Women and TLUG - a personal rant

[Colin McGregor]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On 14-01-15 07:53 PM, William Park wrote:
> >
> > Come on, guys.  This bitching about TLUG meeting is strange to me and
> > counter productive as group.
>
> Actually, no; it's very productive to constructively criticize something
> you want to see improve. In the link that Colin posted, it's written up
> under “Geek Social Fallacy #2: Friends Accept Me As I Am”:
> http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
> — read it, it's good.
>

Sorry, my bad, I first heard about the Geek Social Fallacy article via
Stewart Russell on Monday, and I didn't credit him. Bottom line though,
there are points in that article that should be driven home to a GTALug
(and several other geek groups) audience (sad but true).

I often attend the GTALug board meetings, even though I am not a board
member. It is my hope that at the next board meeting GTALug will adopt a
formal code of conduct and then be prepared to enforce the code...

So, while I know the TLUG directors have tried their best, I have to say
> that the new room at Ryerson is definitely sub-standard. In the days of
> pretending to be associated with UofT, at least the rooms were big
> enough that the annoying back-channel chatter didn't prevent you from
> hearing everything.
>
> > People come to the meeting because they
> > want to learning something, and people don't come to the meeting because
> > they have nothing to learn.
>
> While TLUG has a roster of genuine subject matter experts who are a joy
> to listen to, there are a number of folks at meetings who - maybe - just
> come to give their 2¢ on whatever topic is being presented. I understand
> that it's sometimes hard to contain one's natural exuberance about
> sharing knowledge, but it's better to be kind than correct, so we should
> strive to remember that a presenter is just giving their experience of
> their way of running their system. It may be vastly different from the
> way we'd do it, but if it works, good!
>
>  Stewart
>
> (who may have occasionally used “cat file | …”, but is yet to run out of
> processes to do so)
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