Mark Shuttleworth is one of those highly effective people doing enormously important things helping something different to emerge and evolve in the affairs of human beings. Some will recognize Mark as the founder of the Open Source Linux distro Ubuntu. Ubuntu means community and there's a lot there. Here's Mark in a recent interview (at about 24 mins in):
"If you build something for people with people, you get the possbility of something fundamently different than what you get if you just build something yourself. That's not to say that communities are easy. We have to continuely defend the idea that left to their own devices, people will take issue with one another more than the world out there... We have to stay focused on what we're trying to do - reinventing the world. If we don't remind ourselves of that all the time, its very easy to allow ourselves to look inwards, and allow differences of opinion, differences of design and direction to turn into drama. The tabloid idustry does so well because people love a fight, people love scandal, people love bitterness and gossip. We must not allow that element of human nature to poison the fact that we we're creating an open, level, calm playing field for people who want to drive this agenda forward."
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