- Even a decentralist wants a system to work
- Provide the wires and power and let it go
- Provide the interfaces
- Decentralists are not de-connected
- not isolationsists
- not vandals
- community based on a shared platform
- rapid group forming, ridiculously easy group forming and problem solving, group comes together and disappears when the need is gone
- ad hoc!
- kind of like affinity groups from Henry Jenkins keynote
- don't have to stay together forever
- don't define ourselves in terms of communities, define ourselves in terms of ourselves
- we can use the best available tools whenever we want
- need to post our manifesto on the wiki
- centralists are like IT
- centralists keep power flowing, WiFi working
- what are great successes that we can cite
- scientific discovery is decentralized
- great art is decentralized
- web is decentralized
- The centre will not hold
- University of Calgary still only supports Netscape 4.7
- decentralism is Darwinian, 1000 will be culled out, some will survive
- the more centralized, the more standards get lower
- the Dodge Caravan ads hammer the message join the team
- decentralists think!
- D'Arcy: "could have gone down hill but it didn't"
- Brian, D'arcy, Alan met after doing a presentation on RSS, blogs and Wikis
- decentralized collaboration works
- decentralized, virtual collaboration requires a different skill set than real world face to face collaboration but the skillsets are complementary
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