I'm new to Joyent. Three months employed. I'm not new to open source and open source foundations, though it's the first I've seen someone lump the "Eclipse or Mozilla" foundations together -- these organizations are vastly different.
I appreciate what I'm learning from many of the sentiments and ideas in this thread and from lurking these past months. I am having a hard time reconciling how a foundation moves Node forward. As an outsider what impresses me about the technology is the tight core and how pragmatic and beautifully de-coupled everything else is. I see few assumptions and lots of fresh thinking and energy applied to old problems. The same seems to be true of the community. One of my main worries was how confident, direct, personal and independent both the technology and community seems. This is a different type of leadership than I've seen and it made me uncomfortable. This has been put to rest for me -- for the most part -- as I've seen this complimented by deep technology and deep people. Foundations are a centralizing force and everything becomes complete, negotiated and appears egalitarianism. This benefits many projects, particularly where the members don't have the time, energy, infrastructure and most importantly commitment for all aspects of a lasting, success community. Of course, it doesn't change the nature of the people or the relationships. I'm uncomfortable with any argument that creating or joining a foundation validates the technology or unencumbers it. The technology reflects the community and the community the technology. There is no universal path for open source communities, and few tried paths for all the success of free software. The committed (!) in this community will continue to drive it with your choices in collaboration and creations. Thank you, Lloyd Dewolf lloydde, foolswisdom -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
