[Ldsoss] Let me formally introduce myself...

[Thomas Haws]

Tom Welch,

Your message highlights the great truth that spirituality is not separable
from our work as developers.  We cannot rise to the pinnacle of our
technical capabilities without developing in parallel our
socio-psycho-spiritual maturity as individuals and as a community.  Jimbo
Wales, founder of Wikipedia, courageously inserts this idea of spirituality
into interviews as a matter of habit by explaining matter of factly that the
real issue on which Wikipedia rises or falls is Love--love for the world and
love for the individuals in the community.

There was not long ago a great example of such a self-moderating LDS forum
where serious (?) work was done in an atmosphere of spiritual maturity.  On
the SAMU-L (Scriptural Antiquities and Mormonism--Uncontentious) mailing
list in the 1990s the tone was one of peace, forebearance, and reverence.
So it can be done with commitment.  Perhaps the parameter "Uncontentious" in
the title was key; sometimes we need a little reminder.

Thank you for sharing a wonderful introduction to yourself and a wonderful
vision for a new relationship between the LDS Church and the LDS software
development community through FLOSS ideals.  May we rise to the vision.

-- 
Tom Haws 480-201-5476
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prepared to kill for" Gandhi
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