Hi Sylvain,
On 26/08/2016 11:43, Sylvain Boissel wrote:
2016-08-21 19:06 GMT+02:00 Loic Dachary <loic(a)dachary.org
<mailto:loic@dachary.org>>:
When the audience was asked for their preferences, I raised my hand and happily
declared "Contributing to the Software and FLOSS projects !". Much to my
surprise this was quickly dismissed: "we're only going to learn about tools, we
create groups to use and learn about tools, not to work on a specific project". My
interest for the Software project is known to both Harmonia Amanda and Ash_Crow, to the
extent that I discussed with them my intent to recruit people to participate in the
workshop for that particular topic[3], well in advance.
And I answered you weeks ago that I plan to organize a fully dedicated workshop on this
topic later this year, involving local free software organizations like Parinux or
Framasoft.
I remember that, excellent initiative :-) I'm not sure how it explains what happened
during the wikiconvention though.
I was connected to #wikidata-fr today and read a conversation on this topic, involving you
and Harmonia Amanda (which I will not quote here because I assume this is not a good
behavior to quote from channels that are not logged). The general tone was unfriendly and
made me feel unwanted as a contributor. It also made me realize that my efforts to bring
more French people / organizations to wikidata were mocked and unappreciated.
As a volunteer I value good relationships even more than technical contributions. For this
reason I will distance myself from the wikidata French community. I hope to return in the
future when a more welcoming context has been established.
Cheers
--
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre