"community"

[brainwane]

Let's not call things communities that are industries, or projects, or workplaces, and that aren't communities.

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[wohali]

Some industries are especially guilty of this, like "IC".

Workplace community is the sort of group-think that terrifies me in every form. You might have seen the lambasting of one company this week for an inappropriate careers/culture webpage.

Projects in your list gives me pause. For OSS the line is blurry for me, but, I think an OSS project becomes a community when people hang together, virtually or in person. When it becomes more than just some rando on the other side of a pull request. The other thing I think of is the PM side of me, who says that a project is defined as "a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service". So if it's temporary, sure, it's not a community. A group of people that work on repeated projects are probably a community. I'm curious your thoughts on this one.

projects & communities

[brainwane]

"IC" -- integrated circuits? Not sure I know.....

I'm so behind on replying to comments here that I have entirely forgotten which company was particularly on notice in March, but I feel like there's probably another one just around the corner.

I think sometimes a particular project can give rise to a community. I tried to word what I said carefully -- "and that aren't communities" -- because sometimes projects are communities. I probably failed at precision in the service of concision! :-/

I'm not about to define what community is or isn't .... I guess what I'm saying is, instead of defaulting to the word "community" when meaning "group" or something like that, I would like to double-check myself and ask, do I actually think this is a community? And I would like others to do so as well.