Andy Mabbett wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe > Andrieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > The only real authority is the autocratic role played by Ryan and > >Tantek. > > (!) Which seems to contradict your previous comments, above > (and to support mine).
It only contradicts to the point that Ryan and Tantek prevent the wiki and email from operating in a fluid manner. For the most part, our dictators have been pretty reasonable at trying to keep things functional and on topic. Sincerely, I thank all the founding peerage who brought this effort into being. It's amazing what has become of the effort and how useful the output has been. I've mentioned before that as we grow, we will find more and more challenges are best addressed by how we enculturate newcomers. (I don't know if enculturate is a real word, but it fits.) In fact, there is a significant gap in the organizational development behind microformats and the needs of a community of this size. For small groups, social norms and the moral authority of the founders can be an incredibly successful cohesive force. As those groups grow, they inevitably face problems of social scale. Clay Shirky talked about this very eloquently in "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy", a speech at ETech, April, 2003.[1] I highly encourage people who care about the growth of microformats to read it. [1] http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html This group has done a lot of amazing stuff. But for at least the last six months its been seeing more and more signs of social frustration. Read the article. -j -- Joe Andrieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (805) 705-8651 _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
