[OSM-dev] Greetings Openstreet Community : GSOC queries

[Ian Dees]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian,
>
> > If you don't have something helpful to say then don't respond at all.
>
> That's exactly what I was doing- telling the candidates something
> helpful, which is that they should do some research into the project
> that they're applying for before applying. Getting basics like the
> name of the project wrong is likely going to come off badly to a
> prospective mentor.
>

While you may have been attempting to be helpful, the point I was trying to
make is that the manner in which you conveyed that information was negative
and didn't present our community in a positive way.
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