It's always interesting to see something in its fledgling phase (hey, we're on a startup site…), so I'm very eager to see how they're going to cope with this.

It's always interesting to see something in its fledgling phase (hey, we're on a startup site…), so I'm very eager to see how they're going to cope with this. There seems to be some disagreement about how fast they want to grow right now, and how. While this is certainly nothing that will be topped quite soon (Berlin is probably the epicenter of their target demographics), they are on the map right now, big time. They still don't want to let some delegation or committee determine their program, but given enough growth I wonder how much they can stick to that principle. You're more likely to get bogged down with minutiae doing something that democratic, and less likely to get down to the very core (e.g. by the time you decided on how to avoid some gender-specific expression in the dreaded German language, your meeting is over). Either they'll adapt to more common party politics (which could be fatal), or we're going to find out if they can properly harness all our new technology. Getting from a party for the internet to a party from the internet…