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 ...