[advocacy-discuss] new book coming on community

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey ...

Jono Bacon at Ubuntu is writing a book on communities. Here`s the blog 
http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/. I`m looking forward to this. I 
said when we launched this project four years ago that we should look at 
other communities and how they evolve and how they build and manage 
themselves through various circumstances. I do some reading on this, but 
where I most closely touch other communities live is in Tokyo with the 
Linux guys and Web 2.0 guys and also with some photography things I do 
here. It has given me a fantastic perspective to juxtapose with 
OpenSolaris and bring to my activities here. I highly recommend 
participating in other communities (it doesn`t matter what kind, the 
point is to contribute somewhere).

However, what has been most gratifying about this community -- the OSUGs 
-- within the greater OpenSolaris community is that it has been growing 
steadily since Day One, and its personalty seems defined by global 
cooperation, not internal conflict. Have you guys noticed this too? I`m 
on all the OSUG lists and I see people talking about technology, doing 
evens, and basically just hanging out and hacking on OpenSolaris. Some 
are more active than others, some are more passionate than others, some 
are more technical than others. But everywhere I look on the OSUG lists 
I see that everyone is welcome. And the entire thing is just moving 
along at its own understated pace with relatively few resources and very 
little structure. In fact, we seemed to grow faster when we reduced our 
processes! Granted, we are still very small (around 5,000 people) within 
the entire OpenSolaris community, but revolutions have started with far 
less. And you have to start somewhere, right?

Anyway, check out Jono`s blog. I`ll be reading for ideas ... :)

Jim
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