Absolutely.  I am learning just be "watching" Tom... but I'm not gonna let it go at that!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span><strong>Randall (Randy) Arnold</strong><br />
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> ----- Original message ----- <br />
> From: "Tim Samoff" <tim@samoff.com><br />
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
> Subject: Re: Wiki Action Group: Cleanup "Task:Proof-read Human Interface Guidelines"?<br />
> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:51:04 -0500<br />
> <br />
> <br />
> Hi,<br />
> <br />
> > a big shout out especially to Thomas Waelti who has<br />
> > been a Ninja Wiki Warrior the past few days<br />
> <br />
> As a matter of fact, I was trying to record a video on my N900 about all<br />
> of the cool things about Maemo and I mentioned Tom's work on the wiki.<br />
> Unfortunately, not one second of the audio synced with the video, so I<br />
> couldn't post it.<br />
> <br />
> SO... Thank you Tom!!!<br />
> <br />
> Tim<br />
> <br />
> <br />
> Dave Neary wrote:<br />
> > Hi Randall,<br />
> ><br />
> > Randall Arnold wrote:<br />
> >> Anyway, I'll try not to do much damage as I learn... so for now I'll<br />
> >> limit my activity to the small, easy stuff.<br />
> >><br />
> >> For major work, Dave, should I just approach you?<br />
> ><br />
> > I once wrote: "Freedom is not having to ask permission". The wiki has<br />
> > this great feature called version control. Because of the hugely<br />
> > increased wiki activity this last week, it's been tough to track the<br />
> > Recent changes page (a big shout out especially to Thomas Waelti who has<br />
> > been a Ninja Wiki Warrior the past few days), but rest assured - if you<br />
> > do something very bad, someone will notice, and we can roll back or<br />
> > correct your changes. It's likely that we'll lose bits of the baby with<br />
> > the bathwater doing a deep clean, but baby bits grow back, usually.<br />
> ><br />
> > So, to answer your question, no, please don't ask for permission to do<br />
> > bigger changes, but if you feel the need, do let me know once they're done.<br />
> ><br />
> > What's that expression? "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get<br />
> > permission". I'm not suggesting that people go wild - use your<br />
> > judgement, and try to learn from your mistakes :)<br />
> ><br />
> > Thanks!<br />
> > Dave.<br />
> ><br />
> <br />
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