What makes a community? Trust, Care and Passion: The Feeling of Belonging.
summary
Describes a 35‑year CCC community and the Himalayan HX experiment that houses ~400 people for weeks with eight buses and shared bathrooms, built long‑range wireless backhaul antennas for Internet, taught kids using conductive tape, ran volunteer conference logistics, and even a cocktail‑making robot. Claims trust, acceptance and “safe to fail” culture let people take responsibility; recounts an election‑voting audit and related legal campaign that helps keep paper ballots.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:11Introduction
- 22:39Web of Trust
- 26:12Hackerspaces
- 49:39Conflicts
- 51:50Pseudo Leadership and Self Motivation
- 57:31Liquid Democracy
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