So, trying this again: I posted a few preliminary thoughts this morning about the relationship between sustainability and solidarity. I’d love to hear your ideas, and in particular suggestions for things I ought to be reading.
So, trying this again: I posted a few preliminary thoughts this morning about the relationship between sustainability and solidarity. I’d love to hear your ideas, and in particular suggestions for things I ought to be reading.
@kfitz I wonder what plans Microsoft have for GitHub. Are “Kickstarter-y” options going to be available?
@kfitz Online communities seem to go through the stages Building > Growth > Fragmentation (the analogy would be schisiming Protestants). As for reading I'm thinking this is more about sociology than psychology.
@kfitz No reading recommendations, but a thought. Solidarity is not only across-space but across-time. Organizations and people have to return to thinking in terms of generations and passing the baton through time. This necessitates vision and playing the long game. How okay are we with investing our resources in a project, when the gains may only be reaped by the people who come after us?
@vega An excellent question, and a crucial point. Solidarity does require thinking beyond the now in ways to which many institutions are not accustomed.
@kfitz It's challenging to think in procreative terms. I think social sustainability is more than merely formulating a long-term vision for a project that goes beyond the immediate needs and concerns (which is challenging already); it's also transmitting ("evangelize"?) it such that successors will catch the passion that sparked the project in the first place, and then steward/mentoring those successors' passions and visions for that project. I suppose passion is a form of human resource, and organizations would do well to steward that alongside things like skills and professional development.