I'm really disturbed by Pat's problems, especially because they've been ongoing. I'm so jaded that half of me thinks this is a fund raising con.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:03:24 +0200 Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote: > I am in favor of facilitating the strong passion of people who like to > "just do it" ... Related: In the early history of wikis, removing barriers to entry to participation created a "be bold" philosophy using loginless editing and markup languages. Allowing everymen to contribute had the very rare (think Price's Law[1]) possibility of extremely uncommon folk contributing. Well.. what evolved for wikis is a shadow of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL): Coordinated cliques. Higher technical requirements doesn't allow that. We need the old mentor-mentee / master-apprentice concept back, for all kinds of reasons aside from the bus factor[2] that I'd drone on about for too long. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Price's law pertains to the relationship between the literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors. Thus, if 100 papers are written by 25 authors, five authors will have contributed 50 papers. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor A measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus". _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
