Your message highlights the great truth that spirituality is not separable from our work as developers. We cannot rise to the pinnacle of our technical capabilities without developing in parallel our socio-psycho-spiritual maturity as individuals and as a community. Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, courageously inserts this idea of spirituality into interviews as a matter of habit by explaining matter of factly that the real issue on which Wikipedia rises or falls is Love--love for the world and love for the individuals in the community.
There was not long ago a great example of such a self-moderating LDS forum where serious (?) work was done in an atmosphere of spiritual maturity. On the SAMU-L (Scriptural Antiquities and Mormonism--Uncontentious) mailing list in the 1990s the tone was one of peace, forebearance, and reverence. So it can be done with commitment. Perhaps the parameter "Uncontentious" in the title was key; sometimes we need a little reminder.
Thank you for sharing a wonderful introduction to yourself and a wonderful vision for a new relationship between the LDS Church and the LDS software development community through FLOSS ideals. May we rise to the vision.
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Tom Haws 480-201-5476
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