On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Genny Engel <[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:

> Guess there's no groundswell of support for firing Zoia and replacing
> her/it with a GLaDOS irc bot, then?
>

I'm in. "We've both said things you're going to regret."

[GLaDOS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glados> is the really-quite-mean AI
from the games Portal and Portal2]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Genny Engel <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Guess there's no groundswell of support for firing Zoia and replacing
> her/it with a GLaDOS irc bot, then?
>
> *Sigh.*
>
> Genny Engel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Andromeda Yelton
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 11:30 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia
>
> FWIW, I am both an active #libtechwomen participant and someone who is so
> thoroughly charmed by zoia I am frequently bothered she isn't right there
> *in my real life*.  (Yes, I have tried to issue zoia commands during
> face-to-face conversations with non-Code4Libbers.)
>
> I think a collaboratively maintained bot with a highly open ethos is always
> going to end up with some things that cross people's lines, and that's an
> opportunity to talk about those lines and rearticulate our group norms.
>  And to that end, I'm in favor of weeding the collection of plugins,
> whether because of offensiveness or disuse.  (Perhaps this would be a good
> use of github's issue tracker, too?)
>
> I also think some sort of 'what's zoia and how can you contribute' link
> would be useful in any welcome-newbie plugin; it did take me a while to
> figure out what was going on there.  (Just as it took me the while to
> acquire the tastes for, say, coffee, bourbon, and blue cheese, tastes which
> I would now defend ferociously.)
>
> But not having zoia would make me sad.  And defining zoia to be
> woman-unfriendly, when zoia-lovers and zoia-haters appear to span the
> gender spectrum and have a variety of reasons (both gendered and non) for
> their reactions, would make me sad too.
>
> @love zoia.
>
> Andromeda
>



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Bill Dueber
Library Systems Programmer
University of Michigan Library