By your reasoning, open source projects should never be able to onboard new contributors or maintainers. You seem to be suggesting that "collaboration" and "in

By your reasoning, open source projects should never be able to onboard new contributors or maintainers. You seem to be suggesting that "collaboration" and "interactions" are things that necessarily can only happen synchronously and via richer media than text. Even if you want to move away from OSS as an example, I'd point towards the centuries of intellectual discussion that took place via hand-written snail mail letters. Is in-person communication faster? No question. Is it the only way to effectively communicate ideas as part of a two-sided discussion? I should hope not.