Greggles, Gregorybeans, Frijoles, Beans
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Bug and I are going to be busy this year. In the meantime, I found this somewhat funny post and proposed t-shirt. (content from web.archive.org, the original blog has changed and lost that post)
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An entry by Neil Drumm caught my eye today.
His basic summary of how to be a good member/developer in an open source project. Sure you can sit around and read the Cathedral and the Bazaar if you have a few hours to get a good basis and understanding. However, the points Neil makes are short and if you grasp the ideas and their implications, you grasp how great Open Source can be.
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You: One of the 20 million people who got an iPod or other digital music player for Christmas. You have tons of CDs, limited time, limited computer knowledge, and a little jingle in your pocket.
Me: A guy with so many computers in the house that his wife screams at him.
Together: We can make sweet, sweet music.
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Lots of the time, I'm just plain amazed by the intelligence of people in the world.
Some of the time, I'm really not.
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There's no good way to track bugs in Drupal unless you are assigned to them, so I'm keeping them here until I make that ability to associate yourself as an interested party...
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This is more so I don't lose it, but if you haven't read these yet, find an hour where you want to be educated and entertained, sit down, and read them. Maybe you're not a "type type mouse mouse" person, but if you are one or know one these are hilarious
First of all, there's the book "The Best Software Writing I" (publisher, buy)
Which is made up of online posts summarised nicely on Neil Kandalgaonkar's personal website
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I have a friend who does call center outsourcing. They have call centers all over the world - USA, Argentina, Canada, Philippines, India, all over! Naturally, lots of their projects are met with protectionism and lots of times when he tells people what he does, they get mad about how unpatriotic it is. When you get past that, he loves to talk about the regional specialization in the call centers - that they don't put support centers in Argentina because that doesn't suit the Argentine personality. Instead Argentina gets sales centers because that is their nature: be a little pushy and close the deal. Philippines gets more support centers - they are more culturally focused on pleasing other people. USA and Canada get the more high end/high touch calls. You might even call that "specialization".
