[Foundation-l] It Is not Us

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Tue Jun 28 10:26:24 UTC 2011


> Hoi,
> I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality.
> In
> my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced
> projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support special
> projects. We need to.
>
> Social networking in our context will not be a Facebook, a Twitter or an
> IRC. It will have the parts that we need and it will support our
> activities.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM

I always go back to the userbox controversy when I think about this. What
would we look like if we had not only embraced userboxes but created a
complex system of user categories based on them?

Fred





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