Merriam-Webster describes community as a unified body of individuals with common interests. I’m not sure that I agree. Every community I’ve ever been involved with has factions. In addition to common interests, they also have competing interests. And if no-one takes responsibility for resolving conflicts, communities can split acrimoniously. Keeping communities healthy requires management. But it can’t be left to a single individual.
Read MoreThis Tuesday, April 18 marked 100 years since the opening of “The House that Ruth Built” or, as it was more commonly known, Yankee Stadium. I was alerted to this fact by an article by Frederic J Frommer that I chanced upon in The Guardian. You have to make it all the way to the penultimate paragraph for it to become clear that the original stadium was replaced in 2009. In fact, it was demolished in 2010. But, like the Ship of Theseus, for some fans at least Yankee Stadium is Yankee Stadium. It’s a question of identity, and that, ultimately, is a matter of choice.
Read MoreIt may surprise you that the field of developer relations has been around for nearly 40 years at the time of writing. It started at Apple with Mike Boich and Guy Kawasaki on the Macintosh project. But it didn’t go mainstream until nearly 30 years later.
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