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Weblog: Can a Community Create a BPX Book?

Subject: "proactive" Intelligent design and member selection

Date: 2008-05-29 19:16:48

From: Rodrigo coutinhoBusiness Card

Adding to the previous points of other contributors, the expected end result is quite clear (a "Book") and the main point of discussion should be the "path" to be taken by the community to achieve that end product. By the proactive intelligent design I mean the "active" guidance on the path selection. While the process can be severely biased towards a particular school of thought the interesting aspect is the selection of members and their likely patterns of contribution based on interest, skill and availability.
Having said all that, ifthe overall system can converge the end result will be as diverse and valuable as initially expected. However, if the system or community participation diverges then the end result is be only an extension of the main author (just as a normal book this days) and the community will contribute no more than just a regular opnion group as in movies and product releases.
Since this is my first post I can not evaluate how this particular community will behave to put together this book but I've seen both convergence and divergence in action on different environments.

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Weblog:		Can a Community Create a BPX Book?
Subject:		"proactive" Intelligent design and member selection
Date:		2008-05-29 19:16:48
From:		Rodrigo coutinhoBusiness Card


Adding to the previous points of other contributors, the expected end result is quite clear (a "Book") and the main point of discussion should be the "path" to be taken by the community to achieve that end product. By the proactive intelligent design I mean the "active" guidance on the path selection. While the process can be severely biased towards a particular school of thought the interesting aspect is the selection of members and their likely patterns of contribution based on interest, skill and availability. Having said all that, ifthe overall system can converge the end result will be as diverse and valuable as initially expected. However, if the system or community participation diverges then the end result is be only an extension of the main author (just as a normal book this days) and the community will contribute no more than just a regular opnion group as in movies and product releases. Since this is my first post I can not evaluate how this particular community will behave to put together this book but I've seen both convergence and divergence in action on different environments.