<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">That calls for even more clarification :) How do you feel about it<br>
now, after two more LGMs? Have you become more like others, others<br>
more like you or was it a mutual motion towards each other?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Tough questions. I think (although I don't have much past experience to compare against) that in the last few years, there's been a lot of movement within the Libre Graphics community and specifically at the meetings, towards both the involvement and the inclusion of people who don't fit the traditional developer role. For me, that's meant that I've experienced an awful lot of interest in what I do as a designer/artist/user/whatever and have also found others who share my own outlook. Not only that, but I've noticed (again, in my limited experience) more and more involvement from people who are not the stereotypical 30+ white man many people might think of in conjunction with F/LOSS. <br>
<br>At the same time, it's almost impossible for me to distinguish whether I've become accustomed to the community or whether it's shifted. Although I think it's a fair bet to say that there's been some of both. The important thing here, as Helen pointed out, is that, in all this, I'm an example of someone who, while at first alienated and put off, eventually persevered and came to know the community for the generally nice and inclusive place it is. The worrying possibility here is that maybe there are lots of other people who feel that outsiderness and never get beyond it, depriving them of the opportunity to discover the depth of opportunity available in the community and also depriving the community of their potential contributions. <br clear="all">
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