGaRuCo [2] mean that
>> students are going to encounter the question; should we be trying to give
>> them context?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
>> [1] http://afreshcup.com/2009/04/28/a-painful-decision/
>> [2] http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
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With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями,
Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов,
http://www.telecom-express.ru/
http://people.apache.org/~aaf/
http://harmony.apache.org/
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/