rv's techblog: some kind of blog

Here's an email I sent earlier to advocacy-discuss

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Hey everyone

I've been doing a lot of thinking since my last blog post and I've realized that out of N different ways of expressing an idea, I ended up choosing the worst one.

I'd like to apologize for being unproductive and letting the frustration of not understanding the reasons why certain paths are taken get the best of me. First time this happens in ~12 years participating in different communities, it won't happen again.

Rafael

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I sincerely regret writing that post so negatively, and consequently burying the ideas and suggestions that I could've expressed more openly. I hope I haven't burned the bridges I worked so hard to build. But the post is out there, there's no point in removing it. I'm learning here.. and now that I realize my mistakes, I would never leave this unfinished.

I was glad to see the suggestion for a mascot contest. It made me understand something I had heard previously from coworkers at Sun, that it has been difficult to move from a closed to an open source environment. Being so used to open source, I had never completely understood that.

As much as doing things openly, in this case a contest, seems natural and obvious to me, it may be very far from the day to day others are used to - and to demand a fast transition is simply unrealistic.

Learning..