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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 > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library