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Title: Rust, or: how to run a community |
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Category: Blog |
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Date: 2020-04-09 |
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Date: 2020-04-08 |
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Tags: free software, culture, politics |
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Status: Draft |
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This will very much be an off the cuff post about community building |
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with insights that I've seen from various communities I was a part of |
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in the last 10 years. None of this is to be taken as facts, and is |
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entirely personal opinion. I do hope however that this post might |
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make one or the other think about how we run communities. |
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Really...I'm just bored and want to write something. |
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Really… I'm just bored and want to write something. |
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The communities I've been a part of involve Rust, Fedora, Moonscript |
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(a lua coffee script type), libgdx (a Java game framework), Nix(OS), |
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individuals that chose to collaborate on something larger than |
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themselves. |
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The reason why I'm such a big fan of e-mail collaboration via mailing |
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lists (both for conversations and sending patches) is that it |
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encourages this separation. And there's large projects that have |
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grown into little bubbles that still work on a shared "product", |
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without having to all do it in the same place: the Linux kernel. |
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The reason why I'm such a big fan of [e-mail collaboration] via |
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mailing lists (both for conversations and sending patches) is that it |
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encourages this separation. A project that forces people who |
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cross-collaborate to jump from tool to tool is just as centralised as |
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a project that only has a single communication channel. But there's |
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definitely examples of projects that have grown into little bubbles |
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that still work on a shared "product", without having to all do it in |
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the same place: the Linux kernel. |
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Whether you agree or disagree with my take on e-mails, I think we |
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should all be aware of the finite size that a community can have. And |
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at what point should we start to embrace community mitosis? |
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[e-mail collaboration]: https://spacekookie.de/blog/collaborating-with-git-send-email/ |
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