PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development

[Kay Schluehr]

Anna Ravenscroft wrote:

> Interestingly enough, the quote of the day from Google on this email was:
>
> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
> Margaret Mead

Commitment. Some individuals do the actual changes but others have to
commit to make these changes effective. I've no indication in human
history that groups are innovative or that they produce anything
compelling new. Sometimes they support ventilation or being busy with
"conservative innovation" or other oxymoronic activities. They serve a
critical function but are most of the time uncritical to themselves and
critical to everything and everyone else who is not using their own
code(s). Identifying the enemy is still the prime function of the
political and politics is all about groups. In this simple social
scheme the "hero" indicates the border. The hero acts outside of the
order of the group/society but the society uses the hero to indicate
its own interior in some kind of hegelian twist: the hero is the
otherness defining the self. The hero is the radical other supporting
the groups identify. At best the hero becomes the prince/souvereign of
the group and the group identifies itself as its knights. So the whole
truth about "changing the world" might be just slightly more complex.

Never thought having a small philosophical conversion with Margaret
Mead beyond time and space. So many thanks to great Google and its
devotees. 

Kay