By: Jim
25 Apr 2008 1:55pm GMT > For me the offending part is the subject of that mail. Me being a woman does not make me a newb/n00b/newbie (or however that happens to be spelled this year). Same applies for several female linux users I know. You misunderstood. "For x read y" is a common idiom in the English language that means "take the following text, and substitute 'y' wherever you see 'x'". In essence, he was repeating an old joke about men not being able to understand women, but putting it in the context of him...
By: Anonymous Coward
23 Apr 2008 12:53pm GMT Don't be dissing Anonymous. We only do what is right; some person threatening to "CoC" someone due to an off-colour joke is essentially way out of line itself, since it is a threat of the application of administrative power to exclude. That threat alone is far, _far_ more of an act of aggression than any non-directed off-colour joke could ever be. Thus the lamented departure of this Caroline person due to her use of the EFF word is fair and just. After all, if one cannot accept that they might...
By: Rama
24 Feb 2008 5:59pm GMT Forgot link, Here with link... sorry: Check this out (link): http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/can-we-talk-here/ It's very heartfelt and compassionate; and really does say what Ubuntu really is about.
By: Rama
24 Feb 2008 5:56pm GMT Check this out: It's very heartfelt and compassionate; and really does say what Ubuntu really is about.
By: Nermal
29 Mar 2007 9:58am GMT I've been hit by the CoC before. After helping people for hours on the #ubuntu IRC channel - back in the days when it was less than 400 people or so - and having to prise actual problem descriptions out of people before even starting to offer advice I think I called a couple of people idiots and probably said "that package is a pile of shit" or so. *wham* Immediate Code of Conduct waving hand-wringing whinging bastards everywhere, and then a nick ban so weak I had to rejoin the channel and...
