<br> <div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think this whole thing has degenerated and kind of gone to where it<br>shouldn't have... I don't think that Kaliya meant to be offensive at
<br>all, as she has helped with the community in the past as mentioned in<br>her replies. It's just that she's from a different part of the community<br>which is less technical and I guess because of that, it's sort of at the
<br>mercy of developers to help her sort through all the mess that goes with<br>software development... and I think she's been burned by it and is kind<br>of bitter at the developer(s) and not at the community... </blockquote>
<div><br>Thanks Sami, <br><br>I think this reflects my experience accurately. Thanks for reflecting. Generally the people here are great and I think overal peoples intentions and hearts are in the right place. Unfortunately. It didn't work out for me and I have a friend with a startup who has been burned.
<br><br>I think non-technical influencer's are critical and our opinions matter - they have a strong user advocacy perspective. We are also far more technically literate then regular folks and work hard to communicate in meaningful ways to developers. We ask questions and seek to participate and are not hanging around to be put down.
<br><br>I have put down Drupal for now and my project that I was working on. I am currently working on open standards in identity and focused on how we can get interoperability between systems with SSO to start with then people moving profiles and hopefully in a while social graphs. HOpefully those of you doing drupal development can participate where appropriate with your sites.
<br><br> Thanks.<br> =kaliya<br><br>ps. if you want to be a spelling nazi go ahead and ignore what I have to say but I am not going to be quiet. I am dyslexic and do my best. Yes I spellcheck my e-mails and sites and things still get through.
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