Craft as in Beer: The Value of Community
summary
Argues that deliberate community building — meetups, shared tooling, partial open-sourcing and local philanthropy — produces measurable outcomes: Linux runs on 97% of top domains and 92% of EC2 instances, U.S. breweries grow from about 8 in 1980 to ~6,300 today. Shows concrete builds — neighborhood public houses, flagship beers brewed with locally grown hops, a beer store that converts wine drinkers — and claims these experiments scale without full code open‑sourcing.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:15Craft as in Beer
- 3:38freedom to run the program as you wish
- 3:50freedom to study & change how the program works
- 4:01freedom to redistribute copies
- 4:14freedom to distribute your modified version
- 12:45craft beer defined
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