If You Evangelize It, They Will Come

January 4, 2006 2:05 pm General

During the recent Solaris Desktop Summit, I re-echoed one of my basic gripes about open source communities. So often it as much about the people and personalities as it is about the technology. Don’t get me wrong, technology is important, but what’s the point in technology if you don’t have the right channel to advertise it, the people evangelize it. So it’s wonderful to see that the Netbeans dudes are groking that need, and even more so to see Roumen in that role, and taking on a community manager.

The OpenSolaris dudes have grokked it as well, and I’d love to see the Java guys grok it, with deep respect to James for what he’s done.

The reason so many of these communities thrive are because of enigmatic leaders, excited about the technology they’re working on. Everyone wants a role model – and as Jeff would say, stand up, and be the signal.

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