Community and walled gardens
How can we build a truly open community if we are hiding in walled gardens all the time
My real work is people. In New Zealand I poured myself into the Wellington scene, running Startup Weekends and keeping founders from burning out. Now in Portugal, I’m doing the same in the Algarve — building not just events, but movements. I don’t want followers. I want tape-traders: people who grab ideas, remix them, and pass them forward.
How can we build a truly open community if we are hiding in walled gardens all the time
Last week I attended an interesting conference called [open source//open society](http://opensourceopensociety.com/) that brought together an interesting cross section of geekdom that I have not seen at a conference before. I had discussions ranging
i guess many of us geeks went through the one or other phase in their life when they felt themselves trapped in the system with no way out. "the system" meaning any kind of mental state that prevented a clear view on the situation.