Post #2530063

2026-04-16 14:12 UTC

Here's an example -- subtooted, because the person who wrote it seems like a fine, sympathetic person and I really don't want to criticize them personally: They have a project they've run for more than a decade and they want a nonprofit to take it over: "Why consider doing this? One reason is to ensure that [project] survives and grows. Another is to have it evolve according to your vision, not mine. Another is to be one of the orgs most on top of what's happening in the world of [field]."

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@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 14:15

This is a project that, like wiki, depends on volunteers to edit things. Do these volunteers have any control over the project? No they do not. It's up to an org to take it over so that the org can have it evolve according to their vision or so that org can be most of top of what's happening. If not? The heroic individual work over the decades leaves a heroic debt when burnout inevitably happens.

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