On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: > Serious stuff here. Let's take a step back for a second.
I agree with you in principle, but not as black & white. Do you see the Open Source Initiative as harmful? They did it in part to control the branding of "open source" which is essentially what acquiring a domain is about, branding. This doesn't have to be able running a conference, but it should be about branding, IMO. When you get people with shared interest in an initiative together it works when the number is small (see "Dunbar's number" as reference) but as the number grows and new people come in without the crystal clear ethos of the original members things turn to chaos without some way to manage it. Sadly it's human nature and wanting it to stay the same won't make it so. Worse, someone who does manage it well will be able to co-op the initiative (i.e. the exec suites industry in this case) if it isn't managed by the existing thought leaders and I'd put you, Alex, Tara and a lot of others online here in that group. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm pretty sure the answer is not "do nothing." I also think we are all smart and capable people able to come up with an answer that works well if we put our heads together on the matter. Lead us. -Mike Schinkel Ignition Alley Atlanta Coworking http://ignitionalley.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
