### Editor's Note ### Greetings, folks—and a hearty "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" to the open organization community! Four years ago this week, our wonderful community was born. Jim Whitehurst's _The Open Organization_ was finding its way onto bookshelves, and eager readers were beginning to assemble at Opensource.com to share their reactions and discuss their perspectives. Four years later, that conversation shows no signs of abating.
I hope you'll indulge me and a few other community members as we seize the opportunity to reminisce a bit in today's retrospective piece. Please enjoy, and feel free to leave your own reflections in the comments or on our list. And congratulations, once more, to a community that has achieved a simply staggering amount in such relatively short order. Here's to another four, forty, or four hundred! –B ### New Today ### Bryan Behrenshausen: "Aging in the open: How this community changed us" https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/6/four-year-celebration red.ht/30Rrug5 Sample social media: "If a community is the nucleus of all those reactions that catalyze innovations and breakthroughs, then unpredictability and serendipity are its fuel." Celebrating #TheOpenOrg community, four years on: red.ht/30Rrug5 "No one could have predicted it. No one could have planned for it. We simply do our best to keep up with it." @semioticrobotic on #TheOpenOrg community after four years: red.ht/30Rrug5 "Every day brings novelty. Every correspondence is packed with possibility. Every interaction reveals undisclosed pathways. To a certain type of person ... it can be downright terrifying." @semioticrobotic on the intimidating power of community red.ht/30Rrug5 #TheOpenOrg ### Previously Published ### Jim Whitehurst: "When the future isn't clear, don't make a plan" https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/5/planning-future-unknowable Views last week: 473 ### Traffic ### Total page views for the month: 885 ### Book Series Downloads ### Organize for Innovation downloads for the month: 5 Workbook downloads for the month: 5 Guide to IT Culture Change downloads for the month: 3 Leaders Manual downloads for the month: 5 Field Guide downloads for the month: 1 ########## _______________________________________________ Openorg-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list
