Code4Lib | We Are The Wind Beneath Your Wings

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> In general, it's not great to refer to people as nouns.  It's better to say
> people with an adjective, so the person isn't replaced or given just one
> identity.  I support not calling people coders or other noun.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Between September and November of 2008, the title attribute of the
> > Code4lib homepage was changed from "code4lib | Code for Libraries" to
> > "code4lib | coders for libraries, libraries for coders".
> >
> > Dave Winer, who could be considered the inventor of the blog, recently
> > tweeted about us:
> >
> > "code4lib: coders for libraries, libraries for coders. (I really hate the
> > word "coders.") code4lib.org <http://code4lib.org/>"
> >
> > As someone who feels that Code4Lib should welcome people who don't
> > particularly identify as "coders", I would welcome a return to the
> previous
> > title attribute.
> >
> > Eric Hellman
> > President, Free Ebook Foundation
> > Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
> > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
> > twitter: @gluejar
> >
>