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brian d foy [tidbit@sri.net] quoth: *> *>there is a problem with analgies, though - people draw conclusions from *>them. for instance, "to cloister" means to exclude the world (or seclude *>oneself). this is definately not how Perl 6 should be perceived if we *>truly want a larger community to feel welcome. Well, 'cloy' is essentially an excess of something normally pleasant used like 'This triple chocolate brownie is cloyingly sweet'. So a 'cloyster' could be a surfeit of Perl people. A cloister is also an architectural term. Most likely it was meant in the monastic sense of self-sacrifice and introspection for the good of the whole or The One. This sense is fairly accurate as the people who either volunteer or are appointed to these groups will need to work well together for a very well defined goal. They will need to be able to make hard choices and sacrifices for the good of the whole rather than the few or the one. So, to depart from ones own personal agenda to focus on a higher one is, in one sense, an act of cloistering. I do believe it may be a bit premature to consider whether or not working groups will be inviting to a larger whole until there is something to form a working group discuss. I'd rather think of working groups as a support and communication mechanism for the core developers who will give us something to rally around. Bug fixes to vapourware are still vapourware :) e.Thread Previous | Thread Next