Ruby on Rails is a new and increasingly popular web application framework. Like many technologies today, it has an active community of developers and they have the customary suite of wikis, file repositories, email lists, blogs and RSS feeds. One thing that catches my eye about the Ruby on Rails community is its very active, [...]

Last week I posted a bit about technology stewardship, particularly community tech stewardship. Beth asked for a definition – a great question. So John Smith, Etienne Wenger and I batted one about for a bit. Here is what we came up with. Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community [...]

Although the whole technology for communities project comes out of our practice with specific communities, during gestation and birthing it’s easy to start worrying about how our thinking may have gotten far removed from actual practice. It’s easy to wonder, “maybe we’re just talking to each other… Maybe it’s a bunch of words that don’t [...]