Gary Scarborough

Did you consider adding the Pi Camera so you can video chat with the kids?

My main gripe with what you said is this statement: "I believe all views and perspectives should be welcome if they are constructive and solutions-oriented. Feel free to rabidly disagree with me, but don't just come to me with complaints. Come with a desire to find solutions, and then we can work together."

Most times I see this attitude (and since I don't know you, lets assume you aren't like this) it boils down to "if you don't like how we did X, feel free to write your own solution." This is a sentiment that hurts communities more than anything. All that does is say that the community is really only for developers, everyone else can sod off. How do you build an open community with attitudes that exclude anyone who is not a developer?

In my opinion, the biggest hurdle to open source communities isn't the noise of the unhelpful, its the inability or unwillingness of main contributors who don't want to deal with them. How many real contributors are being turned away while they are noobs? How many potential contributors are leaving because of the way they see others being treated?