Keep Everyone In Sync: Effective Approaches Borrowed from Open Source Communities
summary
Argues that old protocols still win: teams use PINE/Alpine email client and NNTP/RSS because archives are accessible and messages wait for you, not the reverse. Shows tools and deployments: a bridge Jemaine for NNTP↔RSS, public-inbox storing mailing lists as git commits, a blogroll built via GitHub+Travis into one OPML feed, and a live setup using OBS, nginx‑rtmp, a poor man's mic array and floating‑comment software. Claims work scales (Dunbar 148 cited), spam filters remove ~20% of useful mail, and patches land in Alpine and public-inbox.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 4:43Dunbar's Number
- 5:33Distraction Everywhere
- 7:50Summary of Challenges
- 10:29Hacker Ethics
- 11:22Categorizer Failure
- 11:47Marissa Mayer
- 12:20PINE, Alpine
- 13:44Richard Matthew Stallman
- 14:17Lamby, Debian Leader
- 15:01Guido van Rossum
- 15:19Donald Knuth
- 27:03Information Handling Model
- 30:16Why do people love Email?
- 36:14Editorial Digest
- 43:13Weekly Meet-up Events
- 45:26Key Takeaways
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