Jono Bacon On Potential
Regulars of this ‘ere blog will be familiar with my abundant love of all things community. In fact, this has been a long running joke in the LugRadio world where I am accused of saying community way too often. Guilty as charged, m’lud. To this end, the always tiny and affable Gerv Markham sat in one of my recent presentations with a laptop facing me and flashed the word COMMUNITY on the screen whenever I said it. Cheeky sod.
The thing I find so exciting about community is the sheer potential it offers. I remember when I first got involved in Free Software and bought Slackware Unleashed, I opened up the book, so thick that I could barely pick the damn thing up, and when I started reading about the ethos and structure of the Open Source community, it got me really fired up. I was specifically excited by the fact that not only did so much potential exist, but the core tools for realisation of that potential (communication mediums, cost-effective hardware/Internet, free tools, intellect/skill) were all there. Potential combined with the tools to realise that potential is an exciting prospect.
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