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The FU seemed somewhat elitist when it started. Maybe that detracted from the potential members?
by shiranaihito 18y ago
The FU seemed somewhat elitist when it started. Maybe that detracted from the potential members?
- there 18y agofrom reading zed's two articles about it, it seemed way too organized. something like this has to just evolve out of a few people meeting up, telling their friends, meeting again with a slightly larger group, and so on. otherwise you have all this meta-discussion about what the group's logo should be (why the hell does it need a logo?) and how meetings should run and what color the bikeshed should be, when all people want to do is get together, meet new people, and hack on stuff. why would anyone want to attend a meeting where you are forced to give a presentation in front of strangers? where's the fun in that? in the openbsd group, when some people want to create something new or hack on something complex, we don't create a wiki and an irc channel and take minutes on the meetings. we organize a "hackathon", invite the relevant people there, and sit in a room together and hack. when we get tired, we go out for beers and talk, then go back to hacking.
- bkudria 18y agoThis is a good point. Also, you can avoid the large public crash-and-burn that happened here. Growing up from a few people lets you test out ideas without failing catastrophically.