http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/02/10/field-report-from-gnunify-2008/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/02/10/field-report-from-gnunify-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-49037 Random thoughts and serendipity » Notes collation … again Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:57:34 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/02/10/field-report-from-gnunify-2008/#comment-49037 [...] The post from Jono surprisingly echoes the thoughts crossing my mind when I was sitting through Alolita’s talk at GNUnify2008. Two things are annoying - [1] too deep and mechanical analysis of successful communities in order to learn the process or methods that make these communities successful and [2] not putting enough emphasis on the “social bonds” that glue the community together. For all the bling and fancy stuff, a community grows organically because of friendly out-going people who swap ideas, share stories. Friendship won’t really replace good community practice, but just methods and tools won’t create a community - either of creation or of consumption. [...] [...] The post from Jono surprisingly echoes the thoughts crossing my mind when I was sitting through Alolita’s talk at GNUnify2008. Two things are annoying – [1] too deep and mechanical analysis of successful communities in order to learn the process or methods that make these communities successful and [2] not putting enough emphasis on the “social bonds” that glue the community together. For all the bling and fancy stuff, a community grows organically because of friendly out-going people who swap ideas, share stories. Friendship won’t really replace good community practice, but just methods and tools won’t create a community – either of creation or of consumption. [...]

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