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Re: growth around the world

Ian Thomas — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:58:12 -0000

These figures probably over-represent en-US at the expense of other English versions. Often it is easier to download the US version than it is to download a specific localisation, so there will be lots of Brit using the US version. And are there Australian, Canadian and other English localisations?

Re: A Little QA Work

Ian Thomas — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:28:35 -0000

And whats with the blue area in the bottom left (or should I say right) corner?

How have the heat problems been showing themselves? I've got an original 1.42Ghz Mac Mini that often gets left doing Folding@Home (distributed computing project) for hours at a time and I've not had any problems - but maybe my room is cooler?

Re: Open Learning and Growth Curve - OpenEverything

Ian Thomas — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:35 -0000

I think the key sentance in the above is:

"Obviously definitions of “open” and “how open” one is was up to each participant"

I think someone who has recently joined an "open" organisation will have ideals about being open, and see openness in what they and their colleagues do. Someone who has been in an "open" organisation for a while will have been bitten by being open and will therefore deliberately keep secret things that may have been open before. However they may also consciously publish conversations that may have previously accidentally happened in private (say, around the water cooler). They are also more used to their peers being open, and therefore more aware of the things that they are hiding themselves.

To conclude, I don't think it is reasonable to say that someone who has been in an open organisation for a longtime is likely to be less open than someone who has just joined the same organisation unless you base that on more than just their own opinion