Re: on community building

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024, Julieta Shem wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2024, Julieta Shem wrote:
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Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
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On 2024-03-08, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

We like to give customers a soft landing when turning
down services.  I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions
for good shell providers, places like Panix.

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That concept mostly went away 30 years ago with free Unix-like operating
systems that run on low-spec consumer hardware.
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"bare-bones" for the users I'm thinking of.  Some of
them might be able to transition to being a system
administrator, but a lot just want to run tin, pine,
mutt, irssi, tf, and so forth.

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To access some remote shell account you need a machine
that is internet connected and can run SSH. That machine
can just run a freeware OS with all the above packages.

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That's all true, but it seems that people like to share a system
together because people love to belong to a community.  In the
beginning, I believe such communities were mostly made of local people
and the Internet has sort of destroyed that.  I believe people still
long for these local communities again.  BBSs connected local people.
The Internet seems to have done the opposite.
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(*) On community building
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There's also this conjecture that a person can't deal with more than N
people.  The number I usually hear is 150.  In other words, human
communities should be small (and local).
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One principle I think about to achieve that is one begins a community
but others can only come through invitation.  If someone misbehaves, we
know who invited that person---the tree of invitation being public.
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Yes, we lose anonimity.  Perhaps anonimity is overrated.
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I run a community for IT-professionals and have been doing so for
close to 10 years. I think what you say is correct and that there
definitely is a need for it.
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If you don't have one, start one! =)

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That's great to know because I really am building one.  Mine is also a
community of IT-professionals, so I started it out by writing the very
software that runs the communication.  It works as a playground: people
enjoy hacking the very software that they and their peers use.
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Can I joing your community?  I promise to behave. :)

Well, if you're ever in Stockholm, sure you can! =) Everyone is welcome. But the community only exists in the real world, and no streaming from the events is allowed. The format is 3 lectures, one sponsored and two community ones, and afterwards there is always burgers and beer. This concept has worked well for almost 10 years, with between 20 and 130 visitors per event.