technical vs. community – For some weeks now, some of us have been talking about cultivating the “administrative and appreciative” sides of governance on Bowen Island. The “commissioned and community” sides. Extending and expanding the practice of OpenSpaceTech and cultivating consciously and intentionally “inviting community.” The McKnight lines about Systems and Care quoted some days ago popped up in this conversation.
Now I find similar discussion blossoming on the MeatballWiki, a wiki for wiki-makers, including programmers. In WhyWikiWorks, they talk about “technical vs. community” solutions, as they consider what they as programmers must do for users and what the community of users must do for themselves.
They have another whole page devoted to BarnRaising and refer to it often to ground the work they are doing in developing the tools for cultivating community. As I love the metaphor and the process of wiki, it’s not surprising that, I signed up immediately for the real live July 12th barn raising posted in the GlobalChicagoCalendar.