- Trade Perfect Product for Perfect Process. Open source communities are always a bit broken ... and that's good. You have to learn and grow together in order to become a community.
- Centralize Resources, Decentralize Contributions. Enable people to own their own, promote and share their own work, but use a central place to store and share it.
- Trust Community, not Authority. "Screw roadmaps", they kill innovation, just let people work on what they think is right. TRUST = currency. Make trust flow and you empower folks.
- Trust Gates, Not Gate Keepers. Design tools and processes that allow new members to join easily, create community identities, converse, and contribute.
- Public Ownership. Make decisions 100% transparent. Do everything online, avoid private conversations, all decisions are public. Be authentic, be honest.
- Leadership is not Management. Telling people what to do does not build a learning organization. Instead get people together and get out of their way. He quoted Clay Shirky "Replace planning with coordination."
Dries' Vision for Drupal - a School Restructuring Model?
Thinking about my work with schools in transition, I keep coming back to the keynote Dries gave at Drupalcon DC. The idea that new technologies enable new ways of working that make bureaucracy obsolete is an old story in the software world, but public schools are just getting wind of it.
Stormy Peters was there, and captured his keynote with stunning alacrity in her post, Dries Buytaert's rules for creating a great community. I'll summarize the most relevant points:
- Learning 2.0
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