Re: Why did so few GNUsteppers attend the meeting? (was: Re: GNUstep monthly meeting (audio/(video) call) on Saturday, 13th of June 2026 -- Reminder)

Hi Joseph,

On 2026-06-15 19:25:49 +0200 Joseph Maloney <[email protected]> wrote:

> I can absolutley relate to meeting trauma. I have PTSD from being 
> micromanaged in 3 hour product meetings twice per week lol. The 
> minute there 
> is a slide deck, scrum, I am out, I am not doing that lol.
> 
> For me personally I enjoy it's just a relaxed, social thing, more 
> like a 
> hangout or show and tell. But I do agree for public consumption notes 
> are 
> key. Perhaps the recorded part the show and tell could be shorter, by 
> just 
> coordinating who will show off before hand, and let the hangout after 
> be 
> unrecorded to make it more digestible for observers without becoming 
> super 
> formal or annoying. Just my 2 cents.

things got easier in the last meetings I attended, however I share 
this stress. Especially certain meetings were quite tense in 
discussion and remembered Work Meetings were you had the urge "if I 
miss it they do something without me".
Other times somebody shows something cool-looking but quick to do and 
you can just a small bug solved, but it was months of team work. This 
easily gets to the "impostor syndrome" like at work!

More than one of us has grey hair, when we were younger and students 
it was easy, but now we all have been more or less traumatized at work 
and we don't like any more kind of "stress" in a hobby. As much as I 
love GNUstep it can't push on strain.

Riccardo

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