Should Problem-Statement WG Examine "What Works?"

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

actually Vint Cerf and Bob Moskwitz, among others, routinely wear suits.
In *our* environment, I think of *this* as a sign of an independent mind.

               Harald

--On 22. mars 2003 11:43 -0800 Christopher Allen 
<ChristopherA at AlacrityManagement.com> wrote:

> 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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