From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: whatever came of emacs conference, tutorials, get-together, etc? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:51:07 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <877gdu5e0r.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380830116 30223 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2013 19:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:55:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 21:55:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRozY-0001AW-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRozX-0001Rp-Qn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:55:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rWqlmUFOY7oWhTCO/xdElS68PWk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201552 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93821 Archived-At: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > whatever came of emacs conference, tutorials, > get-together, etc? Good question! I always want to meet and discuss with people that do the same as I (are active within the same field). But for whatever reason, this feeling is often not mutual. I was once active in a Linux community in my home city. Almost every day, I wrote short messages on their listbot, about Linux, shell hacks, Emacs, etc. After some time, they warned me that if I kept it up sending "odd material" (?) to their listbot, they'd ban me for "two months". It *never* cease to amaze me, when I go to the gym, people are happy to see me, and everyone want to train with me, etc., but when I go to some computer community, there are always lots of people who get very frustrated, "you take that techno-techno-science to the streets, punk!", more or less. I think a big part of the people, maybe 20-30% of any computer community has a destructive outlook on activity, and on life in general. But note that I am very aware of the 80-70% who are great, so no one should take offence if they feel in their hearts they are not like the people I describe. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573