On Sep 6, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 6, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Think of an orchestra. We don't expect every player to play every >>> instrument. But we do expect a musicianship, the ability to play your >>> part well and in a way that fits with the others, knowing that you >>> might have a solo sometimes, but at other times you might be playing >>> harmony or even have a rest. >> >> +1. >> >> I will go further and state that I don't believe that this project is >> quite there yet. > > While the playing together metaphor is great, the orchestra metaphor breaks > because there is no conductor and no first chairs. > There are orchestras without conductors as well, e.g. the Orpheus Ensemble. And I don't think sectional leaders are a problem, so long as it is not exclusionary, e.g., your initial work on ooo-site demonstrates leadership (taking the lead) of a kind that requires neither votes nor titles. In other words, where coordination is required in a given task beyond a given level of complexity it is natural that leadership emerges. > Perhaps a better musical metaphor to aspire to might be Robert Fripp's The > League of Crafty Guitarists [1] I hadn't thought of them for awhile, but I > saw them live about 25 years ago. A big circle of guitarists sharing and > passing on riffs. > > Regards, > Dave > > [1] http://www.thelcg.net/music.html
