Should Problem-Statement WG Examine "What Works?"

[Christopher Allen]

Bert Wijnen wrote::
> > Christopher Allen wrote:
> > Culture & People
> >     o   Almost every response included aspects of culture and
> >         personal values...
> ...
> >         o   "The hacker spirit (no suits, please!)"
>
> I think that people with a real open mind would not try to keep anyone
> out based on their dress-code. I have been a long-time anti
> "suits/ties" person... and I virtually never wear one. But getting
> older. I have learnt that "I dress how I want and you dress how you
> want" is the better phrasing... In other words... "the dress-code" is
> irrelevant. Just keep the "hacker spirit" and remove the "(no suits,
> please!)"

The quotes that I put in my presentation were direct quotes selected from the
responses that were sent to me. In fact, there were several mentions about
suits.

I actually agree with you personally, but I think it is relevant that for some
segment of our population they believe "no suits" is important. This means
either that we should explicity educate people that "hacker spirit" and "no
suits" are not related, or we have find some way to incorporate the meme tnat
"informal business attire" is culturally relevant to a sub-population of our
group, or we just ignore it and say that it isn't important.

-- Christopher Allen

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