[Tfug] ubuntu

[Andrew Ayre]

Evidence of what Claude described is everywhere on the internet. For 
example the multitude of PC "how to" sites, individual blogs, multiple 
news sites, etc. These are all tied together with search engines and 
rich hyperlinks. For example blog postings referring to other blog 
postings, slashdot, digg, etc.

Andy

sitkaa at email.arizona.edu wrote:
>> the age of the centralized information/publication repository has passed.
> 
> Perhaps I am too old school, but that is hard to wrap my mind around.
> 
> How can you develop a system, no matter how distributed, that doesn't have an
> organizational theme, and expect it to work easily/efficiently?
> 
> Last night here at the U. a bunch of people with bicycles gathered and milled
> about. I asked someone who organized this event, to which the reply 
> that no one
> did. It just happened. And it continues to happen every Tuesday night 
> at 8ish. I
> hung around awhile to observe the process. Someone eventually shouted 
> out to the
> crowd that had a path that they were going, and to follow them. The crowd
> followed this person who took the lead.
> 
> I think that a central organizational theme is needed, no matter how loose the
> association, if decisions are to be made. For instance, (Mr. Linus?) acts as a
> benevolent dictator. The real question (for me) is how to organize the themes.
> I don't have the technical know how to lead such a project, but I think it
> would be useful, even if outdated in modality.

-- 
Andy
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