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 <eric_at_hellman.net> 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
>
Received on Tue Sep 01 2015 - 14:31:25 EDT