Practice of announcing newly added people

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:57:03 -0700 Danese Cooper <da...@gmail.com> 
wrote on a different thread:

...
> BTW, announcing each new member (not waiting for them to de-lurk) is  
> a Debian-Women practice that I'm trying to promote here.  Its one of  
> the first FOSS patterns they changed for their own list.  They have  
> found it useful (and more like how people actually act when they  
> meet) to notice each new subscriber and give everyone an opportunity  
> to say hello.

This startled me at first because I hadn't seen it before, but I like it.

What's "FOSS" ? A google search found http://www.fossweb.com/ .

  -jean

Re: Practice of announcing newly added people

[Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk>]

Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> In Europe it's better known as FLOSS: Free/Libre Open Source Software.

Only by academics and guvmint/EU officials, I should add.

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Re: Practice of announcing newly added people

[Anne Thomas Manes <at...@gmail.com>]

In Europe it's better known as FLOSS: Free/Libre Open Source Software.

Anne

On 8/20/05, susan wu <su...@arctic.org> wrote:
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> > What's "FOSS" ? A google search found http://www.fossweb.com/ .
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> Free and Open Source Software
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Re: Practice of announcing newly added people

[susan wu <su...@arctic.org>]

>
> What's "FOSS" ? A google search found http://www.fossweb.com/ .
>

Free and Open Source Software