Comments on: Book review: Personal Development for Smart People

By: Inspirational Book Reader

Inspirational Book Reader — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:55:42 +0000

Great review, I’ll have to check out Steve’s blog and book. I agree with your point on moochers versus contributors. Contributors are the people that inspire me to keep going my own way, moochers just make me frustrated and cynical.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:58:46 +0000

Man, you summed up my opinion of Steve / Steve’s blog pretty well there.
I bought this book a few weeks ago–haven’t read it yet since it’s still the middle of my academic term, but am looking forward to doing so eventually.

By: Andy Wingo

Andy Wingo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:55:30 +0000

Interesting writeup.
Regarding the anonymous commenter: I think that the post is quite *on* topic, the topic being, explicitly: “Planet GNOME is a window into the world, work and lives of GNOME hackers and contributors.”
I think this perspective is the consensus among the GNOME community as well. Certainly it is the opinion of the majority of the writers.
Finally, I do not think that anonymous commenters should have any impact as to your perception of what is or is not acceptable to any community.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:52:35 +0000

FYI, I took the Planet GNOME on/off topic conversation over to Twitter. (I don’t know how you point at a thread of conversations on Twitter or I’d link to it!

By: Stormy

Stormy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:34:24 +0000

You know, I kind of agree that it was really off topic. When my blog was added to Planet GNOME, I warned that there would be lots of kid posts. (I should have warned about book reviews too.) I was told that ok, even good. If that’s not ok with the readership, I’m alright with displaying posts just tagged “open source”.
But I think this is a topic that has come up with others too. I suppose I could do another post and ask the Planet GNOME readers to weigh in …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:37:23 +0000

Wasnt this post pretty off topic for planet.gnome.org? Could you implement some kind of tagging to prevent off topic posts from making it to planet.gnome.org