The Way Community Should Be
After my last blog entry, I got a comment from someone who had apparently been reading my blog for awhile now (through #lugradio) and saw I was in Israel. I immediately got an invite from him to come to the Haifa LUG in order to meet everyone. Although I was not able to make it as I was in the dead sea (details forthcoming in future posts), this is most certainly indicative of what community should be. In the words of Yoni Rabkin-Katznell, referring to the building of bridges between software communities, “It’s what needs to happen”. Ya know what? I agree with him. Furthermore, it’s people like Yoni who make the virtual connections of the internet just as meaningful as those we forge in real life.
Next time I am in Israel, it would be my pleasure to accept his invitation and give a talk at Technion to the committed free software community of Haifa.
