On Wed, 2 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: > I'm off to a doctor's appointment right now. I hope to be back in > time for the conference call, but if not, I hope some time will be > spent talking about the communities that might be too *big* to have > focus, such as the "networking" community. > > Much of the clean-up effort to date seems to have been focussed on > merging together communities that are too small/narrow, but I think we > have the same kind of problem with too-big ones. A community that > could sponsor "everything" ends up in fact directing "nothing."
This strikes me as very compatible with the stevel/bmc point that the best kind of community is one that is big, mature, and vibrant around something (an industry technology, a Solaris feature, etc.) in an organic kind of way. It would seem that Networking (for example) is such an immensely broad and general "thing" it's not conducive to that. Eric
