Treat other developers, even (especially) new developers, like peers to the process

Kid you not, i don’t remeber if it was Zak Greant or Brian Behlendorf, having said that. (think was Brian ‘cuz of the timestamp the original photo has).
Open source community meetings are not toxic, rather hallucinating.
You go in, as a passionate user committed to absorb a lot more than your 7 AM wakeup, 2 AM sleep-out and an almost 12 hour eye-balls marathon across the screen would predict you will be. And you think. Oh boy you think. What you’ve missed, what you’re going to miss in the next 5 years, what have you accomplished and were are you on the bleeding edge of technology.
And you gasp. Oh boy you gasp a lot.

But a lot of these guys were also committed to take us to another level.

Atley Jackson: It's like a little boy's nursery school I've come upon here. (Gone in 60 seconds)

Some of us got it, some of us didn’t. I think most of the future crew did.
It’s all about being humble, sharing, respectful and passionate.

Have you spotted this before?

Jim Willis had a double-indestructible point on this. Nevertheless he speaks from the other side of the barrier, but still, i bet there is a long count for sleepless nights and anxiety. Congratulations Jim! Very proud of the LAMP stack lighting up a proprietary solution.

Wake up! Maybe it’s time to act. Why? Because you can!
I had always believed in the six degrees of separation. Lucian, Zak, Brian, Jim, advocated it with strong arguments. There is nothing to do more. Just look around you. At maximum 5 hops from you there is a strong willing to transform