Online communities that are not about software or Internet
development are pretty fascinating samples.
We get a really different perspective on what it means to be "a community" because this is a community of people who build and maintain the things that allow the community to exist.
It's totally different when your community exists only to provide a place for people to talk about car repair, knitting, tarot-card collecting, competitive relay swimming, or experimental psychology.
We get a really different perspective on what it means to be "a community" because this is a community of people who build and maintain the things that allow the community to exist.
It's totally different when your community exists only to provide a place for people to talk about car repair, knitting, tarot-card collecting, competitive relay swimming, or experimental psychology.
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I read "cat repair". :-) I don't know if it's so different. You need a few enthuiasts who keep the infra running, and the rest of us are mostly talk. :-)
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-06-29T16:49:56Z
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NO. It's ONLY those five topics.
What I mean is that there are about as many volunteers maintaining the CMS and mail server of the local orienteering club and those of the fotball team, as there are maintaining the local LUG CMS and mail server. The rest of the LUG just hang around and talk about software, but I'm not sure it contributes much to the maintenance. *
* I'm not in a LUG and this is no comment on any specific people, just my guess or peripheral observation about how these things go. The university computer club is a bit different, they actually have a handful of admins rather than one, and most people on the board probably have root. But I wouldn't call it an online community, it's almost a makerspace.
* I'm not in a LUG and this is no comment on any specific people, just my guess or peripheral observation about how these things go. The university computer club is a bit different, they actually have a handful of admins rather than one, and most people on the board probably have root. But I wouldn't call it an online community, it's almost a makerspace.