On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
elitism++. I suppose I should send you my resume before I send my next message to the list.
Nobody cares about a piece of paper. We care about what we've personally seen you contribute to our community. That's all that counts here.
You're free to have whatever cognitive biases you like, but its unfortunate that you judge people based on your flawed assumption that you have complete knowledge of folks' contribution histories. (Also unfortunate that you are so quick to make an ad hominem). I've been around longer than you think - why, I remember when Tim was still a wee php hacker learning the ropes. Probably I've been around longer than you, and most of the people who hack on mediawiki. I've been contributing to the projects since the early days in my own ways, which includes core research on quality and creating experimental technologies. I personally find contributing to mediawiki core dull, I like to do things which I perceive to be more interesting, and when I have a result, I present it at Wikimania.
Besides a bunch of code commits, how have you contributed to the projects?