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yep in particular because the article starts with an explicit statement about addressing a non-technical audience. Pro-tip, if you do that, don't try to sound l

yep in particular because the article starts with an explicit statement about addressing a non-technical audience. Pro-tip, if you do that, don't try to sound like you're on a crusade. >Now imagine that countries besides the US start doing it, inspired by the US’s success (and I think it will be a resounding success). and on this point, I had personal experience with a project like this when Munich switched to open source software, which made quite a bit of noise, but in the end it was kind of a failure. And people still argue about the politics of it, but from talking to a lot of city workers personally there were just a lot of interoperability issues, bugs, and people didn't know how to use new software. The success of these projects will come down to the most mundane thing imaginable, whether a lot of white collar workers can get their job done, not some Dune style jihad.

hutzlibu 5y ago
"starts with an explicit statement about addressing a non-technical audience. Pro-tip, if you do that, don't try to sound like you're on a crusade" But when speaking to a technical audience the crusade style language is allright? I would disagree, except if it is not meant too serious.
- Barrin92 5y ago
  when you're speaking to an in-group who is familiar with the sort of personalities and attitudes and culture you get the context and the quirks and everyone moves past it so yes it doesn't really matter, if you know the sotware/hacker culture, you take weird attitudes with humor by default because people have always been a little bit odd. When you communicate to an outside group it's a different thing however. by the way the fact that this nuance of being able to speak differently in different social circles is increasingly lost and replaced with PR department speak everywhere is pretty bad.
  - gjs278 5y ago

hutzlibu 5y ago

"starts with an explicit statement about addressing a non-technical audience. Pro-tip, if you do that, don't try to sound like you're on a crusade" But when speaking to a technical audience the crusade style language is allright? I would disagree, except if it is not meant too serious.

Barrin92 5y ago
when you're speaking to an in-group who is familiar with the sort of personalities and attitudes and culture you get the context and the quirks and everyone moves past it so yes it doesn't really matter, if you know the sotware/hacker culture, you take weird attitudes with humor by default because people have always been a little bit odd. When you communicate to an outside group it's a different thing however. by the way the fact that this nuance of being able to speak differently in different social circles is increasingly lost and replaced with PR department speak everywhere is pretty bad.
- gjs278 5y ago