[Theforum] community vs. corporations

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun May 26 05:56:34 CDT 2002


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On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 08:57  pm, Marlene Bruce wrote:

> If we were in your scenario, no we probably wouldn't be considering
> this, but if we had only 20 members we probably wouldn't be facing
> this problem either. This problem is because we're actually useful to
> a lot of people and have become popular. If we only had 20 members we
> wouldn't need to be supporting m.e.o. as a separate server (or need
> more than shared hosting for all of our sites), and we probably
> wouldn't be popular enough to have a b.e.o. and the bandwidth it
> consumes.

This is generally why we're having to do a lot of what we're doing now.

When you've only got 20 people, it's much, much easier to run the
organisation in a fast and loose way.

But it doesn't scale - as we've seen, mistrust sets in really easily,
which means you *need* more transparency and clarity of process, so if I
want to know how to get X done, I know I need to do Y. If I do Y, then X
happens, and there's absolutely no accusations of favouritism (positive
or negative) possible. Everyone's ass is covered.

Unfortunately, when you have a multi-thousand membership organisation
which has aspirations to being open (as opposed to one which is run by a
small number of people (or just one) in a high-priestish kind of way),
this goes with the territory.

Evolt.org is the former kind, which is why this group exists.

Cheers
Martin
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