On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:13 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With this in mind, the goal of creating new mailing lists is not to > fragment the existing community. It is to create footholds for other > communities to develop around the central learning platform.
It's about economies of attention. Clay Shirky and Yochai Benkler are probably the most insightful thinkers/writers on the matter. The bottom line is (in my reading and experience): - do not split the meeting point until the signal/noise becomes uneconomic for _most_ (not just for a loud minority) - do use tools that help individuals forage information better, so that the split point happens later in time In any case, communities are fragile and this is risky. Build up your own community and then try to split it. Splitting the lists built around laptop.org is going to be a lose/lose scenario, and you are playing with a social environment that has strong cohesion around laptop.org . In some aspects, it's like proposing a split in a political party. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
